From: Wilhelmina Randtke <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:41:05 -0500 Dear Zac Rolnik (and other readers) Why do you think customers will want to buy the version of record? This is an honest question, not a challenge. With the types of reports published on nowpublishers.com , the only advantage I can see to going and getting a report direct from you is that it will be the most current version or the most current report on that topic. So, I can see each pirated report being an advertisement for different reports on a similar topic, but not a reason to go and buy that same exact report. -Wilhelmina Randtke On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:15 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > From: Zac Rolnik <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:47:28 -0400 > > Sorry for the late response to this interesting question, but I have > been traveling.... > > In terms of the piracy issue, while it is annoying for smaller > publishers we simply do not have the resources to fight it. When we > find a pirated version of one of our titles, we immediately go to the > source and they typically take it down, for it only to pop up > somewhere else. Very frustrating. So this is one issue where we try > and let the big publishers (who have more skin in the game) take the > lead and we act as free-riders. In addition, there are some who think > for a small publisher it might actually serve to promote our titles, > since most of our customers want to buy the version of record and > those who get pirated copies would probably never buy it anyway - but > might encourage their colleagues and libraries to look at it. > > Zac Rolnik > now publishers > > > ******************* > > From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:43:27 -0400 > > TED talks are very trendy these days, and often very interesting. > Here's an analytical treatment of the question of financial losses > through copyright piracy, a video whose URL has been making its way > around the internet in the last couple of days -- and I shamelessly > stole the link from one of these several lists: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZadCj8O1-0&feature=youtube_gdata_player > > This tongue-in-cheek presentation makes me ask: is copyright piracy > really a problem for scholarly publishers? Subscription journals? > Monographs? > > If so, how would we know how large the problem is? More than that -- > how would we know if it were big enough to worry about? See, what is > true in the video is that a lot of the estimates of future loss are > based on a future that isn't known. Anyhow, don't scholarly > publishers, at least of e-journals, expect some leakage and don't our > subscription prices pay for that? > > Thoughts? Ann Okerson