From: Sally Morris <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:43:57 +0100 It depends, surely, on the type of book. Reference/text book chapters may sometimes stand independently. Other types of book may only make sense read as a whole and in the correct sequence Sally Sally Morris Email: [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: "Hutchinson, Alvin" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 13:08:40 +0000 If book chapter indexing and discovery became as standardized as article-level discovery, I wonder if we would begin to se the dis-intermediation of chapters from their "parent" books just as we are seeing articles being sold separately from journal subscriptions. I can imagine users identifying, paying for and downloading chapters instead of purchasing (or asking their library to borrow) the book. And aside from the bibliographic citation listing the book title in which the chapter appears, they might increasingly be treated as distinct publications. Just a thought . . . . Alvin Hutchinson Smithsonian Libraries