From: "Hamaker, Charles" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 00:39:55 +0000 Maybe someone from PUP can tell us in this context, what their agreement with, DeGruyter meant at it's announcement shortly before ALA? see: http://www.libraries.wright.edu/noshelfrequired/2014/06/03/princeton-university-press-partners-with-de-gruyter-for-distribution/ I consider that announcement more important for both the present and future than this below, even though I agree with Jim O'Donnell's sentiment. Chuck Hamaker ________________________________________ From: Jim O'Donnell <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 18:44:12 -0400 New announcement from Princeton Press http://blog.press.princeton.edu/2014/07/14/princeton-university-press-launches-princeton-legacy-library/ They will monetize the backlist and offer the collection through "leading library aggregators" with Ingram as the primary provider. It will be valuable to have this list available in digital form, but the project reminds me of Tommy Lee Jones in *Men in Black* when he shows Will Smith the amazing technologies the aliens have brought. Showing him a tiny device that stores incredible quantities of recorded music (MIB came some years before the iPod), he tosses it aside with the throwaway line, "Guess I'll have to buy the White Album again." What we now call "content" is the gift that lets you keep paying for it over and over and over . . . I bought the White Album again myself in about 2006. Jim O'Donnell Georgetown