[Web4lib] Books Online: The Fee versus Free Battle Begins

[Sloan, Bernie]

Quint, Barbara. Books Online: The Fee versus Free Battle Begins. News
Breaks (Information Today, Inc). November 21, 2005.

"Now that all the busy book digitizers have done enough to create what
anyone would call library-size collections, they have begun to deliver
the full text electronically and to reveal how they plan to "monetize"
their investments."

Full text at:

http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb051121-2.shtml 

Bernie Sloan
Senior Information Systems Consultant
Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois
616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
Champaign, IL  61820-5752

Phone: (217) 333-4895
Fax:   (217) 265-0454
E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu