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"Small miracle" poses pricing conundrum for publishers and librarians

"Small miracle" poses pricing conundrum for publishers and librarians LOGOS "Small miracle" poses pricing conundrum for publishers and librarians David Whitaker Recently retired from J Whitaker & Sons, publishers of the UK's Bookseller and Whitaker's Books in Print, David Whitaker remains non-executive Chairman. He has made significant contribu• tions to the modernization of book trade distribution in Britain, notably through his lead• ership in the introduction of ISBNs and teleordering. After graduating from Cambridge University, he joined his family's firm in 1 9 5 5 , became a Director in 1966 and was Editor of The Bookseller from 1 9 7 7 - 7 9 . Whitaker continues to be an active proponent of E D I (Electronic Data Interchange). Publishers and librarians, having stabilized some• what, by law and accommodation, their long strug• gle of the '70s and '80s over photocopying, are now blessed with a new opportunity in the '90s - to use that experience to forestall another, potentially just as damaging, estrangement. T h i s opportunity arises from t h e growth of "CD-ROM Networking". A CD-ROM (compact disc - read only memory) is a small miracle. O n e disc holds some 550 megabytes - a forty-foot pile of A 4 pages, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Logos Brill

"Small miracle" poses pricing conundrum for publishers and librarians

Whitaker, David
Logos , Volume 3 (3): 159 – Jan 1, 1992
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Brill
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© 1992 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0957-9656
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1878-4712
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10.2959/logo.1992.3.3.159
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LOGOS "Small miracle" poses pricing conundrum for publishers and librarians David Whitaker Recently retired from J Whitaker & Sons, publishers of the UK's Bookseller and Whitaker's Books in Print, David Whitaker remains non-executive Chairman. He has made significant contribu• tions to the modernization of book trade distribution in Britain, notably through his lead• ership in the introduction of ISBNs and teleordering. After graduating from Cambridge University, he joined his family's firm in 1 9 5 5 , became a Director in 1966 and was Editor of The Bookseller from 1 9 7 7 - 7 9 . Whitaker continues to be an active proponent of E D I (Electronic Data Interchange). Publishers and librarians, having stabilized some• what, by law and accommodation, their long strug• gle of the '70s and '80s over photocopying, are now blessed with a new opportunity in the '90s - to use that experience to forestall another, potentially just as damaging, estrangement. T h i s opportunity arises from t h e growth of "CD-ROM Networking". A CD-ROM (compact disc - read only memory) is a small miracle. O n e disc holds some 550 megabytes - a forty-foot pile of A 4 pages,

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Published: Jan 1, 1992

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