Oct 19 2005 - 11:23 AM
Libraries vs. Academic Publishers?
I came across this in the Washington Post.
"Of all the dangerous and dot-complex problems that American publishers face in the near future -- economic downturns, competition for leisure time, piracy -- perhaps the most explosive one could be libraries. Publishers and librarians are squaring off for a battle royal over the way electronic books and journals are lent out from libraries and over what constitutes fair use of written material."