The Lived Places Publishing Library Collection Model
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How Publishing Can Serve Libraries I remember well my first meeting with librarians concerning how they would prefer to purchase, and access content, and deliver that content to university patrons. I was introduced to a variety of access and purchase models that were based either on a subscription format or on a perpetual ownership format. Over the preceding 10 years I had worked in college textbooks, both sales and editorial, and there had been only one route to the student consumer: faculty adoption with student purchase through the college bookstore. The year was 2009, and the juxtaposition of the textbook industry sales model against the preferred purchase model of the library could not have been more striking. Come forward 13 years to the present, and while there has been significant change in digital textbook and courseware access models, the chasm between the purchase models available to the college bookstore and the college library remains immeasurably wide.
The Lived Places Publishing Library Collection Model
The Lived Places Publishing Library…
The Lived Places Publishing Library Collection Model
How Publishing Can Serve Libraries I remember well my first meeting with librarians concerning how they would prefer to purchase, and access content, and deliver that content to university patrons. I was introduced to a variety of access and purchase models that were based either on a subscription format or on a perpetual ownership format. Over the preceding 10 years I had worked in college textbooks, both sales and editorial, and there had been only one route to the student consumer: faculty adoption with student purchase through the college bookstore. The year was 2009, and the juxtaposition of the textbook industry sales model against the preferred purchase model of the library could not have been more striking. Come forward 13 years to the present, and while there has been significant change in digital textbook and courseware access models, the chasm between the purchase models available to the college bookstore and the college library remains immeasurably wide.