Bob McDowall, The direction of e-books?IT-Director, November 23, 2005. (Thanks to LIS News.) After noting that "[t]o date, no prevailing business model has emerged for the development of e-books," McDowall reviews what users want and what publishers are willing to provide. Bottom line: don't expect OA to ebooks any time soon. On the other hand, McDowell doesn't even mention Project Gutenberg, the Open Content Alliance, and related OA initiatives.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/25/2005 08:50:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
