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SteveEisenberg · 09-08-2013, 08:20 PM

By the way, this eBook issue is a lot like the longer-standing Serials crisis.

To provide a concrete example, I just did a web search and found that a year's paper subscription, in the US, to the Journal of the American Medical Association is now $185 for a non-member physician, or other individual, but a minimum of $966 for a public library.

Have we considered that if publishers are forced to make the library price, and the end consumer price, equal, the new price will be intermediate?

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SteveEisenberg Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,444 Karma: 43514536 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: near Philadelphia USA Device: Kindle Kids Edition, Fire HD 10 (11th generation)	By the way, this eBook issue is a lot like the longer-standing Serials crisis. To provide a concrete example, I just did a web search and found that a year's paper subscription, in the US, to the Journal of the American Medical Association is now $185 for a non-member physician, or other individual, but a minimum of $966 for a public library. Have we considered that if publishers are forced to make the library price, and the end consumer price, equal, the new price will be intermediate? Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 09-09-2013 at 06:21 AM.