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Electronic resources (ebooks and emagazines and ejournals) costs are very puzzling. Vendors are frequently pricing the cost of these eresources over the print price in their sales to libraries and there is very heated discussion about it. Some of the publishers assign all costs (editing, marketing, etc.) to the e-version and therefore the print version ends up cheaper. Librarians are not happy about this pricing.
The pricing defies logic, but many of the publishers have a monopoly and practice take it or leave it pricing. I personally think they are on the verge of killing the golden goose.
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