I believe you're responding to someone else's point on this thread, not
mine. My point concerned the cost of digitizing materials for scholarly
use--not publishing and copyrights, which is an entirely different matter.
In any case, as Eric Holzenberg and others have aptly pointed out, a digital
simulacrum will only get you so far in a research context. In these matters,
I always seem to return to D.F. Mackenzie's aphorism about texts as physical
objects: forms effect meanings.
Edward Levin
Jack Kessler wrote:
ps. E.Levin: And libraries need not pay for the publishing:
publishers will, just as before. For now Google Inc. is a
publisher, and others will follow. Copyright which does not
accommodate the changes will rob authors of income, and bankrupt
publishers: so ultimately the almighty $ will change copyright.
All this is pace Mr. Joyce, who apparently does not need the $.