In message <3dfa103a55a44eda91f0619162573...@thhste15d1be4.hs20.net>,
dated Fri, 16 May 2014, Charlie Blackham <char...@sulisconsultants.com>
writes:
In the face of competition, does BSI still make enough money this way?
Only BSI staff and HMG know. I guess so, since we don't hear of any
major crisis in BSI funding.
Given that legitimate standards can be purchased in minutes via the
internet, how does (or perhaps "how can") a pricing policy that doesn't
appear to have changed for 20-25 years still stack up? (when we were
all buying standards from national body in printed hardcopy)
I suspect that libraries, including university libraries, government
departments and large companies buy more or less every standard through
subscription services. In many cases, this includes free access to
standards for at least hundreds of employees. The sums involved are
substantial but are not multiples of the 'one-off' prices.
The changeover to electronic copies is not complete; printing facilities
are still required, but on a smaller scale. Against the saving, the cost
of ITE hardware and services has to be offset.
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Nondum ex silvis sumus
John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK
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