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>From what they're saying L&W sees this as a significant amount of money, but I'm sure that, from a broader perspective, David's right and the amount represents mere crumbs. To clarify how these things seem to work . . . various of the spiffy new entrepreneural education projects bundle digitized sources and sell university libraries subscriptions to the bundles. As with any such operation, the universities pay the top dollar to ProQuest, Haithi Trust, etc. and a group like L&W will get a few crumbs. If you're a scholar recruited to such a project, you get even less. The actual value of making works available this way is debatable. It certainly provides a somewhat narrow access to a much wider variety of sources, and we all like the convenience of having the material online. However, if readers generally are looking for something at all lengthy, complicated or demanding, they almost always want to download it. My students almost invariably print what they download. So much for the paperless academy. I don't see this changing. What of the Collected Works that doesn't fall into this category are correspondence and short pieces, mostly of interests to specialists. I suspect that this will be most of what will be lost to the MIA. ML ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
