This is an interesting issue. I have not seen any mention of the struggle of the universities of the developing world to keep up to stocking their libraries. The cost of books is so high some of the libraries strain themselves to choose what they buy. Sukai Bojang PhD Student De Montfort University Leicester ENGLAND On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor@gmail.com>wrote:
Think this a great discussion. This may be useful, about paper vs. ebook costs:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/business/media/01ebooks.html?_r=1
And about the future of public libraries:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/digital-underclass-what-happens-when-the-li...
Personally, I´m worried about the prohibitive prices of North America´s books, wich makes another cultural barrier for the spreading of knowledge. Best,
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