The Ebook Cargo Cult

Abstract

Libraries created the present crisis in scholarly publishing, and we are creating a similar crisis now with our approach to ebooks. We created the crisis in scholarly publishing by ceding control of an intrinsic library function, abstracting and indexing, a decision with inevitable consequences. Consequences like the present need to boycott Elsevier for its predatory [...]

Keywords

• copyright
• core vales
• ebooks
• fair use
• first sale
• manifesto
• scholarly publishing