On Tue, 25 Jun 1996 sophist@UTARLG.UTA.EDU wrote:
>
> One other solutionis to just wait it all out. I don't think it will take
> 40 years of wandering around in the pulp desert before the pulpers die
> off or retire or whatever; the transition to pixels and the acceptance of
> electronic publications will come faster than we think. At least, my
> intuition tells me that this is the case. Whether that counts for
> anything, I'm not sure, but I'm counting on it and telling my pulp
> colleagues to do so as well .)>=
>
Now, my question is this: at what point do the economics of academic
publishing _force_ journals to accept and join the electronic realm?
Paper, binding, ink, mailing, etc.-- that's all really expensive, not to
mention the fact that libraries (the prime customers of most academic
journals, I would assume) are always hurtiing for storage space. So,
what I want to know is will there come a day when something like
_Pre/Text_ will have to go to a completely electronic format because
(among other reasons) it's too expensive to produce in any other way? Or do
traditional print journals come closer to breaking even and/or making a
profit than I think?
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*Soon to be at Southern Oregon State College in Ashland, OR*
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