Back in 2000, at a meeting at netLibrarys headquarters in Boulder, CO, then-CEO Nancy Talmey told a group of assembled university press publishers that one medium-sized university press had recently pocketed two sizable checks for its previous months ebook usage with netLibrary. One check exceeded $100,000. Could academic monographs really be so profitable? If it seemed too good to be true, it was. Within a few years, netLibrary was reduced from a campus in Colorado, to a few cubicles at OCLC. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]