25% and 33% of library budgets go to buying publisher's products, from what I have seen.
Another useful stat is for trade publishers, about 20% of their revenue comes from libraries.
in terms of supporting the long tail, the less popular authors-- think of libraries.
but publishers love to sue libraries: http://blog.archive.org/2020/07/29/internet-archive-responds-to-publishers-lawsuit/
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25% and 33% of library budgets go to buying publisher's products, from what I have seen.
Another useful stat is for trade publishers, about 20% of their revenue comes from libraries.
in terms of supporting the long tail, the less popular authors-- think of libraries.
but publishers love to sue libraries: http://blog.archive.org/2020/07/29/internet-archive-responds-to-publishers-lawsuit/
Re: Libraries are customers too
25% and 33% of library budgets go to buying publisher's products, from what I have seen.
disappearing 20th century
The chart showing the disappearing 20th century confirms your analysis. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/the-missing-20th-century-how-copyright-protect ion-makes-books-vanish/255282/ The full lecture is really good at showing the faults in the lobbiest's argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-DpfZcftI00
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