Ahhh, but Peter Sheahan in his recent book Flip would disagree.  See the chapter on Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick Three.  His basic premise is to go with out-of-the-box thinking.  He couches this in "the only rule is that there are no rules."  Examples of visionary leaders of this type come from such places as Google and Apple.  The world is a changed and a constantly changing place.  Push the limits.

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GOOD
FAST
CHEAP


You can still have only two.

Michelynn




> > "Freely available" is not the same thing as "free."
>
>   I did not say that it was.

I see. I assumed when you countered the horrendouus $3,000 price tag with your previous offer "to make the chapters freely available on E-LIS," that you were negating the need for cost recovery. So is it the publisher's profit margin you think out of line?

> > Money still has to change hands at some point. And I see there are
> a
> > lot of organizations putting membership and other dollars into
> > E-LIS.
>
>   I am not aware of that. As far as I understand, CILEA maintains
> the
>   server. The editors work as volunteers.

Then CILEA is paying for the server space!!!! My point is, someone/thing is. Nice that CILEA can afford it.

And while E-LIS may be "freely available" now--discounting, of course, the fact that someone/thing is paying for the internet access by which each of us gets to the site in the first place--will it be able to do so ad infinitum? Let's hope so.

(Guess all of the other associations listed are just providing the equivalent of a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Sorry if I misunderstood.)

It's easy to forget that big bad corporate publishers absorb a lot of costs we take for granted when singing the praises of "free availability."

I guess what annoyed me about the original message was the public slap at Marcia and Mary for wasting their time, and the efforts of their contributors--for example, and I quote, "most of us just don't need these articles"--when they were simply wanting to generate more sales.

SueE

Sue Easun
ca.linkedin.com/in/sueeasun

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