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About articles rather than ebooks, but still relevant, rsinger alerts me to deepdyve. Described by some as a “netflix for scholarly articles”, it looks to me like they actually probably charge per-item fees rather than netflix’s flat rate for certain use limits model, but I’m not sure.

At one point, in the early days of digital online databases, libraries mostly paid per-use for online/digital fulltext. (And in some cases even per search). Then at some point  (around 15 years ago?) we started shifting to paying flat rate contracts for unlimited access to provider’s online collections.

What we’re using now to facilitate the delivery of electronic content is broken. The current methods are very ex

e’re broke: How many of you have indoor basketball courts in your library? Overdrive does. 300% is as bad as it’s gonna get: It’s going to get worse before it gets better. It has to be so bad that the public starts to roar. If gas prices went up 300% there would be riots in the street The publishers are forcing us to prevent you from owning these. Sarah has talked to the publishers – they actually don’t care.

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