Re: Academic Publisher Web Sites Assessment

["Diane Frake" <DFRAKE@vermontlaw.edu>]

This is an important topic that would be an excellent theme for a
conference or workshop.  Would anyone be interested in putting a program
together, either separately or for a program at another conference?  I
would be happy to work on it.

Diane F. Frake, Associate Director
Julien and Virginia Cornell Library
Vermont Law School
P. O. Box 60
So. Royalton, VT 05068
phone: 802-831-1444
Fax: 802-763-7159
email: dfrake@vermontlaw.edu

At 05:29 PM 6/25/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>This message prompts me to ask the following:  From a technical point of
>view, not from the point of view of pricing or the granting of rights,
>which academic publishers have the finest Web sites?  To put this
>differently, from the perspective of the academic community, which
>companies should other publishers emulate?  Or to put it differently yet
>again, who in the academic publishing world is the technical equivalent of
>such fail-safe consumer services as Amazon, NetFlix, and Yahoo?  (Which
>may raise another question: Why are consumer Internet services so much
>better than just about all the others?)
>
>And I ask this question because I seek to emulate those companies that the
>customers deem the finest.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Joe Esposito