Re: Academic Publisher Web Sites Assessment

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@worldnet.att.net>]

No publisher would dare not to attend.

Joe Esposito

----- Original Message -----
From: "Diane Frake" <DFRAKE@vermontlaw.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: Academic Publisher Web Sites Assessment

> 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