Licensing books

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

I was in an interesting discussion this morning in which the 
question came up as to whether scholarly books would follow a 
digital path similar to what journals experienced beginning, say, 
10 years ago.  At the risk of this sounding a bit like a "compare 
and contrast" assignment that is the bane of high schoolers, I 
was wondering if other members of this list had pondered this 
analogy.  Will books follow journals, albeit several steps 
behind, or will they forge their own way in the brave new digital 
world?

Joe Esposito