RE: Print-Only Subscription Trend

["David Goodman" <David.Goodman@liu.edu>]

Dear Kim,

I assume you are talking about only institutional subscriptions. 
Many Duke UP titles would be expected to have a significant 
number of individual copies. If I were a constant reader of one 
of your titles, I might want a print-only copy to supplement my 
library's e-only, or even e+print.

If it is only institutional, then I would be interested to know 
what the proportions are by size/type of library and by 
geographic region.

The only explanations I can give is that it is done either:

1/in very small colleges

2/ by librarians that are totally dominated by faculty who do not 
know what they are doing

3/ in more tradition-bound countries

4/ humanities are peculiar. .

This would be a occasion for some of those publishers on this 
list who generally do not post to share their unique 
knowledge--anonymously if necessary

Dr. David Goodman
Associate Professor
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University
dgoodman@liu.edu
dgoodman@princeton.edu