Steve Kolowich has published "How Streaming Media Could Threaten the Mission of Libraries" in Wired Campus.
Here's an excerpt:
Welcome to content licensing, a great source of anxiety for librarians in the digital era. In previous decades, the university librarians might have bought a CD of the Dudamel album for $25 and kept it in circulation it for as long as the disc remained viable. Here they were asked to pay the publisher 10 times that amount (plus a licensing fee that would probably exceed the processing fee) for access to a quarter of the album for two years.
Digital Scholarship | "A Quarter-Century as an Open Access Publisher"
