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Title The economics of access to literature and information
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/10760/7670
Date 2005
Author(s) Baker, Kim
Contributor(s) Ovens, Cora
Abstract This paper will focus on the importance of cost and economics as a factor in access to information and literature. Both the broader macroeconomic context and the more focused microeconomic (South African) environment will be referred to. The following aspects will be explored: - An examination of the assumption that the economic development of a nation is linked to the ability to access information; - The cost of books in South Africa - The advent of the electronic revolution and the many paradigm shifts that the Internet and electronic media have initiated and the effects on the publishing industry - An examination of the "information as commodity" paradigm (linked to Copyright and Intellectual Property developments) - Identification of innovative solutions to the access crisis, driven by those that adhere to the "Information for the social good" paradigm - The effect that these solutions could have in the publishing industry in South Africa
Subject(s) E. Publishing and legal issues::ED. Intellectual property: author's rights, ownership, copyright and copyleft; B. Information use and sociology of information::BE. Information economics; B. Information use and sociology of information
Language en
Publisher National Library of South Africa
Relation Bibli; application/pdf
Type of publication Conference Paper
Rights http://eprints.rclis.org/copyright/
Repository Italy - E-LIS
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