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Libraries and Publisher Price Control: The Net Price System (1901–1914) and Contemporary E-book Pricing
- Author(s):
- Jonathan Senchyne (see profile) , Mei Zhang
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American, TC Digital Humanities, TC Law and the Humanities, TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography, TM Libraries and Research
- Subject(s):
- Library science, Information science
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- e-books, price control, library history, cultural commodity, Library and information science
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6MR6K
- Abstract:
- This article explores how librarians have responded to publishers’ control over book prices in two different, yet related, historical periods. It historicizes the net price system, a book-price control system in the early twentieth century, within debates by librarians about library book buying and price negotiation practices. Turning to similarities in current e-book pricing, the article focuses on how publishers reduce the “fragility” of books as cultural commodities in either paper or electronic format, and then explores how libraries, publishers, and distributors gain power in library book pricing.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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