Pricing Electronic Journals
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چکیده
A fundamental problem facing publishers is how to recover costs. This is a problem for all publishers, but is of special significance to publishers of digital documents. This is because a basic characteristic of digital documents is that it is very costly to produce the first copy, but quite inexpensive to produce subsequent copies. Hence ``recovering the first copy costs'' takes on a special significance in digital media.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- D-Lib Magazine
دوره 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1996