The music industry is an interesting example for how business models from the pre-Internet area can get into trouble in the new Internet-based economy. Since 2000, the music industry has suffered declining sales, and very often this is attributed to the advent of the Internet-based peer-to-peer file sharing programs. We argue that this explanation is only one of several possible explanations, a...

The music industry is an interesting example for how business models from the pre-Internet area can get into trouble in the new Internet-based economy. Since 2000, the music industry has suffered declining sales, and very often this is attributed to the advent of the Internet-based peer-to-peer file sharing programs. We argue that this explanation is only one of several possible explanations, a...

purpose: the current research aims to investigate the status of knowledge sharing amongst librarians in lis, ala and alia discussion groups. methodology: through purposive sampling, librarians from three discussion groups (ala, alia & lis-iranian discussion list) who announced their intention to participate in the research (460 people) were asked to complete the questionnaire between 2010/10/23...