A Library to End All Libraries
Businessweek,
Jul 23, 2001
It's called the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for e-Books (DOI-EB). The main point here is to create a bottleneck... all links to published materials will point to the DOI site; online texts will be routed from the publisher's site through the DOI site and thence to the user... provided they've paid their fees. The spin is a bit different: the purpose of the site is to be able to uniquely identify and locate content. Either way, it represents yet another take on the idea that people should pay publishers for content, even if the work isn't really 'published' any more. By Stephen H. Wildstrom, Business Week, July 23, 2001.
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