Can the database become the primary access point for monographs in the library market?
Future market opportunities include the addition of other content, inclusion of international English, and non-English works, addition of more in-copyright materials closer to current pub dates, and potential third party application development. Admittedly, I may be taking a leap here and this statement is included in my summary of potential future developments; however, I believe publishers and libraries are on the verge of a major struggle to define a new and workable solution to making ebook content accessible via libraries. If this solution becomes successful we may see publishers view the database as a viable solution into the library market for all their content. Note however that the agreement doesn’t allow for the inclusion of recently published content. In August 2009, you published an estimate of the potential number of orphan works: 580,388. That’s far lower than others have estimated. There is/was a lot of hysteria about the potential number of orphan titles—none of it base
