What was the genesis of the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection?
Steve Cohn: Moving us toward electronic publication of our books—along with print publication, of course—[and] starting with creating a collection for libraries, was my own initiative. The e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection … is something I have been thinking toward for a number of years, and talking about with other publishers and librarians… . I couldn’t avoid seeing the rapid move toward preference for electronic delivery of journals, and with our own journals, we had experimented with several models and several online platforms … before working out a set of arrangements that seems to work just right for us. … Our experience with developing and selling an electronic-journals package taught us that if we wanted to control the policies and prices under which our publications are sold as part of a package—and the library world is certainly moving toward the buying of packages rather than individual products one at a time—then we needed to have our own package, rather than go int
