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Byline: Gary Flood
backfile to the future
Ever more professional content, such as journals and books, is born digital, with the material being created and assembled electronically. The bits and bytes of the digital version flow straight onto the web, where, increasingly, they can sit alongside their now equally electronic ancestors. But the story doesn't end there, because publishers are also moving ever closer to digitising their entire back catalogues.
"It is not inevitable that all back catalogues will be digitised," says Clive Parry, sales and marketing director at business and academic publisher Sage, "but there is a strong desire to have ...
Source: HighBeam Research, backfile to the future.