More Adventures in e-Books
Although it took about three or four decades to reach a profitable level of utilization in the case of the railroads, the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), a non-profit organization that provides computer-based cataloging and resource sharing to 40,000 libraries in 81 countries, has decided that netLibrary, the e-book reference and collection service for libraries and institutions, has an infrastructure worth about $20 million (based on what is currently known about the terms of the pending purchase of netLibrary by OCLC). This would suggest that here we have an instance of an infrastructure that, unlike Reciprocal's, is delivering goods to the right place. (Again, the matter of arguing why this is the right place I will also defer to the next column.)
- Companies:
- ContentGuard
- Texterity Inc.
- People:
- Derek Jeter
- Richard Nash