If there is a profit to be made from literary texts, then this is what we will see (at a price).
What seems less likely to occur is the digitisation of the mass of printed texts currently stored in libraries. Considering only the literary field, we now have available a number of the canonical literary texts (especially in French and English) in electronic form, but these are for the most part not annotated as they are in scholarly printed editions, which makes them less immediately useful for readers. More important, there is a vast amount of other literature and a body of critical material which remains in print form. Little of this will be digitised for the simple reason that there is little profit to be made from the scholarly environments in which it is read.
Digitisation is not cheap. During a project David S. Miall managed several years ago to digitise a number of texts (from the Romantic period), the average cost of producing a reliable, proof-read electronic edition of a novel was about $4000. Consider the book and journal collections in all the other disciplines that a library holds: only a minute fraction of this material will ever be digitised.
(from D.S.Miall)Download ebooks on http://www.frenchtheory.com/
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See the journal French Metablog with today different posts
