EBSCO's exclusive content

Via Joyce Valenza's blog Neverendingsearch on School Library Journal:

"At two of the luncheons I attended, EBSCO revealed they now have an exclusive deal to provide the content of many of our most popular, popular magazines. [...]

The publishers of a number of popular magazines, concerned that library users were accessing their content for free and not subscribing to their publications, sought a strategy to recover lost revenue.

They told the database vendors they were going to go with one, and only one aggregator and that they wanted a substantial price for their content.

The publishers solicited RFPs (requests for proposals) and EBSCO, at a very substantial cost, won the bid."

Read the whole post (and see a partial list of affected titles)