Smalljones aka Paul Jones on Nostr: “Libraries came before publishers,” [ npub1fl6vr…7kwvj ] the 62-year-old ...

“Libraries came before publishers,” [ npub1fl6vrld9v59s4sz0da29kh2fwelwjdx4pmp8tscel3vhsg2qq3qq57kwvj (npub1fl6…kwvj) ] the 62-year-old librarian said in a recent interview in the former Christian Science church in western San Francisco that houses the archive. “We came before copyright. But publishers now think of libraries as customer service departments for their database products.”

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