Harvard and Loeb Digital Library

October 18, 2014

Hungry for a digital version of Fragments of Old Comedy, Volume 1: Diopeithes to Pherecrates? Navigate to this Loeb link. You may want to consider this question from Hacker News’ user Miles:

Why are they charging for access to ebooks, many of which are already in the public domain and available at archive.org?

I assume the answer is “money.” Harvard’s endowment piggy bank contains about $30 billion, according to US News’s 2013 estimate. Latin and Greek readers are flush with cash. Get with the program. Pony up.

Stephen E Arnold, October 18, 2014

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