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Not Your Family Farm: The Information Industry Added Value With Unique Content And Custom Tools As Large Search Engines Entered The Market, Carol Tenopir, Gayle Baker, Jill E. Grogg
Not Your Family Farm: The Information Industry Added Value With Unique Content And Custom Tools As Large Search Engines Entered The Market, Carol Tenopir, Gayle Baker, Jill E. Grogg
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
The information industry continues to consolidate, just as agribusiness has consolidated and now dominates farming. Both the family farm and the small information company still exist but are becoming rarer in an age of mergers, acquisitions, and increased economies of scale. Small companies distinguish themselves by high quality, special themes, or useful tools to keep and build their customer base.
The database marketplace this year was dominated by the news of several large acquisitions. Wiley's purchase of Blackwell Publishing Ltd. drew concerns from members of the Information Access Alliance (IAA), made up of representatives from SLA, the American Library Association, …