At 08:40 -0500 1998/11/25, Y&Y, Inc. wrote: >>But paper is the only thing you can do better than I can. I can run >>a web-site with no problem and publish my stuff in whatever format I >>like. >>The only thing I cannot do is printing large quantities of paper >>and shipping them to every library in the world. > >No. You can't review articles. You can't provide easy searching and access >to all articles in an area. Etc. There *is* a role for publishers to >play. Of course >it is true that there have always been `self publishers'. But most people >have better things to do with their time. On the whole, professionals can do better that amateurs: And this also concerns websites and such. So publishing will simply change nature. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg <mailto:[log in to unmask]> * Home Page: <http://www.matematik.su.se/~haberg/> * AMS member listing: <http://www.ams.org/cml/>