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Paying $15 to download a PDF article does seem a might steep on the surface, but there are probably good business reasons for Kalmbach selling them at this price. This is not a question of getting current content scanned because it's already in electronic format anyway. But to be truthful, scanning older, printed copy into electronic form does take a lot more time and resources than common sense would seem to indicate, and it's not as trivial an exercise as we might think. Having said that, the idea of selling PDF files doesn't really stand up to muster in today's electronic market place. Railway Modeller, the largest British railmodelling mag has included CDs with article, editorial and how-to content in it's December issues over the past few years. And if you go to: http://www.finescalerr.com/ you'll find "the only major publication in the world offering identical versions both in print and online. " (their words, not mine). Point being that charging for downloadable article content is just not the right thing to do these days. It's too easy to obtain what we need in other, much less expensive ways.
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