/ kalebeul / 2004 / 02 / 06 / money literature access /
Andrew Motion says that important manuscripts held in Britain shouldn’t be sold abroad. Since they’re currently only available to a very small group of people anyway, this seems pretty daft to me. I say digitalise them, publish them on the web, and use revenues from the sale of the originals to finance improvements in education, not archive humidity control.
Trevor @ 6 February 2004 11:51 AM
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12:23 PM on 6 February 2004
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