Sustainability of digital libraries: economic issues and business planning

• Lesk: “economics is definitely not a solved problem” (1997) • Collier: “many digital library projects are started without much attention to the business issues” (2004) • Lesk: “...is emphatically not a solved problem” (2004) • Baker: “do we have a true understanding of digital library developments?” (2006) • Brindley: “no one really knows how the economic and business models will emerge” (2009) • Law: “we know...the price of electronic content but almost nothing about the total cost of ownership” (2009)