My point here is that we at CCMF were not the first to discover the fact that electronic publishing liberates publishers from being held hostage to latecomers, nor were we the first to confront the challenge of getting the word out about our online services.
If we had been part of a network that might, at some point in its programme of activities, have included experiences of publishers and editors, we might have been spared the agony of having to rediscover the wheel, in this case. It is this kind of networking and dialogue that I suggest the ISB should seek to facilitate, going forward.