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The EServer published written works in the arts and humanities, largely (but not exclusively) those from the
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Contemporary publishing tend to place highest value on works that sell to broad markets. Quick turnover, high-visibility marketing campaigns for bestsellers, and corporate "superstore" bookstores have all made it less common for unique and older texts to be published. Geoffrey Sauer has argued that
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licenses, though many were distributed under an older model, which preserves the copyright in the author but permits reading and linking but not redistribution, except under specific limited conditions.
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campus network to permit them to collaborate with one another. In 1991, with the addition of more disk space, it became an
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electronic publishing cooperative, founded in 1990, which published writings in the arts and humanities free of charge to
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