ABSTRACT
Global publishing is a world replete with competent and at times courageous private firms and public agencies in search of joint survival and mutual sustenance. A struggle is shaping up in scholarly and scientific circles that goes right to the heart of global publishing. The politics of international publishing are probably the most difficult area for the publishing community to absorb easily. The librarians and publishers also reaffirm the place of copyright in this modern post-industrial world. Like their American counterparts, they tend to cast solutions of technological problems in legal rather than technical terms. The new information and communications technologies are changing the public's expectations about its rights to use them. The idea of the free market has been universalized to include nations that simply have no excess capital and few resources to acquire books or journals in a competitive way.
