David W. answered • 06/03/16
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For a few decades now, the most current information has been available on web sites, in e-books, and in audio/visual formats. Even conference proceedings are often webcasts and recorded audio/video.
There are still paper books, scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers and other paper-based products available, but they are vanishing fast. [for example, does anyone buy a print encyclopedia anymore?]
Scholarly journals are slower to produce than newspapers because there is usually a peer review process to select and check the best articles. That process is much quicker now with electronic exchange of documents, so the end products are available quicker.
Sorry, print books are much slower to produce (even with on-demand printing) than Internet documents. Print books do not provide the most current information (although they may still provide more accurate information in some cases).
There are still paper books, scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers and other paper-based products available, but they are vanishing fast. [for example, does anyone buy a print encyclopedia anymore?]
Scholarly journals are slower to produce than newspapers because there is usually a peer review process to select and check the best articles. That process is much quicker now with electronic exchange of documents, so the end products are available quicker.
Sorry, print books are much slower to produce (even with on-demand printing) than Internet documents. Print books do not provide the most current information (although they may still provide more accurate information in some cases).
