Introducing Some Data to the Open Access Debate: OBP’s Business Model (Part One) | Open Book Publishers Blog

"There is quite a lot of discussion about how to finance the costs of publishing monographs in Open Access. While lots of alternative business models have been identified, actual hard data on the publishing costs and revenue associated with academic books are conspicuously absent from the debate (for fairly obvious reasons – commercial publishers consider such data to be commercially sensitive)."