It costs $35K to publish a scholarly book. Who should pay that? – All views are etc.
lkfitz's bookmarks 2017-04-14
Summary:
"There are two variables to watch when people talk about scholarly publishing: the cost of publishing a book, and who pays that cost. Plans to push the model in an open access direction, like the new AAU-ARL-AAUP initiative announced last month, focus entirely on the latter, as far as I can tell."