Expanded Academic ASAP - Document - Access all publishers: Those in the trade who believe current policy-making on Open Access only matters to the academic market are mistaken

"Anyone who has tried to make small talk with an academic publisher over the past decade will know all they need to say is: "What do you think about Open Access?" Ask anyone involved in consumer publishing the same thing and you are more likely to receive a quizzical look or, simply: "This isn't an issue for me." But times they are a changing. And while the authors, publishers and sellers of consumer books are right to think that the current Open Access (OA) storm is being felt by their academic cousins, the forecast suggests it may only be a matter of time before the first winds reach their shore."