OA authors calculate and print it |

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-02-27

Summary:

[From Google's English] "Open Access (OA) is the pressure landscape changes, ie the behavior of the authors in dealing with the pressure of their works. In the initial enthusiasm of the OA movement some had predicted that now a big wave is imminent on reprints of such works that would be read by digital libraries and web service and then made ​​available to download for free. Works of old classic, long-forgotten research reports and novels - all of it with that already 70 years have passed since the death of its author a community. In major supplier of digital works this expectation was not set until now. Nor the second forecast has today met: The critics of OA have warned of the extinction of the printed book (loudly eg Ulrike Landfester, Vice Rector and Professor of German Language and Literature at the University of St. Gallen, see wisspub.net/2014/ 05/12 ) ... This is what some publishers have already specialized by providing favorable conditions for pressure and services at a comparatively low support in view. If this price rise model, it would be an interesting step both for the OA-ready authors as well as for the general public still on the printed book. So you can publish online, while satisfying the need for printed copies specific. This assumes print runs, in which publishers would have already flagged with a pricing that relate to the classic print run. For the authors here worth looking into the details of the pricing of copies. The range of different service providers in this area varies considerably namely, concrete up to 100% ..."

Link:

https://zhbluzern.wordpress.com/2015/02/24/oa-autoren-rechnen-und-lassen-drucken/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.books oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.economics_of

Date tagged:

02/27/2015, 08:30

Date published:

02/27/2015, 03:30