Frances Pinter, Rethinking The Role and Funding of Academic Book Publishing

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"A new business model is needed. While options abound, none of them are economically justified. Frances Pinter thinks she has cracked the puzzle, with a bit of help from Albert Greco and Harold Wharton who gave her the idea. Her proposal is to form a coalition of libraries, pool the money from their budgets and use that money to pay the publishers to meet the first copy costs, let the publisher publish the content as open access, and then sell POD versions...."

Link:

http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4754.html

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Tags:

oa.business_models oa.books oa.audio oa.pod oa.economics_of oa.consortial oa.presentations

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 14:42

Date published:

02/02/2011, 09:28