Joseph Esposito, Author at The Scholarly Kitchen

Joseph J. Esposito is an independent management consultant providing strategic advice, operating analysis, and interim management in the area of digital media to both publishing and software companies. Mr. Esposito’s clients are equally divided between the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. Over the course of his career, Mr. Esposito has worked for a number of companies, including positions as CEO of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Tribal Voice, and SRI Consulting, all of which he led to successful exits. He writes extensively on digital media, and has been awarded research grants from the Hewlett, MacArthur, and Mellon Foundations. Mr. Esposito is not related to the famous “Joe Esposito,” Elvis Presley’s former road manager.

Articles by Joseph Esposito

The Double-bind Theory of Scholarly Publishing

What the public wants is better science, not open science. Plan S has put those two forces in conflict, and it is driving everybody crazy.

Upstreaming: The Migration of Economic Value in Scholarly Publishing

As publishers increasingly lose control of the final stage of the publishing process, they are looking elsewhere to extract economic value. They are finding it upstream, in the various linked processes that lead to the (erstwhile) final document.

The Coming Wave of Affordable Textbooks

At the Charleston conference this year, a panel on the library’s role in providing affordable textbooks showed the way to great savings and innovation in instructional materials.

How Traditional Publishing Works

Thus the defining property of traditional publishing is editorial selection. That is what publishing is about.

Rival Ecosystems: The Increasingly Porous Boundary between Institutional and Consumer Markets

Institutional and consumer markets are becoming more closely linked because of Amazon’s powerful value proposition, making it necessary for academic book publishers to create consumer services of their own.

Good Data, Bad Data, You Know I’ve Had My Share: Library Book Acquisition Patterns

We have had assumptions about the academic book market that probably are just not true.

Why Hasn’t the Academy Taken Back Control of Publishing Already?

Perhaps the academy has not taken control of scholarly publishing because it doesn’t want to.

Counting the Holes in the Swiss Cheese: “Read and Publish” Discovers America

The read-and-publish business model has been introduced to the U.S. by MIT and the Royal Society of Chemistry. It has implications for publishers, however, that must be studied carefully.

Libraries Face a Future of Open Access

Libraries and legacy publishers are in an unholy embrace. They need not love each other to feel they should stick together.

Publishing Continues to Outperform Perception

Publishers have shown themselves to be resourceful, navigating troubled waters to growth and profitability.

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