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

Internal Contradictions with Open Access Books

Consolidation and concentration are inherent properties of media in a networked environment.

The New “University Journals” in the Marketplace

For “University Publishing” to succeed by any measure, however, it is going to have to attract a lot of authors.

Where Does a University Press Sit in its Parent’s Priorities?

The unfortunate news about cutbacks at Stanford University Press makes it clear that all presses must develop strategies to make them more central to the university’s set of priorities.

Strategic and Non-strategic Society Publishing

Many society publishers, concerned about the disruptive implications, of Plan S, are nervously considering selling off their publishing assets.

Revisiting: Governance and the Not-for-profit Publisher

How can not-for-profit organizations outcompete their commercial rivals? Revisiting Joe Esposito’s 2011 post that lays out a blueprint for success.

Extracting Book Data from Library Information Systems

Despite increasingly sophisticated library automation, the data on books in libraries is often hard to come by.

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.

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