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Joseph Esposito

A  Case for Popularization: A Review of Rockonomics

Bringing the authority of the academy to a broad audience should be second only to original research itself, especially if the research community hopes to retain or even increase the public’s support for the esoteric work that goes on behind the laboratory walls.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Aug 5, 2019
  • 0 Comments

Internal Contradictions with Open Access Books

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

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Jun 4, 2019
  • 18 Comments

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.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • May 6, 2019
  • 10 Comments

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.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Apr 29, 2019
  • 18 Comments

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.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Mar 18, 2019
  • 48 Comments

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.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Mar 5, 2019
  • 6 Comments

Extracting Book Data from Library Information Systems

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

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Jan 29, 2019
  • 3 Comments

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.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Jan 7, 2019
  • 22 Comments

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.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Nov 27, 2018
  • 16 Comments

Chefs’ Selections: The Best Books Read During 2018 Part 1

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read during the year. Part 1 today, Part 2 tomorrow.

  • By Rick Anderson, Alice Meadows, Joseph Esposito, Lettie Y. Conrad, Robert Harington
  • Nov 20, 2018
  • 3 Comments

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.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Nov 19, 2018
  • 36 Comments

How Traditional Publishing Works

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

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Sep 17, 2018
  • 50 Comments

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.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Aug 20, 2018
  • 36 Comments

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.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Jul 23, 2018
  • 24 Comments

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.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Jul 16, 2018
  • 56 Comments

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