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What If Academic and Scholarly Publishers Paid Research Authors?

It’s a question that has lurked around the edges of our campfire for a while — what if publishers paid authors of research papers? Quickly, it becomes clear why this is very unlikely to happen — for financial, ethical, and practical reasons.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 25, 2016
  • 37 Comments

Confounded Complexity — Pondering the Endless Upgrade Paths of Digital Publishing

We were wrong to expect that online publishing would be cheaper and simpler than print. Acknowledging that, and facing the slower, more complicated commercial world it has created, could put us on a better path.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Nov 20, 2014
  • 36 Comments

Guest Post: Elisabeth Jones on Monograph Costs and Urban Legends–What's Wrong with This Picture?

Guest Chef Elisabeth Jones offers a critical analysis of a widely-distributed statistical chart that seems to show a doubling in the unit cost of monographs since 1985.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen
  • Sep 26, 2014
  • 10 Comments

What is an eBook? How do Publishers price it?

A short video explaining the costs that go into producing a book, and how little difference there is in those costs between electronic and print books.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jun 27, 2014
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