A Business Model for Electronic Books

Vargas, Torres; López, Valentino Morales

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.07.170

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“…Despite the less-than-favorable scenario for the academic book, currently, 90% of the university press production is still represented by printed monographs. Their argument is that the e-book market is not viable yet, thus only 10% of production results in e-books [36]. However, in a recent report on the open access monograph landscape, Sara Grimme, Mike Taylor, Michael A. Elliott, Cathy Holland, Peter Potter and Charles Watkinson anticipated that university presses are ready to increase their involvement in producing and making available to the public e-books (including monographs) under the Open Access model, after solving such challenges as innovating the publishing process, cooperating with stakeholders in the supply chain and creating a more rational system of funding [37].…”

Section: Books the Visiting Card Of Presses And Authorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Open Academic Book Publishing during COVID-19 Pandemic: A View on Romanian University Presses

Cernicova-Bucă

Luzan

2020

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In the context of the 2020 public health crisis that discourages exchanges of physical objects in society, university-led publishing needed to rethink its operations. Worldwide the opening of quality scholarly content proved to be a solution. University presses reacted rapidly and offered books according to the open access model. The present research aimed to map the editorial landscape of Romanian university presses, to identify the main features displayed online by the university presses parented by public universities and to highlight the readiness of these players to further open access academic books, especially in the time of the COVID-19 crisis. The quantitative approach investigated the availability of e-books in the university presses’ portfolios, including the alignment to the open access scholarship movement, the use of social media accounts to promote the presses and the response of the presses to the challenges of the health crisis. Out of the 46 active university presses, only six had open book titles in their portfolios and only one genuinely responded actively to the challenges posed by the need for electronic formats in 2020. Unless Romanian university presses modernize and restructure their modus operandi, they can prove irrelevant in the post-crisis period.

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Section: Books the Visiting Card Of Presses And Authorsmentioning

confidence: 99%