Publishing 2012 Current and Future Publishing Issues Washington Book Publishers

Michael Jensen April 2007

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Phase I continued: Publishing Successes Most e-publishing projects that succeed are large collections: Journal collections (Project Muse, HighWire) Historical collections of out-of-copyright works (LION) Encyclopedic collections (Encyclopedia Britannica) Not many book projects beyond NAP Monolithic collections: UMI/ProQuest all doctoral theses), newspaper archives, etc. Competition was between publishers Few customers, many readers, so high prices

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Phase I continued: Audience attitudes:		Phase I continued: Publisher Sales Models