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Stephen Downes

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This is ground I covered in Models for Sustainable Open Educational Resources, but is a good update, a much quicker read, and contains new information. Also, this article covers publishing in general, while I was looking at open educational resources specifically. But the basic lessons remain: "there are only a few ways to derive revenue and that digital technology and appealing to organizational mission do not change that. Whether a publication is the product of a commercial publisher or a not-for-profit educational institution, the publisher must determine how it will generate revenue and align its cost structure appropriately."

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