"Book processing charges (BPCs) do not scale but they remain a significant method of paying to produce OA monographs for many researchers and libraries," write the authors. "However, in the last few years, we have seen several new initiatives emerge that seek to solve the problem posed by funding via BPCs alone." Why? Especially when "there is a proliferation of collective funding models for OA books, including Opening the Future, Open Book Collective, MIT Press's D2O, JSTOR's Path to Open and others... how do we move away from relying on big grants or scraps and leftover funds at the end of the year?" I honestly think most of academia's problems in publishing are of their own creation, aided of course by commercial publishers eager to cash in, but caused ultimately by the institutions' inability or unwillingness to change. Via Digital Koans.
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