c/o Katina Strauch Post Office Box 799 Sullivan’s Island, SC 29482 ALA MIDWINTER ISSUE TM volUME 28, NUMBER 6 DECEMBER 2016 - JANUARY 2017 ISSN: 1043-2094 “Linking Publishers, Vendors and Librarians” The Value of Publishing: What’s Worth Paying For? by Nancy L. Maron (President, BlueSky to BluePrint) <[email protected]> e spend a lot of time talking about munity-based organizations like Knowledge The findings raise two key questions: Why how books are expensive: on one Unlatched have jumped into this space with does it cost that much to publish monographs Whand, to produce, to distribute, a model that permits university presses to today? And, does it need to be that way? to preserve and on the other, to buy. The test the waters with a few titles. Others, like The essays included here all speak to the question of cost has been particularly im- UCP, have developed models of their own. more qualitative side of the business of pub- portant recently, as publishers of monographs But many publishers still wonder if an “open” lishing. What is the substance of this work that experiment with ways to adopt the open model can compensate them for takes so much time, and ends up costing so access models popular with journals. the effort each book requires to much? Noting that acquisitions work can take And it’s a delicate topic: mono- publish. years is fine, but what does that really mean? graph publishing has largely So, what exactly does it Certain key elements in scholarly publishing resisted OA models, despite cost? A study my colleagues — peer review is a perfect example2 — must be sometimes heated rhetoric and I conducted with funding clarified to have real meaning: the peer review from OA advocates. (One from The Andrew W. Mellon conducted by an OA STEM journal publisher conference presentation a Foundation demonstrated that is unlikely to be the same process, for the same few years ago underlined the even if you include only staff time ends, at the same cost, as the process under- revolutionary nature of the and direct expenses, spending per book taken by a scholarly book publisher reviewing movement by featuring an image of Delac- averaged between $22,559 at the smallest an important new work in an emerging field. roix’s Liberty Leading the People, though the presses and $34,686 at the largest ones. These When publishers, funders, university adminis- tone has cooled somewhat since then.) figures rose substantially when we included trators and library-based publications programs Not that there hasn’t been interest in OA, overheads like technology development and start talking about the “cost” of publishing, it’s 1 particularly from university presses. 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From Your Editor ................................ 6 Deadlines .............................................. 6 Editor: Katina Strauch (College of Charleston) FEATURES Associate Editors: The Value of Publishing: What’s Worth Paying For? — Guest Editor, Nancy Maron Cris Ferguson (Murray State) Tom Gilson (College of Charleston) The Value of Publishing: What’s Small But Mighty: How University John Riley (Consultant) Worth Paying For? ............................. 1 Presses Bring Academic Ideas to the Research Editors: by Nancy L. Maron — A study demonstrated Judy Luther (Informed Strategies) World .................................................. 20 that even if you include only staff time and by Jessica Lawrence-Hurt — MIT press Assistants to the Editor: direct expenses, spending per book averaged Ileana Strauch focuses on mission, a close relationship with Toni Nix (Just Right Group, LLC) between $22,559 at the smallest presses and audiences, and of course, far fewer resources $34,686 at the largest ones. Editor At Large: than commercial presses. Dennis Brunning (Arizona State University) I’ll take “Sifting and Winnowing” for Adding Media, Adding Value ........... 21 Contributing Editors: $1000, Alex ........................................