2. Brave Adventures
New Publishing Models for the
“Now” World
SSP, 2009
Baltimore
Geoffrey Bilder
Director of Strategic Initiatives
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
3. iTunes for Scholarly
Publishing?
SSP, 2009
Boston
Geoffrey Bilder
Director of Strategic Initiatives
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
23. Picture An Industry Where…
• Major sellers of content were
• Frightened of cannibalizing their physical sales
• Slow to innovate in online sales
• Slow to cooperate with each other on standards
• Seen as pro teering
• Afraid because their customers were starting to
distribute the content for free
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24. And then a competitor emerged from
outside the industry and threatened to
turn it upside down…
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31. It is easier for a camel to pass
through the eye of a needle
than to nd a library website
that is usable and friendly
and provides services rather
than talking about them in
weird library jargon.
THE USER IS NOT BROKEN: A MEME MASQUERADING AS A MANIFESTO
K.G. Schneider
http://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/06/the_user_is_not_broken_a_meme.php
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
32. It is easier for a camel to pass
through the eye of a needle
than to nd a publisher
website that is usable and
friendly and provides services
that haven’t been co-opted
by a weird marketing agenda.
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39. “While some features are clearly little used and
little respected by researchers, it is often the
case, especially for a commercial publisher,
that these features have to be developed to
support a political position with respect to
societies and powerful editorial board
members.”
How Readers Navigate to Scholarly Content
Simon Inger and Tracy Gardner, 9 September 2008
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