Publishing 2012 World Bank/George Washington University, Mexico City, Feb 2007

Preparing for the Future: Digital Strategies for Publishers Day 1

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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 is between publishers Few customers, many readers, so high prices

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