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Library As Publisher: New Models Of Scholarly Communication For A New Era, Sarah Kalikman Lippincott
Library As Publisher: New Models Of Scholarly Communication For A New Era, Sarah Kalikman Lippincott
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Why Library Publishing?
In a post on library publishing for the influential Scholarly Kitchen blog, publishing consultant Joe Esposito (2013) asked rhetorically, “Why would anyone want to get into this business when those of us who were already there were trying desperately to get out?” The publishing community has established that publishing is not easy, it is not usually profitable at a small scale, it is in a constant state of “crisis,” and it is dealing with a variety of challenges and tensions, from changes in technology to changes in the marketplace. So why don’t libraries leave this up to …