How can scholarly publishers deliver monograph content digitally and still make a profit? This article is about two new models that are striving toward that goal. Bloomsbury Publishing, J.K. Rowling’s British publisher, is expanding into scholarly publishing with Bloomsbury Academic. All titles (50 by the end of 2009, focusing on humanities and social sciences initially) will be made available online free using Creative Commons licenses. Meanwhile, the AAUP (Association of American University Presses) will give member presses access to Tizra’s Publisher platform. Tizra Publisher is a “web-based software service that lets content owners create branded commerce websites from existing content, with complete control over branding, merchandising and sales terms.” -- See – “2 New Digital Models Promise Academic Publishing for Profit,” by Jennifer Howard,, Chronicle of Higher Educaiton, October 2, 2008.
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