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- Title
Rice University Press: Fons et origo.
- Authors
Henry, Charles
- Abstract
Financial challenges have beset university presses for over a decade. Recent articles describe these financial challenges, particularly the high costs of producing a printed academic monograph. The new digital Rice University Press was conceived as offering a new business model that follows other 21st century corporate practices of unbundling as many aspects of the traditional procedures and processes associated with paper-based print publication. In the new model, nothing is either ‘in’ or ‘out’ of print, there is no press, warehouse, or backlog, while the highest quality of peer reviewed content is replicated in a digital object. The digital object can be printed on demand, for a fraction of the current cost of paperback or hard bound book. This article describes the context of the Rice University Press, and looks ahead to a time when scholarship may be far more innovative, with compelling, perhaps unprecedented narrative arguments arising from new methodologies and intellectual strategies that digital publication may foster.
- Subjects
UNIVERSITY presses; PUBLISHING; SCHOLARLY publishing; UNIVERSITY press publications; COLLEGE publications; FINANCIAL performance; RICE University Press (Company); BUSINESS models; BUSINESS planning; MARKETING models
- Publication
Journal of Electronic Publishing, 2007, Vol 10, Issue 2, p9
- ISSN
1080-2711
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3998/3336451.0010.205