Publishing cooperatives: An alternative for non-profit publishers
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https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v11i9.1396Abstract
Publishing cooperatives — owned, controlled, and benefiting non–profit publishers — would provide an organizational and financial structure well suited to balancing society publishers’ twin imperatives of financial sustainability and mission fulfillment. Market challenges and structural constraints often render it difficult for small society publishers to compete individually. Publishing cooperatives would allow society publishers to remain independent while operating collectively to overcome both structural and strategic disadvantages and to address the inefficiencies in the market for academic journals. Publishing cooperatives can provide a scaleable publishing model that aligns with the values of the academy while providing a practical financial framework capable of sustaining society publishing programs.Downloads
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2006-09-04
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Crow, R. (2006). Publishing cooperatives: An alternative for non-profit publishers. First Monday, 11(9). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v11i9.1396
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