From: adam hodgkin <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 14:51:06 +0200

Surely, even for rich countries an author contribution of $7,500 for
the publication of a monograph is going to be a problem. Certainly in
most European universities that is a big sum for an individual to
source without big research grants. Even in the USA, I suspect that
there are disciplines where a young scholar will find it hard to
scrape together funding from grants for the publication of a
monograph, especially if the scholar is not in a rich and elite
university. And is there not a problem that such a model for 'open
access' publishing of monographs will tend to attract slow moving and
unfashionable stuff? It would be tough for a Press organised along
these lines if it were to end up being the publisher where books that
are worthy but not commercial are most likely to be published. How are
open access books to avoid being trapped in a pigeon-hole where they
are deemed to be less viable, perhaps because less important than
stuff published without subsidy?

I like the open explanations on the web site, and the FAQ they
provide. Good to see such a public and explicit statement of their
objectives and process.

Adam

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