OASPA, together with OPERAS, is hosting a series of three workshops on business models for open access books explicitly targeted at small and medium-sized academic book publishers. These workshops are part of the OPERAS-P project work package 6 (Innovation), looking into innovative, non-bpc, business models to create a sustainable infrastructure for open access book publishing in Europe. Feedback gathered in the course of these three workshops will inform a report on innovative business models for OA books and will be published by the end of June 2021 as an OPERAS-P project result.
The first of the three events took place on April 7th. Six publishers were invited from Finland, Croatia, Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom to present their business models for open access book publishing. Each of these publishers shared their experiences and insights, emphasizing Revenue, Costs, Legal Affairs, and Workflows (Production and Distribution).
The next two workshops will be organized in May as interactive in-depth sessions focused on challenging areas in the OA books publishing process. OASPA will share information about these as soon as it is available.
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