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In 2013 HathiTrust will be moving to a new cost model that will distribute the costs of sustaining the repository in a way that more accurately reflects the benefits each partner receives from the preserved collections. The new model will also allow institutions to join HathiTrust that wish to participate in the curation and management of the repository in return for specialized services, but do not necessarily have digital content to contribute

"In recent years, publishers, librarians and academics have seized the opportunities offered by the electronic publication of scholarly journals. Despite the popularity of e-journals, however, content continues to be published, acquired and used in physical printed form. In the UK, we are still some way from a wholly electronic journal environment. This study is prompted by a concern from publishers and librarians that the retention of both printed and e-journal formats adds unnecessary costs throughout the supply chain from publisher to library to user. In view of the many advantages of electronic journals, this report sets out to understand the barriers to a move to e-only provision of scholarly journals in the UK, and to investigate what various players within the scholarly communications system could do in order to encourage such a move."

There's little doubt that the growing availability of books and periodical content -- at low or no cost -- will change the spread of knowledge.

A New Approach to College Textbooks. Finally. We preserve the best of the old - books by leading experts, rigorously reviewed and developed to the highest standards. Then we flip it all on its head. Our books are free online. We offer convenient, low-cost

A town hall meeting scheduled for 4/8/10, 2- 3.30 PM addresses accelerating sci-tech journal costs and insufficiency of open access efforts to date

paper examines costs and benefits of alternative scholarly publishing strategies in the UK, with five responding articles in the same journals issue

Consists of three reports, "Can a New Research Library Be All-Digital," "On the Cost of Keeping a Book" "Ghostlier Demarcations" (latter discusses large text databases such as Google Books and their impact on scholars)

Digitization of text corpora can impede the progress of scholarship if done without proper focus on reflecting the methodologies and intellectual practices of actual scholarship practices...

A report from the Council of Library and Information Resources. Featured chapters include "Can a library go all-digital?" and "the cost of keeping a book"