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Free and shared cost models for academic publishing. Cites other organizations that, like NAP, have sustainable models with free content.

Good review of the costs and royalties for books in different formats.

A Report of the AAUP Task Force on Economic Models for Scholarly Publishing

"more affordable than print books" depends on your pricing model

Interesting story of business model evolution for college textbook rentals. 

Interesting story of business model evolution for college textbook rentals. 

This is a bit dated, but the topic is right on point given our recent discussions on small, independent presses and business model innovation.

More on the Google-AAP settlement. Key take-away ""But content owners also belatedly realize that simply suing consumers who find new, convenient ways to access content online is not as good as finding new business models to profit from customer interest that technology makes possible."

PW talks about O'Reilly's TOC conference and where the publishing industry may be heading in the near future. What new business models will emerge? Who will be the big players?

Apple and publishers accused of anti-competitive pricing practices.

Because of the cloud-based storage of the Kindle Fire, no syncing is necessary. And Mr. Bezos goes on to take a swipe at Apple. "That model, that you are responsible for backing up your own content, is a broken model," he says. The most recently used items, no matter what the content is, will be stored in a task bar/carousel interface.

Online dictionary sites depend on advertising revenue but this model is in jeopardy as search engines extend functionality

Herald publisher predicts near-term industry shift to paid online model

The always interesting Cory Doctorow on business models for digital content.

Experimenting with new business models in epubs: "For the first time, customers can subscribe to unlimited reading of as many as 32 titles from five different publishers through one app, with one user interface, at one price."

The company acquired an electronic reading platform called Skiff and invested in a company working on pay models for newspapers and magazines.

Interesting article. I don't really agree with this statement: Maybe too much, said Michael Norris, a senior analyst for Simba Information. "I don't think that the U.S. market can support 50 or 60 e-readers," he said, adding that he had lost count of all the current models. The market can support it; it gives people more options, but it'll just turn into a matter of what device addresses/achieves all of the needs of the consumer. Like the model Arnie went over in class, it's like a bell curve of technological advances that we want/would like, slowly get, but that eventually ends up swamping us. We start out wanting a and b, then c, d, and e are added, which we like. By the time it hits m, n, o, and p, we're overwhelmed.

U of M Press will publish monographs only in digital form with an option for POD. The money quote "I have been increasingly convinced that the business model based on printed monograph was not merely failing but broken,"