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Open for business

The Open Access movement is accelerating, and with it, the challenges for academic publishers, who must think more creatively than ever about how their businesses... Read more

Plan S must consider researcher demand for OA

Springer Nature's Steven Inchcoombe explains the publisher's stance on Plan S' implementation guidance. Read more

Reading the future

Can virtual reading define a new type of book format? Recent studies suggest the future of reading is by no means set in stone. ... Read more

The best laid Plan S...

Could limiting the avenues through which research can be published, as Plan S proposes, be detrimental to the wider academic publishing community? Read more

Access all publishers

Those in the trade who believe current policy-making on Open Access only matters to the academic market are mistaken, argues William Bowes. Read more

The opportunity of TEF

Blackwell's Scott Hamilton on the opportunity that the recent government White Paper on education provides for academic booksellers and publishers. Read more

How open is Open Access?

Goldsmiths Press director Sarah Kember argues that Open Access in the academy may not be the universal good many claim. Read more

Lessons learned

After closing his campus academic bookselling operation late last year, Ron Johns reflects on the physical market for textbooks. Read more

Kings and queens

One of the most exciting things about being in publishing is how much change the industry enjoys (or endures) as we attempt to keep pace... Read more

Academic reviews crisis

Despite some gloomy predictions, the academic book remains in good health. Most academics in the humanities and social sciences are committed to it as essential... Read more

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