Growing Gains and Growing Pains

April 10, 2006

Maria Bonn

mbonn@umich.edu

http://spo.umdl.umich.edu

What we’re trying to figure out

lWhat defines a real publisher?

lWhich of the traditional publishing structures do we replicate, and how do we keep from replicating inefficient and unsustainable economic models? lHow do we convince users (both authors and readers) that the structures we discard aren’t necessary?


	Claiming ourselves as publishers – forbidden to say “if we were real publishers” -- overcoming our own sense of the mystique of publishing