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Models for Sustainable Open Educational Resources ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
"This short essay is about the sustainability of OERs. Most people, when they think of sustainability, think of how resources are paid for, but this essay takes a wider view, for it should be clear that this is only one part of a larger picture. So we will what they are, who creates them, how we pay for this, how we distribute them and how we work with them. Only if we understand the answers to these questions can we address how OERs are to be sustained."
OER Case Study Project - OER Commons Wiki
"A wide range of individuals and organizations are actively involved in the development of free-to-use open educational resources (OER). Partly because the field is so new, there have been few opportunities to share learnings and advances within and across projects and boundaries. Little is known, for example, about how projects are facilitating the adaptation of open content by diverse users, what structures they are instilling to support peer production, and how they are attempting to inspire community engagement.
ISKME is working with six projects to help them build capacity to track, analyze and share key developments in the creation, use and reuse of open educational resources (OER), and in the practices and models that play a role in project sustainability. The aim is to enable projects to discover unknown or untapped potential, facilitate decision making around which practices to change and which to maintain, learn how other OER projects have overcome similar challenges, and advance the field at large by contributing new knowledge which others can build upon. "
The Journal of Electronic Publishing: Toward the Design of an Open Monograph Press
John Willinsky: "This paper reviews and addresses the critical issues currently confronting monograph publishing as a matter of reduced opportunities for scholars to pursue book-length projects. In response, it proposes an alternative approach to monograph publishing based on a modular design for an online system that would foster, manage, and publish monographs in digital and print forms using open source software developments, drawn from journal publishing, and social networking technologies that might contribute to not only to the sustainability of monograph publishing but to the quality of the resulting books."
Internet Archive uncloaks open ebook dream machine • The Register
"The Internet Archive and various like-minded partners have launched an open architecture for selling and lending digital books online, an effort to consolidate the fledgling market for net texts - and give Google a little food for thought.
Dubbed BookServer, the open platform is meant to provide a standard means for booksellers, publishers, libraries, and individual authors to serve texts onto laptops, netbooks, smartphones, game consoles, and specialized ereaders a la the Amazon Kindle. The Archive has already demonstrated an early incarnation of the architecture with the Kindle and Sony's Reader Digital Book."
Thingology (LibraryThing's ideas blog): Ebook economics: Are libraries screwed?
Argues that libraries will have to spend more on e-books
Ithaka :: Ithaka Case Studies in Sustainability
Tens of millions of dollars, pounds, and euros are invested each year by government agencies and private foundations to develop and support digital resources in the not-for-profit sector. As budgets tighten, will these digitial resources be able to survive and thrive?
This question is at the heart of the Ithaka Case Studies in Sustainability project, a multi-year, international exploration of the strategies being used to support digital initiatives over the long term. Twelve detailed case studies present the steps project leaders have taken to achieve this, with special attention paid to their strategies for cost management and revenue generation. These studies include financial data, and explore the decision-making process that project leaders undertake when experimenting with different strategies to find the best fit for their organization.
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The Economics of Publishing and eBooks
by Ron Boehm, Chairman and CEO, ABC-CLIO Publishing
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