Back in 2000, at a meeting at netLibrarys headquarters in Boulder, CO, then-CEO Nancy Talmey told a group of assembled university press publishers that one medium-sized university press had recently pocketed two sizable checks for its previous months ebook usage with netLibrary. One check exceeded $100,000. Could academic monographs really be so profitable? If it seemed too good to be true, it was. Within a few years, netLibrary was reduced from a campus in Colorado, to a few cubicles at OCLC. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 14/04/2011 - 16:08 Independent publisher Oneworld has acquired two titles, one looking at the latest Afghan war and the other going to the borders of scientific discovery. Commissioning editor Mike Harpley bought world English language... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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