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Rebecca Colesworthy

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Also: “as acad publishing moves further to an ‘article economy’ under OA, publishers are increasingly incentivized to reduce the human intervention on each article, & to limit the cost of that intervention where it remains. Sr execs will inevitably target the biggest costs 1st.”

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Can’t resist, sorry not sorry etc, but here’s an excerpt from my Public Books essay making this point as well. It’s the same deal at university presses. Staff is the biggest cost. So where to cut costs? Staff! www.publicbooks.org/publishers-a...

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