On Monday, I took part in a Springer Nature roundtable on “The Future of Scholarly Books”, held in Melbourne.
Around the table were publishers, librarians and authors. We had a wide-ranging discussion about how scholarly books are valued, used, funded and trusted.
I was invited both as an author of scholarly books and as a publisher of them through OTexts. I described how OTexts started, how it is run, and what I think the future …