[Air-l] on conferences

[Robert Mason]

Re: printing on demand and costs--

Several years ago when publishers were being pressured (especially by
libraries) to move to electronic publishing, they were saying that the
2/3 of the costs of a refereed journal were incurred *prior* to any ink
going on paper.  (I don't have a citation for this, but it seems
reasonable...and perhaps even too low an estimate, if one fully priced
the donated time by referees and editors.)   Saving print costs by POD
would help, but not dramatically, I suspect, even in today's XML world.

All of which raises the question about archiving and how best to archive
"archival" research that is born, and lives, digitally.  But this is
another thread, IMO.

Bob

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>
> Jeremy is correct that AoIR did not publish the research annual (but 
> he's not correct insofar as it's Peter Lang Publishing that's the 
> publisher and not "Steve's Publisher" :-)). It was, as usual with all 
> things AoIR, volunteer work that made it happen, and it was primarily 
> Mia Consalvo who volunteered. Without here there would not have been 
> an annual, just as there would not have been one without the program 
> chairs who served as editors, nor without the contributors.
>
> It's also correct that the last research annual will be the last one 
> published by Peter Lang. Sales were abysmal, and while I don't have 
> the figures in front of me, they were in the neighborhood of fewer 
> than 100 sold of each.
>

One option to consider is a print on demand (PoD) journal. While there
might be some stigma in releasing it through a digital PoD service like
LuLu.com, it seems that it would be mitigated by a peer-review process.
The benefit is that it eliminates direct printing costs. The final
product could simultaneously be released in PDF form (since you'd need
that to build the print file anyway).

And once templates are set up, it wouldn't be too hard to "automate," or
at least routinize, much of the production workflow. Heck this has the
potential for a great XML application.

- Matt

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Matthew Bernius
New Media and Customer Intelligence Strategist for Hire
mBernius at gMail.com http://www.waking-dream.com
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