New Models of Publishing

Dr Xiang Ren

The Traditional Publishing World

Publishing industry

Authorship

Copyright

Readership

Inspired by Angus Philips: Introduction to Turning the Page. Routledge 2014

The “New” Readers and Authors

Readers

Readers +authors

Readers+ authors+ publishers

• Active, creative, and networked readers

• Everyone publishes everything

• Gatekeeping vs. readers’ collective intelligence

• Removal of publisher intermediaries

Copyright from Closed to Open

Subscription Piracy FreemiumFree content

and Cross-subsidy

Open to reuse and

remix

Crisis and Opportunities for Publishing Industry

Research Themes

• New Value Propositions: The shift from markets in content to markets in services that make content useful

• Moving beyond closed: the sustainability, efficiency, and regulation of the “open” at scale

• Coordinating Institutions and Infrastructure and supporting publishing industry

• From national to global content landscapes

Case Studies

• Self-publishing: Chinese Online Literature, democratizing authorship and monetizing UGC

• Open access, open publishing, and the future of digital scholarship

Case Studies: Knowledge Unlatched

• A global scale action research experiment in market coordination for OA

• 300 libraries in 24 Countries• KU South• Big Knowledge Lab

Case Studies: Digital Publishing in China

Thank You!

Research Fellow,Australian Digital Futures Institute, USQXiang.ren@usq.edu.auTwitter: #renxiangcn