Re: open access textbooks? Yes, there are!

["Bargheer, Margo Friederike" <bargheer@sub.uni-goettingen.de>]

Dear All,

several small-scale european university from the third wave 
(founded with or after the event of the internet, with a strong 
focus on electronic publishing and Open Access) publish text 
books and put them online free of charge and without cash-flow 
revenue for authors. One of our authors who wrote on the economy 
of information receives from time to time free copies because we 
do sell his book fairly well despite the free online version. 
Other authors sell printed copies to their students to cover the 
print-run cost, the university press serves the "long-tail" 
orders from bookshop via print-on-demand without costs/revenues 
for authors/editors.

For us in the Goettingen University Press we observe as followed: 
authors who know for whom they write their textbooks (namely for 
their own students) are more likely to share them Open Access as 
they see it as a fundamental part of their teaching activity.

Best
Margo Bargheer
Raum 2.21, Neubau der SUB Goettingen
tel. +49 551 39-91188 | fax  +49 551 39-2457
bargheer@sub.uni-goettingen.de