I agree that it’s likely an Apple price, or at least Apple-compatible.

Do you have access to recent ebook data feeds from your old system? It might be helpful to look at those and see whether these prices were used there, and if so, to what vendors.

We have a number of member presses with the ability to send files and metadata to LOC’s CIP program. Most of them are using it to apply specifically for e-book registration, not print.

LOC are getting both book files (PDF) and metadata (ONIX), so pre-publication/galley PDFs would be needed if someone wanted to use this to apply for print…[Read more]

Leah,

I’m wondering if it is to create a price that works for Apple. They require a price that ends in “.99” and require the price to be the best one on offer. Just a guess.

When we first starting pricing e-editions, we dropped the ebook prices by 80%. And we have been pricing our print editions with prices ending in .99 rather than .95 for…[Read more]

any update on this venture? interested.

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Hi everyone, we have a new vacancy at the DOAB & OAPEN for the role of Community Manager, responsible for the development of and engagement with our library community. This is a full-time position. OAPEN and DOAB have their offices in The Hague in the Netherlands, but the position is open to working remotely.

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Many thanks for this assistance!

Hi David, that’s indeed an excellent question, and just to add to John’s mention of the OATP, there’s also an option to narrow one’s search down via boolean operators, so searching for oa.business_models AND oa.books will provide you with a more specific version of the list that John mentioned…[Read more]

Hi David, excellent question! John makes a great suggestion with OATP, which is really useful in keeping up with new announcements and current developments. The difficulty with any online list is keeping it up to date — as you note, there are a lot of new initiatives like Path To Open launching at the moment. My colleague Tom Grady and I recently…[Read more]

Peter Suber created the OA Tracking Project

If you search by tags of business models, you get a pretty good list (including the new Path to Open)

http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.business_models

Thanks, Trond. I don’t really see another way to do it. But it still irks me!

Hi Jana, we too became frustrated with how buried this was, and though we
still mark it in the Edition Number, for most books in 2nd editions (or
beyond) we also make it part of the subtitle, either the edition number or
we make clear that it is a revision/expansion/what-not (especially for our
textbooks and guides this is key info) like…[Read more]

Hello, we’re looking for a Finance & Administration Officer to join the OAPEN Team (fluent in Dutch and English). The Finance & Administration Officer will help us with the financial management of OAPEN’s operational and project activities. More…[Read more]