The Market Demand for University Press Books 2008–15
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article analyzes important US university press net publishers' revenue and net publishers' unit datasets and e-book revenues for 2008–9. Data for net publishers' revenues, net publishers' units, and digital e-book revenues for higher education textbooks, professional and scholarly books, and consumer e-books were also evaluated covering the years 2008–9. Drawing on important economic data projections and the publicly available competitive print and digital strategies crafted by competitors in the consumer, higher education, and professional and scholarly sectors, the authors develop net publishers' revenue and unit projections for all of these book categories for 2010–15. The university press data sets reveal unsettling declines in revenues and units for 2008–2015. Addressing these declines, the authors conclude with a brief series of recommendations, including the rapid adoption of a digital 'e-book' business model in order to reposition the presses in what is becoming a digital book marketplace.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.049 | 0.109 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it