September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
510 pages
14h 48m
English
Tony O’Rourke
This chapter reviews the sales, licensing and marketing activities undertaken by publishers, and highlights the value the publisher brings to the process of scholarly communication through these activities. It looks at the fundamental and emerging approaches to sales, licensing and marketing of academic content, and considers some of the metrics being used to evaluate the use of content, the development of pricing models and the efforts which the publisher makes to engage and retain customers.
Key words
Sales and licensing
researchers
libraries
consortia
purchasing decision
metrics
marketing
customer retention
pricing models
brand
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