Print on demand and book innovation

With todays technology there is not significant cost saving with printing books in bulk compared to print on demand. It is computers and robots that is doing most of the work anyway.

I believe that eventually open digital books with innovative business models will win over the proprietary offerings that we have today.
"10 innovative digital books you should know about
A look at 10 envelope-pushing digital books."

Climate change and open source

THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF ‘OPEN SCIENCE’ An Essay on Patronage, Reputation and Common Agency Contracting in the Scientific Revolution Higly recommended!!
http://www-siepr.stanford.edu/workp/swp06008.pdf

Could climate science become open source?
http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/could-climate-science-become-open-source/

Mitigating “Anticommons” Harms to Research In Science and Technology New Moves in “Legal Jujitsu” against Adverse Consequences of the Exploitation of IPR on Publicly and Privately Funded Research Results (oktober 2010)
http://siepr.stanford.edu/system/files/shared/pubs/10-009_v2.pdf

Collaborative Research in e-Science and Open Access to Information
http://www-siepr.stanford.edu/papers/pdf/08-21.pdf

Preparing for the Next, Very Long Crisis: Towards a ‘Cool’ Science and Technology Policy Agenda For a Globally Warming Economy
http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2009/wp2009-031.pdf