The authors analyze the creator-publisher relationship in the book and software industries, which can benefit from digital distribution. This can be called pure electronic commerce, which refers to a transaction that uses information systems to avoid physical exchange and occurs entirely in a digital form. Using coordination and transaction cost theories as a theoretical framework, the authors ...

One of the organizers of the newly formed Scientific Society Publisher Alliance (SSPA) recently published an editorial highlighting the advantages of publishing in society journals (Johnston, 2017). As a founding member of this alliance, the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) fully embraces this message. Like other society journals, Molecular Biology of the Cell, the ASCB’s science resear...

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