Anna Metzner (German Association of Publishers and Booksellers) welcomed chairs, speakers and participants to Academic Publishing in Europe 2013. This being the 8th conference, she highlighted as continuous the open and discursive nature of the proceedings, and as evolving the themes under discussion. The funding of publishing is an especially timely theme as digital business models are being c...

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