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SWOT: Threats
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Current and Near-future Threats
- Self-publishing easier than ever (see Lulu.com)
- Changes in peer review process, via online systems, may threaten
that scholarly publisher specialty
- Low-cost book scanners can scan 250 pages an hour into searchable (and sharable) PDF
- Peer-to-peer networks
- Low capital outlay for e-publications
- "Aggregations of amateurs" means millions of competitors for audience's
reading time
- User resistance to Digital Rights Management
- Alienating our base by fighting wind with a legal shotgun
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