BUSTED: Authors still receive royalties on the print copies sold, and the consensus is that making a book OA has little significant effect on print sales! The OAPEN-NL study on OA monographs, published in 2013, reviewed Open Access monograph publishing models, and the study found no evidence of any effect of OA on print sales. Books with an OA edition were sold in the same amounts as the conventionally published control group.
There will be a freely available online version and a downloadable DRM-free PDF on the Routledge/Taylor & Francis eBooks platform. A free eBook will also be available from commercial distributors such as Amazon. However, for customers wanting a hard copy of the book, a print version will still be available for purchase and authors may still be entitled to royalties on print sales of the book.
Immediate Universal Access: Upon publication, it will be freely and immediately available online on TaylorFrancis.com and identified as ‘open access’. Readers will be able to read online or download a DRM-free PDF. A free eBook will also be available from commercial distributors such as Amazon.
Visibility and Discoverability: Your book will be discoverable via key search engines such as Google Scholar and be accessible via TaylorFrancis.com and we will also deposit a copy in the OAPEN.
More Readers, Citations & Mentions: Research suggests that Open Access content is far more likely to be downloaded and cited.