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Informa, Annual Report, 2012, p. 1 www.informa.com/Documents/Investor%20Relations/Corporate%20Governance/Informa%20Annual%20Report%202012-web.pdf [accessed 22 January 2014].

Informa, Annual Report, p. 9.

Informa, Annual Report, p. 1.

While Peter Mandler claims that the situation in the humanities is one wherein journals are less frequently owned by large commercial entities, I am unaware of any actual surveys that measure this and the prevalence of mega-presses seems to contradict such a view. Mandler, ‘Open Access: A Perspective from the Humanities’.

For more on mergers in the book world, see Thompson, Books in the Digital Age, pp. 54–64.

Bloomsbury Group, Annual Report, 2012, p. 7 www.bloomsbury-ir.co.uk/annual_reports/2012/pdf/2012ar.pdf [accessed 22 January 2014].

Jane Park, ‘An Interview with Frances Pinter of Bloomsbury Academic’, 2008 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/10100 [accessed 22 January 2014].

Friedman’s doctrine that shareholder proﬁt is the only social factor for which businesses should be held responsible is widely disseminated and equally widely criticised. See Milton Friedman, ‘The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Proﬁts’, The New York Times Magazine, 13 September 1970, pp. 32–3, 122–4.

Thompson, Books in the Digital Age, p. 45.

Thompson, Books in the Digital Age, p. 167.

PLOS, ‘Written Evidence to House of Commons Select Committee Inquiry’, in Inquiry into Open Access: Fifth Report of Session 2013–2014, by House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee (London: House of Commons, 2013), pp. Ev80–Ev87 (p. 83).

For more on symbolic capital in book publishing, see Thompson, Books in the Digital Age, pp. 32–4.

Bergstrom and Bergstrom, ‘Can “author pays” journals compete with “reader pays”?’

Linguistic Society of America, ‘Journal Sponsorship’, Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014 http://semprag.org/about/journalSponsorship [accessed 22 January 2014].

Caroline Sutton, Peter Suber and Amanda Page, ‘Societies and Open Access Research’, Harvard Open Access Project, 2014 bit.ly/hoap-soar [accessed 26 June 2014].