Industry committee  All of the publishers involved in this project are members of the various regional and national publishing associations. The project that we're working on is like its own specific project. We're not, let's say, a policy.... Not all of us agree, by the way, with all the positions

Industry committee  Pay to play is our thing, and the money is staying in Canada, going to Canadian publishers of Canadian material. If you were to get good information, which is tough to get—I'm not even sure you would get it from Access—about what was happening with the money universities were pay

Industry committee  We're definitely aiming to be a platform. As I said earlier, we think that the opportunity for discovering content.... It's very hard for an academic to keep on top of, especially when there is material in books that they wouldn't necessarily see as hitting right on the head of

Industry committee  Behind the non-profits are the publishing companies. The money flows through the publishing companies. It's more that we want to get this material. We publish it because we think it's important for people to read, and that's what this would achieve, making the material much mor

Industry committee  Of course, that's what Access Copyright does. That's the Access tariff approach to life. I think you have heard enough to know that there's a huge resistance on the part of the universities to paying fees when they don't see the direct connection. First of all, they don't want to

Industry committee  We're a group of five publishers: Between the Lines, which is a Toronto-based publishing company; Irwin Law, which is a small, independent law book publishing company in Toronto; Fernwood Publishing, which I mentioned, in Black Point and Winnipeg; my own company, Formac Publishin

Industry committee  Yes. The response from Dalhousie was that they weren't interested in meeting with us about this initiative. We didn't go to Fredericton. In Halifax, we did meet with Mount Saint Vincent, , and we did meet with Acadia, which is in Wolfville, but we were declined by the other three

Industry committee  The way it works is that when an author comes to me and I publish his book, my job is to get that book out into as many people's hands as possible, to promote the book, and to create awareness. When I sell the book, I pay royalties to the author. All of the publishing companies o

Industry committee  Oh, yes, absolutely.

Industry committee  You should register. It's free.

Industry committee  They were not interested. They said they were happy with what they're doing right now. Well, of course the universities are happy, as you heard earlier today and you've heard at other sessions. They're happy because they're not paying for the content, so they're happy. It's polic

Industry committee  The individual publishers put the price on each chapter of each book, just as would be the case that, when I publish a book, I put the price on it. What we've tried to do is make sure that the prices are reasonable, as I said in my presentation. The average price is 10¢ a page. S

Industry committee  They set the price.

Industry committee  Yes, because it's a platform. Just like on Amazon, the price you pay is the price I charge Amazon less whatever the discount is they want to give you. Yes, each publisher sets the price of the book and the chapters in that book.

Industry committee  As you have heard from other witnesses, my company and pretty well every Canadian publisher that publishes academic books found that after the universities decided to use the 10% for free approach, the revenues that we were getting from the university market for the use of our ch