Thanks for sharing! That’s nice to read. Taking  $15k as the average BPC and todays exchange rate it would pay for 483 OA books (if Google did the math right) . Libraries in the TOME initiative paid for 175 titles over the last five years, so COPIM funding is a significant step up.



Best

Michael



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Just FYI--looks like a decent sized grant to support OA book publishing

https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/open-book-futures-announcement/release/1



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