Self-publishing,
print-on-demand, and distribution company Lulu Press Inc. recently entered the
educational market with its launch of Glasstree, an online publishing platform
for academic and scholarly works.
Characterizing
current commercial academic publishing as a broken model, Lulu hopes Glasstree
will address “critical pain points” in the market by fostering more transparent
pricing, speeding up product time to market, and allowing authors to see up to
70% of the profit from sales of their works.
Glasstree
offers a menu of services and tools for authors, including traditional peer review
and support for open access to works through a partnership with Creative
Commons.