yeah this is the crux of it: this kind of money isn't in the system and so either (a) we don't do OA for books (b) we find a better way (eg collective funding models), (c) we end up digging a deeper financial crisis hole than we already have (see also: journals & the even worse mess they are in).
But this money is in the system exceptionally, occasionally (as today's webinar showed) which I think is all OUP care about. They are not interested in equitable, collective models because if they were they would put some effort into devising / implementing one.
Understood. I do wonder if they get any feedback about the level of their BPCs, or if authors simply either agree to pay or don't. (I suspect the latter!)
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