Cost Centers and Measures
In The Networked Information Value Chain

Cost Categories of Major Value-Added Activities
for the Entire Value-Chain

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Author/Creator

a) Thinking and Reflecting
b) Data Collection
c) Data Analysis
d) Composing
e) Revising
f) Representing

Publisher

a) General and Administrative (G&A)
b) Acquisition (Peer Review/Selection/Acquiring Rights)
c) Marketing/Sales/Promotion
d) Distribution (Fulfillment/Storage/Freight)
e) Financing (Cost of Financing)
f) Managing Rights and Protections
g) Manufacturing
h) Copyediting/Design
i) Royalties
j) In-house Authorship

Intermediary

a) Acquiring (Selection/Acquiring Rights)
b) Editorial (Abstracts/Indexes/Surrogate Preparation)
c) Managing Rights/Royalties
d) Marketing/Sales/Promotion
e) Production/Distribution
f) General and Administrative (G&A)
g) Financing
h) Research and Development/Product Development
i) Data Preparation

Buyer

a) Selecting
b) Acquisition/De-acquisition (Cancellation)
c) Intellectual Organization

- Preparing Surrogates, Representations

d) Storage
e) Preservation and Archiving
f) Training, Retraining, and Support (Customer/Staff)
g) Access and Delivery
h) Diffusion (Publicity)
i) General and Administrative

Reader/User/Consumer

a) Informal Peer Communication
b) Searching and Evaluating
c) Acquiring
d) Using
e) Recognizing

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