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The right to read. The right to reuse.
Copyright Clearance Center built a business around the photocopier’s awkward question: who gets paid when knowledge travels? AI has made that question harder to ignore.
Atypon puts the editor in the driving seat
A five-day Ebola website reveals what Atypon really sells: control over how research reaches its readers. Behind the journal pages sits a business built around the awkward details of publishing.
Silverchair and the trouble with a finished paper
A research paper can be complete and still have miles to travel. Silverchair has built a business around those miles - from the editor’s inbox to the reader’s screen.
The Paper Trail That Became a Social Network
A philosophy graduate wanted a one-click homepage for his papers. Eighteen years later, Academia.edu has turned that small irritation into a vast research network - and a business built around the desire to know who is reading.
Tizra
Tizra is a Providence, Rhode Island software company that builds a cloud content delivery platform for associations, publishers, and professional organizations. Its modular system lets clients upload, protect, search, sell, and showcase digital content - ebooks, PDFs, periodicals, audio, and video - through a secure digital library, an eStore for direct sales, and an API-driven 'Connected Hub' that ties content into AMS, CRM, LMS, and AI tools. Founded in 2006 by document-engineering scientist David Durand and former Popular Mechanics editor Abe Dane, Tizra helps content-driven organizations turn their archives into discoverable, revenue-generating, member-serving experiences.