Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Freelance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Freelance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/editors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>editors</span></a> who contract with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publishers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publishers</span></a> and editors <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/employed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>employed</span></a> by society publishers will want to read this post from The Scholarly Kitchen blog: <a href="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/30/guest-post-society-publishers-at-a-crossroads-new-evidence-of-an-accelerating-crisis/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/20</span><span class="invisible">25/07/30/guest-post-society-publishers-at-a-crossroads-new-evidence-of-an-accelerating-crisis/</span></a></p><p>"Society publishers are facing an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/existential" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>existential</span></a> moment. ... [T]here are huge <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/challenges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>challenges</span></a> ahead in terms of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/revenue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>revenue</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/longevity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>longevity</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/operations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>operations</span></a>, and the impact of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>; many of which are amplified by a self-publishing exodus and the subject focus of the learned society. ..."</p>