The Enduring Mystery of the Academic Book Market

Nature's greatest mystery is anything to do with books: who reads them, how many there are, how much of them we read, what they cost, where we buy them, who makes money on their sale. Every day I step through a wormhole to try to keep up with attempts to probe this mystery and am happy to report that we are chipping away at this great unknown, but there is much work left to do. A recent piece by Dan Cohen, sheds some light on the puzzle