In neo-liberal academia, when authors are also expected to be impresarios, marketers, distributors and agents, book club scams will proliferate, alongside predatory publishing.

A creative use of preprints can benefit authors and publishers of monographs, as well as the scholarly community at large, no less than preprints are currently benefiting those working with journal articles. This is a good in and of itself, but one that may also help pave the way to a constructive dialogue with publishers about the production, work flow and marketing of monographic literature and edited volumes.