Inside Higher Ed‘s Scott McLemee made the rounds at BEA to investigate academic publishing’s e-books strategy. His report appears in today’s edition.

Shifting to digital is not the quick, smooth, cost-free move that it’s sometime made out to be. For one thing, it’s necessary to invest considerable time and resources into figuring out just what your options are. For small presses, it can simply make more sense to stick with what you have a track record doing.