The publishing wave of the future for scholars will be open access: electronic books freely available on the web. Scholars rarely make money on their monographs. And few individuals or libraries can afford to buy from print publishers all of the monographs they’d like to access (think dollar/page Brill books). Open Access is the solution. Now we just have to get scholars and tenure review committees to accept it.
http://bibleandancientneareast.blogspot.com/2008/04/open-access-monograph-series-that.html