(1) Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Director of Scholarly Communication of the Modern Language Association, and Professor of Media Studies (on leave), Pomona College.  She is author of Planned Obsolescence:  Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, published in 2011 by NYU Press and previously made available for open peer review online (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence), and ofThe Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television, published in 2006 by Vanderbilt University Press.  She is co-founder of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org), and has published articles and notes in journals including the Journal of Electronic Publishing, PMLA, Contemporary Literature, and Cinema Journal.

(2) António Câmara is a Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and has been a Visiting Professor at both Cornell University (1988-89) and MIT (1998-99). He was a Senior Consultant to the Expo98 project and Senior Advisor to the National Geographical Information System. He has been CEO and Chairman of the Board at YDREAMS since it was founded.

(3) Delfim Ferreira Leão is Full Professor at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of Coimbra. Among his scientific production, a special attention is paid to ancient Greek law, Latin literature and the reception of classical culture. He also studied and translated extensively Greek and Roman authors (Solon, Pindar, Herodotus, Aristotle, Plutarch, Petronius, Martial, Apuleius). Among his most recent works are D.F. Leão, E.M. Harris & P.J. Rhodes (eds.), Law and Drama in Ancient Greece (Duckworth, London, 2010), and A globalização no mundo Antigo. Do polites ao kosmopolites (Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, forthcoming). He heads the project of the e-library Classica Digitalia; as Director of Coimbra University Press, he currently develops the digital platforms POMBALINA and IMPACTVM.

(4) Karin Byström is a librarian at Uppsala University library in Uppsala, Sweden. Works at the Section for e-resources with a special responsibility for e-books. During 2012 she is the project manager for a national project on Patron-driven acquisition as an acquisition method for academic libraries, financed by the National Library of Sweden.