Author/Creator
a) Thinking and Reflecting
b) Data Collection
c) Data Analysis
d) Composing
e) Revising
f) Representing
Publisher
a) General and Administrative (G&A)
b) Acquisition (Peer Review/Selection/Acquiring Rights)
c) Marketing/Sales/Promotion
d) Distribution (Fulfillment/Storage/Freight)
e) Financing (Cost of Financing)
f) Managing Rights and Protections
g) Manufacturing
h) Copyediting/Design
i) Royalties
j) In-house Authorship
Intermediary
a) Acquiring (Selection/Acquiring Rights)
b) Editorial (Abstracts/Indexes/Surrogate Preparation)
c) Managing Rights/Royalties
d) Marketing/Sales/Promotion
e) Production/Distribution
f) General and Administrative (G&A)
g) Financing
h) Research and Development/Product Development
i) Data Preparation
Buyer
a) Selecting
b) Acquisition/De-acquisition (Cancellation)
c) Intellectual Organization
-Preparing Surrogates, Representations
d) Storage
e) Preservation and Archiving
f) Training, Retraining, and Support (Customer/Staff)
g) Access and Delivery
h) Diffusion (Publicity)
i) General and Administrative
Reader/User/Consumer
a) Informal Peer Communication
b) Searching and Evaluating
c) Acquiring
d) Using
e) Recognizing