The Executive Summary of this new title from MediaCommonsPress is now available online, free of charge. We have, in the course of interaction with participating institutions, seen considerable interest in the revival of the African university press. The challenge remains how to use current technologies and insights around evolved business models to avoid the pitfalls of the past and embrace collaboration in this area. How do we start to imagine the new open-access African university press of the future that works as a pioneer in collaborative peer review and processes and is built on open standards?