Any model for e-book publishing must have a business model for recouping the expenses of production: reviewing, editing, formatting, design, etc. In this section, we'll review methods that can be used to support open-access e-book publishing.
In 2009 Cory Doctorow put together a collection of short stories called "With a Little Help" and documented the process of publishing it in a series of columns on Publisher's Weekly. He used a variety of business models to support the project, as detailed below, and the e-book version was released under a Creative Common License.