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01 Jan 10

FT.com / Comment / Op-Ed Columnists - Text is free, we make our money on volume(s)

A 2007 article on why making books freely available on the Internet works.

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The internet makes copying cheap
Yochai Benkler is a prominent academic.
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- Benkler’s book is available for free online under a Creative Commons license. Instead of paying $40 one can simply download the book. Its sales are reportedly in the top rank of academic books. Benkler is delighted with the additional 20,000 readers who have downloaded it
- Of course, these experiments are marginal. They are being tried by those in non-traditional genres, or those who can afford to gamble. At the moment, the numbers are small. But most innovation happens on the margins. It would be just as wrong for us to conclude that these experiments represent the future as to assume they do not.
- Who is least likely to try free digital distribution? The blockbuster author.

10 Nov 09

Bloomsbury Academic | Innovative Content

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28 Aug 09

Issuu - You Publish

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19 Jul 09

Calaméo – Publish and share documents

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26 May 09

How I Sold My Book by Giving It Away | Open Culture

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09 May 09

The article goes on to examine three specific breaking points. The first breaking point is in business models — the unsustainable costs and inefficiencies of traditional commercial publishing, the rise of open access and the challenge of developing sustainable publishing models.

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disruptive journal publishing peerreview

These not only portend potential transformations in the form of the journal, but possibly also in the knowledge systems that the journal in its heritage form has supported. These disruptive forces are represented by changing technological, economic, distributional, geographic, interdisciplinary and social relations to knowledge. The article goes on to examine three specific breaking points. The first breaking point is in business models — the unsustainable costs and inefficiencies of traditional commercial publishing, the rise of open access and the challenge of developing sustainable publishing models. The second potential breaking point is the credibility of the peer review system: its accountability, its textual practices, the validity of its measures and its exclusionary network effects. The third breaking point is post–publication evaluation, centered primarily around citation or impact analysis.

24 Mar 09

Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky

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05 Feb 09

Academic Evolution: Peer Review is Vanity Publishing

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Movie poster slogan: Peer Review--Though it may check error, its terror is unchecked.

10 Jul 08

Textbook Piracy Grows Online, Prompting a Counterattack From Publishers - Chronicle.com

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College students are increasingly downloading illegal copies of textbooks online, employing the same file-trading technologies used to download music and movies. Feeling threatened, book publishers are stepping up efforts to stop the online piracy.
Textbook Torrents, promises more than 5,000 textbooks for download in PDF format, complete with the original textbook layout and full-color illustrations. Users must simply set up a free account and download a free software program that uses a popular peer-to-peer system called BitTorrent. Other textbook-download sites are even easier to use, offering digital books at the click of a mouse.
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- So far the publishing group has not sought to take legal action against individual student downloaders, as the Recording Industry Association of America has done in its campaign to stamp out the illegal trading of music at colleges. The book-publishing group has not sought to shut down entire Web sites that offer downloads either, said Mr. McCoyd. Instead, officials are doing research on the extent of the problem and asking Web-site owners to remove individual files. "We've just tried to keep sweeping away these infringements as they continue to come online," he said.
- Individual academic publishers have also taken steps to stop book pirates.
- "We have been fairly vigorous in monitoring these sites and in requesting that they take down our copyrighted content,"
- One place their titles keep popping up is Scribd, a document-sharing Web site that opened this year. The site's policies do not allow users to post copyrighted content without permission, but some people break the rules.
- He said that if the problem worsens, publishers may have to take other steps to prevent piracy, such as releasing a new version of most textbooks every semester. The versions could include slight modifications that could be changed easily—such as altering the numbers in math problems.
  
  "They may compelled to," he said, "in order to stay one step ahead of the pirates."
  - Wrong response. Instead of trying to force students into a model that doesn't work any longer, why not give them what they want and need? Look at MIT OpenCourseWare, Berkeley course content on iTunes, Flat World Knowledge, the California Open Source Project, Connexions. Heck! Look at OpenSource software such as Linux, Firefox, OpenOffice. THIS is the new model and companies will need to figure out a way to monetize this in a way that works for everyone. - on 2008-07-10
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05 Jul 08

Self Publishing - Lulu.com

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27 May 08

Flat World Knowledge LLC

Coming in 2009--free, opensource textbooks for profs and students and reasonably-priced hard copy and multimedia resources. Profs can edit textbook materials for local needs. Thanks to Ewan McIntosh for posting this on his d account.

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03 May 08

COVERITLIVE.COM - Home

Your commentary publishes in real time like an instant message. Our ‘one-click’ publishing lets you drop polls, videos, pictures, ads and audio clips as soon as they come to mind. Comments and questions from your readers instantly appear but you contr

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03 Jan 08

Publisher Gets Web Readers to Fill the Pages of Its Magazines - New York Times

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03 Oct 07

University of Connecticut Faculty Senate Resolution on Scholarly Communication

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