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Give your book away
great summary of the arguments for the freemium publishing strategy
Cory Doctorow: Authors have lost the plot in Amazon Kindle battle | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Amazon's Kindle 2 text-to-speech feature is not so much violating authors' copyright but rather basic consumer rights
Publishers denounce JISC open access report - Information World Review
Publishers have reacted angrily to a JISC report that sharing research information via open access (OA) would save higher education millions, condemning it as “a think piece resting on a number of assumptions mostly derived from the authors’ own estimates
Angela Maiers Tests the Waters of Digital Publishing : John Connell: The Blog
anyone who dismisses this kind of venture as mere vanity publishing really and simply does not appreciate the barrier to useful and worthwhile books that has been kept in place for so long by the traditional publishing industry. Digital publishing will br
How E-Books Make (A Lot Of) Cents - Forbes.com
Many people, both inside and outside of the publishing and media industry, are skeptical about the potential of paid content on mobile phones, especially given the troubled history of e-books. I beg to differ. In December 2008, O'Reilly's "iPhone: The Mis
The Book Market Stares At Ubiquity
"We've seen this in every form of media that goes digital. It moves from an economy of scarcity to an economy of ubiquity. I have way more music today than ever before. I listen to at least a half dozen artists every day and sometimes a couple dozen. Same
Major Book Publishers Start Turning To Scribd
Online document sharing site Scribd has announced that it has partnered with a number of major publishers, including Random House, Simon & Schuster, Workman Publishing Co., Berrett-Koehler, Thomas Nelson, and Manning Publications, to legally offer some of
Creative Destruction and Copyright | The Technology Liberation Front
the newspaper industry is in the same death spiral as the recording industry, without the lawbreaking that’s commonly blamed for the recording industry’s troubles.
Resisting the Kindle - The Atlantic (March 2, 2009)
Sven Birkerts is not happy about what the Kindle will do to books and reading: "Why, then, am I so uneasy about the page-to-screen transfer—a skeptic if not a downright resister? Perhaps it is because I see in the turning of literal pages—pages bound in l
Publishing Archaeology: Financial viability of open access
"Gold OA" (open access journals). There is another route, "Greeen OA" (self-archiving). If authors would simply deposit their reprints (or pre-prints) into an institutional repository, we can achieve the goals of OA much more quickly. And this is somethin
A Blog Around The Clock : The Open Laboratory 2008 is here!
the third science blogging anthology, The Open Lab 2008, is now up for sale!
The Business of Academic Publishing
A Strategic Analysis of the Academic Journal Publishing Industry and its Impact on the Future of Scholarly Publishing
Tim O'Reilly makes the argument for Open Publishing @ TOC 2009 on Vimeo
Drawing upon his real world experiences, Tim O'Reilly shares his thoughts on Open Publishing, why its a good idea, and how to make it work. This video was taken on the floor of the 2009 O'Reilly Tools of Change conference in New York City.
Toward the Design of an Open Monograph Press
This paper reviews and addresses the critical issues currently confronting monograph publishing as a matter of reduced opportunities for scholars to pursue book-length projects. In response, it proposes an alternative approach to monograph publishing base
6 Ways to Publish Your Own Book
Online self-publishing services have given users the tools they need to create, publish and promote their work. These sites allow authors to bypass the process of finding an agent and pitching to publishing houses, a venture that can take months, if not y
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