Tag Archives: publishing

The New University Press

By alex | Published: 6/16/2010
The future of the book, and of the publishing industry, has far less to do with what you produce, and far more to do with enabling an ongoing conversation. This isn’t news to any of you, you live it. But it’s easy, in the midst of a project, to get seduced by the myth that [...]
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Book triage

By alex | Published: 7/1/2008
With most of the loose paper now in electronic form, I’ve been starting to make slow progress in scanning some of the books. In practice however, I’m not scanning my entire library, and I’m not scanning it right away. As I go through the books, I find they fall into several categories: Give away I was surprised [...]
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November 17: Battle over Books

By alex | Published: 11/13/2005
I’m headed to the New York Public Library this Thursday for the Battle Over Books panel: “The Battle Over Books: Authors & Publishers Take on the Google Print Library Project” will feature a provocative discussion about the competing interests and issues raised by Google’s Print Library Project, hosted by LIVE from the NYPL and Wired Magazine. [...]
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Yahoo Will Scan Books

By alex | Published: 10/3/2005
Google ran into a snag on their digitization project, but let’s see what a little bit of open content competition will do for the process. The New York Times is running an article on the Open Content Alliance. The interesting difference here is that the OCA is based on many hands making light work. Rather than [...]
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Dead Libraries

By alex | Published: 11/26/2003
Academic libraries are the walking dead. I just got booted out of ours at six, and it won’t be open tomorrow. They close early on Saturdays, too. Our library seems closed, of course, whenever I seem to need it. They even seem to turn off their servers many nights, for reasons that are entirely beyond [...]
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Scholcom conference

By alex | Published: 10/3/2003
The web site for next month’s one-day scholarly communication conference is up. Looks like it will be fun. Here’s the blurb: PUBLISHING THE FUTURE: Scholarly Communication in an Information Age November 11, 2003 Academic publishing and scholarly communication more generally are undergoing a period of rapid change. Positive change comprises a wealth of Web based services for pre-print [...]
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