http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/12/atg-i-wonder-wednesday-should-traditional-publishers-and-scholarly-presses-provide-services-to-enable-faculty-to-self-publish/ Linking librarians, publishers and vendors Sat, 18 May 2013 19:36:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/12/atg-i-wonder-wednesday-should-traditional-publishers-and-scholarly-presses-provide-services-to-enable-faculty-to-self-publish/comment-page-1/#comment-41537 gilsont Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:35:30 +0000 http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=21678#comment-41537 The question tried asking whether traditional publishers should offer services to faculty similar to those services being offered by folks like Smashwords and Booktango to independent authors of popular fiction and non-fiction. This might be particularly relevant in the self-publishing of textbooks and instructional materials but it might also extend to self-publishing research liked data sets; surveys and maybe even monographs and articles. The question tried asking whether traditional publishers should offer services to faculty similar to those services being offered by folks like Smashwords and Booktango to independent authors of popular fiction and non-fiction. This might be particularly relevant in the self-publishing of textbooks and instructional materials but it might also extend to self-publishing research liked data sets; surveys and maybe even monographs and articles.

]]> http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/12/atg-i-wonder-wednesday-should-traditional-publishers-and-scholarly-presses-provide-services-to-enable-faculty-to-self-publish/comment-page-1/#comment-41526 Evan Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:12:49 +0000 http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=21678#comment-41526 Forgive what is surely just a lack of imagination on my part, but if <i>publishers</i> are providing services to enable people to <i>publish</i> their work, how is this not just the traditional work of publishing? And where does <i>self-publishing</i> come into it? Or does this question just turn on a really contrived sense of what <i>traditional</i> publishing means? I don't even know where to begin in responding to the poll; I'm not even sure what you're asking. Forgive what is surely just a lack of imagination on my part, but if publishers are providing services to enable people to publish their work, how is this not just the traditional work of publishing? And where does self-publishing come into it? Or does this question just turn on a really contrived sense of what traditional publishing means? I don’t even know where to begin in responding to the poll; I’m not even sure what you’re asking.

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