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What’s the Problem with Self-Publishing?
This timely article by Josh Hadro was posted on the Library Journal website last week and points out the major barriers faced by self-published books in becoming a viable part of a library’s collection. Mr. Hadro notes that despite the success of self- published authors like [...]
Read More... →Scholars Increasingly Use Online Resources, Survey Finds, but They Value Traditional Formats Too
In this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jennifer Howard reports on the 2012 Ithaka survey of faculty attitudes, which went public yesterday. In spite of all the buzz about open access, the article has [...]
Read More... →The Future of Publishing is a special supplement from Nature that “takes a close look at the forces now at work in scientific publishing, and how they may play out over the coming decades.” Naturally, open access gets a lot of attention but other developments like “cloud computing, crowd sourcing and ubiquitous sharing” [...]
Read More... →Books aren’t dead yet an article by Laura Miller for Salon claims that self-publishing and ebook promoters keep getting it wrong. It sounds counter intuitive given the tremendous growth of the ebook market but Ms. Miller makes the case that authors want to be in print and [...]
Read More... →In Win for Libraries Over Publishers, Supreme Court Upholds Reselling of Foreign Books
The is no doubt that the big news this week is the Supreme Court’s decision in Kirtsaeng vs. John Wiley. A number of articles have reported on the ruling but this article by Jennifer Howard in the Chronicle of Higher [...]
Read More... →Imagining a Swap Meet for E-Books and Music is a New York Times piece by David Streitfeld that points out how “severely limited” your ownership rights are when you buy an ebook. He notes that you can’t resell it or give it away as you can a print book. In fact, he claims that [...]
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