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Print-on-Demand and the Law of Unintended Consequences
In this recent article in Library Journal, Rick Anderson finds a “scary” and disruptive threat in a place that may surprise some folks. He worries about the disruptive potential of Print-on-Demand. Although dependent on the latest in technology, POD might strike some as more a step [...]
Read More... →Digital rights management: downloads, downers and a call for PDF publishing
In this article in the Guardian, Jefferson Pooley, associate professor in media and communication at Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania makes the outlandish claim that “we need book formats we can annotate, search, print and share.” In short, scholars need ebooks they can use. [...]
Read More... →Need Library E-Books to Feed Your New Gadget? Here’s the Answer, is an thought provoking article by David Rothman posted in TeleRead a few weeks ago. In it he advocates “a well-stocked national digital library system—in fact, two of them—one public, one academic.”
Obviously the number of ebook “gadgets” [...]
Read More... →This recent post on the NPR website entitled Why Traditional Publishing Is Really In A ‘Golden Age’ discusses an interview with Michael Pietsch, soon-to-be CEO of the traditional publisher Hachette Book Group. In the interview Mr. Pietsch claims that “we’re in a golden age for books — reading, writing and publishing,” and argues for the [...]
Read More... →5 Academic Publishing Trends to Watch in 2013
George Lossius, CEO of Publishing Technology, provides some food for thought in this recent piece on future trends in academic publishing. Noting that 2012 was an “eventful, some would even say turbulent, year” Mr. Lossius predicts more of the same for the coming year.
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Read More... →Has the e-book bubble burst? is an article by David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic that offers his take on a Wall Street Journal piece entitled Don’t Burn Your Books—Print Is Here to Stay by Nicholas Carr that argues the e-book bubble may have burst. (Carr has raised similar questions [...]
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