"That as the impact of digital distribution begins to be felt along the trade publishing value chain, what will emerge is not a NEW VALUE CHAIN as much as a new VALUE WEB, an environment that sees, not one way to generate value in the industry but many ways of doing so. What’s more, this state will persist because no particular method will emerge as the single ‘way’ of trade publishing (if that term even retains relevance), at least not for some time to come."

The workshops have started for the "Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success" project , supported by a collaborative planning gra...

Our tendency to efface the digital laborer, as well as the work of editors, designers, etc., is precisely what enables the widespread belief that e-books are necessarily cheaper to produce than paper books, as if the cost of the book lay in the printing.

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Scholarly multimedia "book" publishing.

When "no competing works" in a book contract means "you'll never write anything again, ever."

John Scalzi put together a bingo card of hackneyed arguments for electronic publishing. I figure it's only right to return the favor...  Two squares are the same on both cards. I thought it was worth stressing that both sides use them.  Lest anybody think I'm descending into satire with the Shakespeare square, it was in the New York Times. I admit that it's otherwise so obviously contrary to fact that I'd feel silly including it at all.  (For those who don't know me, I am a professional copyeditor, and I love my career. Almost all my work comes from traditional publishers. This is why I care about well-meaning but misguided arguments that damage my own industry.)

How Netflix uses aggregated user data to place bets on creating content. Is there a player in epublishing-land ready to do similarly?

Because someone had to do it, and why not me. For those of you unfamiliar with the “Bingo Card” concept, basically, if you see one or more of your favorite arguments for how ZOMG EPUBBI…

Journals that consider an online poster posting to be "prior publication." At a guess, they're not keen on preprints either.

Technology is changing how we get books and how books find us. Lamentations for the bookstore are the background music of our time, but the picture is more complex.

Help choosing a POD vendor.

The advent of eBooks has pushed the publishing industry to adopt software and UX design practices.

On alternatives to peer review.

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