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Self-Publishing Reinvents the Novel

The novel is about novelty. Self-publishing is just the latest option for authors. Some argue that it’s reinventing literature.

A journal begins requiring authors to submit peer-reviewed pages to Wikipedia. Is this a great idea?

When you have to walk the talk, you end up self-publishing. Can it succeed for a work of fiction?

Has the iPhone put the Kindle in the corner? Or will users be predictably irrational and complicate things for publishers?

The Blackberry Storm looks to be a weak clipper system rather than a hurricane. Meanwhile, the iPhone may be poised to control the weather.

Sure, the news is a commodity now, but perhaps losing the data is what triggered the beginning of the end for newspapers.

YouTube is the #2 search engine in the world. Will digital natives be more video-centric than text-centric?

Improving transparency and accountability in biomedical publishing has turned authorship into a legal system.

Professionalism of science has given face to invisible technicians and collaborators and can partly explain the growth in authorship.

Content from yesteryear no longer works in the modern world. We have to re-imagine.

Can nearly 3,000 individuals really be authors on a single paper?

Do publishers really believe in what they do? Or have they essentially thrown in the towel?

What can be learned about science and publishing from the El Naschie controversy?

Controversial self-publishing editor, El Naschie, to step down in 2009. Professional affiliations cast in doubt.

An editor who publishes five of his own articles is the center of a controversy in math publishing.