From Me to You: Selling Books on a Direct Basis
As more books are sold in electronic form, they will increasingly be marketed on a direct-to-consumer basis.
Culture Trumps Technology: The UC Berkeley Scholarly Communication Report
[…] the authors demonstrate a clear understanding of the relevant literature, reaching beyond journal articles to include reports, position papers, conferences, newspapers, and blogs, the report conspicuously lacks the core literature from the sociology of science–a field dedicated to understand science […]
Kids Increase Their Media Consumption, But Many Mysteries Remain
[…] per day in 2004 to 25 minutes in 2009). Magazines usage fell from 14 to 9 minutes per day, and newspapers fell from 6 minutes to 3 minutes per day. One part of the Kaiser study focused on the well-being […]
How Not to Negotiate for Digital Rights
[…] notes that a publisher (in this case, Random House) will, among other things, introduce an author’s work to magazines and newspapers for publicity and rights sales, but doesn’t see the parallel universe that authors hope to participate in and e-books […]
Why Hasn’t Scientific Publishing Been Disrupted Already?
[…] another way, the Web was designed to disrupt scientific publishing. It was not designed to disrupt bookstores, telecommunications, matchmaking services, newspapers, pornography, stock trading, music distribution, or a great many other industries. And yet it has. It is breathtaking to […]
The End of Kirkus Reviews: Gloom, Doom, and Sunshine
[…] is not alone; it is not so long ago that the Washington Post closed down its book review, and many newspapers and magazines have scaled back or eliminated their book coverage. The New York Times Book Review, still the most […]
Suddenly, It’s 1993!
[…] iPods, podcasts, or Facebook. There was no Amazon.com, eBay, or MySpace. There were no text messages, emoticons, or thumb typing. Newspapers were still the best source of the latest news. We still didn’t quite know why modems mattered. At work, […]
The 2009 STM Frankfurt Conference
[…] as it will facilitate downloading of new content whilst traveling. I imagine this will be especially useful for things like newspapers (you can wake up to a copy of your local paper wherever one happens to be in the world) […]
A New Word: “Diffintermediation”
[…] participate in webinars and other distance learning. You check your phone, email, and feeds for news rather than relying on newspapers and magazines. Diffintermediation speaks to the changes we’re experiencing as intermediaries ourselves. Does peer-review hold the same value as […]
Guest Post — College Mergers and the Implications for Libraries and Vendors
[…] Collections Archives preserve and provide access to university records, such as meeting minutes, course catalogs, yearbooks, photos, personal papers, student newspapers, theses and dissertations, and more. In a merger, these materials come under the stewardship of the surviving institution. But […]
Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2024, Part 3
The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 3 today.
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Michael Levine-Clark
[…] thesis, I took a couple of day trips to the New York Public Library and Columbia to read nineteenth century newspapers published in English utopian communities, and that also helped build my love of libraries. The only barrier I had […]
Guest Post: The STM Integrity Hub — Connecting the Dots in a Dynamic Landscape
[…] change that we see is that the general public has increasingly become aware of these challenges. Many outlets, including leading newspapers and magazines, have covered the problem of papermills and other forms of misconduct in the last two years. Are […]
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Gaelle Bequet of ISSN International Centre (ISSN IC)
[…] ISSN IC manages an infrastructure for the production and distribution of identifiers and associated metadata for the identification of journals, newspapers, blogs, websites, and all other categories of serial publications. Metadata production is centralized in the ISSN+ tool, which launched […]
Guest Post — Shared Print & Sustainability through the Looking Glass
This is the second in our two-part series highlighting the need for shared print, as a community of membership programs working in parallel to a common goal of long term preservation and access to print resources, to evolve in order to become a more cohesive and sustainable national effort