I have a few reservations about Open Access. In some respects, that’s hardly surprising. After all, I work for a big publisher – not, admittedly, an Elsevier, but still one of the world’s largest university presses, one of those not-for-profit organisations whose deep differences from the likes of Elsevier are too commonly elided in the…
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A Bibliography of Sponges; or, can publishers mop up the backlist market?
Not much to add to this, except to note that the Google settlement is still no closer to becoming a reality… With Google’s interest in ebooks apparently on the wane, might successful e-publishers step into the breach? The announcement last week of Bloomsbury’s new venture, Bloomsbury Reader, will have prompted a few nods of recognition…
The pressfuturist manifesto 