Aram Zucker-Scharff

Crowdfunding a Niche Book on Two Continents Pays Off : Publishing Perspectives: ebookporn:

The beauty of digital publishing is how it allows you to publish to niche audiences economically but finding that audience can be a challenge. Liz Castro walks …

Open-access scientific publishing is gaining ground:

In February the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy told federal agencies to make similar plans. A week before that, a bill which would require free access to government-financed research after six months had begun to wend its way through Congress.

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It has, they would have to admit, been a good bash. The current enterprise—selling the results of other people’s work, submitted free of charge and vetted for nothing by third parties in a process called peer review, has been immensely profitable.

Good. 

Is the Nook over?: The problem was not so much the extent of the losses, but what the losses might signal: that the digital approach that Barnes & Noble has been heavily investing in as its future for the last several years has essentially run its course.

futurejournalismproject:

Textbooks, 812% More Expensive Than 1978
With a new semester almost upon us, it’s time to figure out why college textbooks are so absurdly expensive.