ALPSP announces trial Open Access option

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), have announced that their journal Learned Publishing will have a trial Open Access option. 

With the ’ALPSP Author Choice‘, authors can choose to make the online version of their article freely available to all immediately on publication. You can read the press release on the ALPSP web site.

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Posted on 31 Jul 2007 around 8am

University Publishing in a Digital Age

Ithaka has released University Publishing in a Digital Age by Laura Brown, Rebecca Griffiths, and Matthew Rascoff (preface by Kevin Guthrie).

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Posted on 28 Jul 2007 around 9pm

‘Expresso’: Print on demand books at the New York Public Library—and a possible in

Even high-contrast flavors of E Ink won’t please the really picky. But maybe they’ll go for the print-on-demand titles they can “brew” up via the “Expresso” machine at the NYPL (Engadget and GalleyCat via Peter Brantley). Most of the printable titles are apparently in the public domain. But what about the copyright issues for those that aren’t? Any special arrangements that NYPL has made with publishers? I’d assume they exist. If so, how about moving on to copies e-books that patrons could legally keep, as long as they didn’t redistribute them? Use quotas and social DRM if need be. But do experiment.

Detail: Other Expressos are on the way to other libraries, including in New Orleans. See news release from OnDemandBooks.

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Posted on 23 Jun 2007 around 5pm

Librarians respond to global e-book survey with some interesting results

A recent survey commissioned by ebrary who operate in the library and publishing sectors, has found users of e-books don’t rely on Google to search for content. They received responses from 552 individual libraries, the majority of which were academic…

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Posted on 23 Jun 2007 around 11am

Open Publication Structure 2.0 Elevated to IDPF Member & Public Review

Nick Bogarty from the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) writes that the Open Publication Structure (OPS) 2.0 has been elevated for IDPF Member and Public Review.  The review period will begin today and extend for 30 days ending on Wednesday, May 16th, 2007.  The IDPF strongly encourages feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether IDPF members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of IDPF work.

Sourced at Gilbane Group Publishing Practice Blog

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Posted on 23 Jun 2007 around 11am

Warnings of ‘internet overload’

BBC Click investigates claims of the internet collapsing under pressure from the YouTube generation.

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Posted on 23 Jun 2007 around 10am

The book publishing process - why does it cost so much?

In a three part series, Dave Young provides a nice explanation of the book publishing process starting from the idea for a book to the point of sale, pointing out the parts which entail costs.

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Posted on 05 Apr 2007 around 3pm

Digital Publishing is Publishing

From the Booksellers Association: We hear of the latest salvo in the battle of the omnivores versus publishers in today’s Telegraph. The report states that publishers are converting thousands of titles in order that they mitigate the threat of the likes of Google stealing them or capturing the ebook market when it finally takes off.

If we step back and remove the emotion of digitisation, we can clearly see it’s not about ebooks. Neither is it about which ebook technology will prevail. It is also not about the consolidation of digital content onto the mobile phone and MP3. It’s about the wake up call to publishers.

Digital publishing is publishing ...

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Posted on 30 Mar 2007 around 5pm