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Peer2Politics
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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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There was the sound of small amounts of vomit being swallowed all over Twitter on Wednesday as liberal literature lovers realised that they had to praise the Chancellor George Osborne for his autumn statement. 
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When Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation launched a broadside at Google, claiming the company abuses its overwhelming market position in Europe, it looked a lot like a clash between web and print – the Information Age vs the Gutenberg Age.
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Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) publishing is big business. It generates $19 billion in revenue per year, the majority of which is earned by a few powerful publishers that enjoy profit margins of up to 40 percent. Inflated subscriptions sold to academic libraries keep them moving ahead because the librarians feel they have no choice but to buy. These companies add little value to the actual publishing product but they are entrenched.
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People pay for access and exclusivity, not for stupid copies. You need to develop your sense of business accordingly, and think about your business model as a book author.
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Nick Chowdrey is a business and technology writer and proud digital native. Currently based in Brighton, UK, he is a technical writer at Crunch Accounting and co-founder of Brighton-based bitcoin community Bitcoin Brighton. Here, he explores how bitcoin can play a part in the business of online content.
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As the number of Open Access articles in the scientific market grows, many wonder where we are headed. Is the road ahead "gold" or "green"? What difference does it make? Will the shift to OA prove a boon — or disaster — to scholarly research and publication? Find out these answers and more as Kaufman suggests considerations for publishers to take into account when developing an open access business model.
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The University of Central Lancashire's self-publishing MA begins in September and will train students on editing, layout, finance management, marketing and ePublishing, according to the school website's program description. The final part of the course will provide students with a chance to complete a finished copy of their own book.
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Publishing has evolved drastically over the past two decades, proving to be one of the industries most disrupted by the advent and proliferation of the internet.
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A quarter century has passed since Russell Jacoby coined the term "public intellectuals" in a book meant to mark their extinction. In The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe, published in 1987, Jacoby defined public intellectuals as "writers and thinkers who address a general and educated audience." The term was new, he explained, but there had been public intellectuals for centuries: "The greatest minds from Galileo to Freud have not been content with private discoveries; they sought, and found, a public." Since the 1960s, their numbers, never high, had been plummeting. Lewis Mumford and Edmund Wilson were born in 1895, Walter Lippmann in 1889. By 1987, Wilson and Lippmann were dead and Mumford was in decline. Where, Jacoby wanted to know, were the young Mumfords and Lippmanns and Wilsons? There were none.
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Tell your story any way you'd like. Publish words, pictures, podcasts and more to a website that you control - and share to social networks like Twitter and Facebook.
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A discussion text engaging with the current regime of academic publishing in the light of debates over "Gold Open Access".
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I further developed possible scenarios from the open peer review on. After addressing reviewer comments in a revised manuscript, I consider publishing my article on researchgate. Yes, this would be the first time an independent scientist publishes his own work on an open access platform with prior peer review and more as I will explain now.
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After 17 years of success online, leading independent music publication Pitchfork just put out its inaugural print edition. In the introductory letter, The Pitchfork Review sets forth the desire to stand the test of time and proposes that readers can one day pass the issue on to their children “as a time capsule of sorts.”
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How journal publishers are profiting at the expense of taxpayers, researchers, and universities.
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GNU MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing system for the web. It's a freedom-respecting replacement for sites like Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, and Thingiverse. We've come pretty far, but we need you to join our goblin force and help us take back the net!
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Astute readers will have noticed that we’ve begun publishing our "Open Voices" eBooks in the ePub format. Now, some of our best essays and interviews are available as lightweight and portable files, and can be read on any electronic reading device that supports this open standard.
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