I have interests in a niche family publishing business in history / social sciences in India.. But we mainly publish European authors (the Romance langages) in excellent quality in small runs (ie. low thousands) which nobody else handles..
Authors: http://www.transbooks.com/auth.html We publish print journals / books at 30% (possiby less) of what it would cost in the USA.without compromising quality. On 2/15/12, Nicholas Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Thanks, Russ. > Why, exactly, do we need them anyway. Can't any list of a hundred experts > (like FRIAM, for instance) become a peer-review journal with everything > published to the web? I have wondered about this before. Let's say we > announce the FRIAM journal of Complexity Science and Scatology. Now, > anybody can send us a paper 5 dollars and somebody will read it and assign > to it a number of stars, lets say between 0 and 5. Now, when the author > receives the review, he may publish the paper with the assigned number of > stars, or he may revise the paper. Readers of the "journal" can set number > of stars as a reading criterion. We could have a second popularity index, > for people, not on the editorial board, express approval or disapproval for > an article. > > Some one of you is doing this already, right? Who? Where? How's it > working. > > Nick > > > From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf > Of Russ Abbott > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 10:14 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing > > See this NYT article > <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/science/researchers-boycott-elsevier-jour > nal-publisher.html> and sign up here <http://thecostofknowledge.com/> . > > > -- Russ Abbott > _____________________________________________ > > Professor, Computer Science > California State University, Los Angeles > > Google voice: 747-999-5105 > > Google+: https://plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ > > vita: <http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/> > http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ > _____________________________________________ > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Nicholas Thompson > <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > Hi, everybody, > > > > I have signed perhaps a dozen Publishers Agreements over my life time and > each one was more onerous, self-serving, and stupid than the one before. My > favorite was the publisher who asked me to "hold the Publisher harmless for > anything that might occur as a consequence of the publishing of the work." > I asked a lawyer if this meant I was liable if a printer got his hand caught > in the press while my book was running and he answered, "Well, probably > not." And then he thought for a moment and said, "Oh, they'ld never come > after you for that!" Early contracts limited my liability to the income from > royalties, and one publisher actually provided authors' insurance for a > modest premium. But no more. > > > > Well today, I got an author's contract for a paper I am contributed to an > academic collection that asked me to warrant that the work had been > commissioned by the publisher and was "work for hire". Now, work for hire > means that one's surrenders ALL rights to the work including the right to > claim it as one's own work. It's the kind of contract you sign when you > write jacket copy for a publisher. ( The publisher in this case was Oxford > University Press, in case any of you are thinking of doing business with > them.) I am a wishy washy fellow, but somehow I could not sign a document > that said that my original work was "work for hire." Couldn't do it. > > > > It's too late for this work. I will have to sign the rights over to my > [young] collaborator, because she desperately needs the paper for her > career. But MAN! It got me to thinking. WHAT ABOUT self publishing. With, > say, Amazon" Does anybody on the list have any experience with Amazon or > other self publishing services that they would like to share? > > > > My Dad was a book publisher, and I grew up with conversations around the > dinner table about "developing authors" and trying to find new authors, and > how a few books might have to be published before a new author caught on. > They published Churchill's Memoires and Mein Kampf (!) and the Peterson > Field Guides, among many others. Now, it seems, publishers do very little, > and academic publishers, in particular, do nothing but scavenge off the > fetid bits coughed up the publish or perish system. Is is it time to dump > them? I am sure this is a party I am late to. Where do I get invited. > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > http://www.cusf.org <http://www.cusf.org/> > > > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
