Interesting, Sarbajit. Thanks. N -----Original Message----- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Sarbajit Roy Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 9:20 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing
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-elsevie > r-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 ============================================================ 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
