Another input from Harvard:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/04/24/1816217/harvard-journals-too-expensive-switch-to-open-access
*Harvard recently sent a memo to faculty saying, 'We write to communicate
an untenable situation facing the Harvard Library. Many large journal
publishers have made the
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Another input from Harvard:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/04/24/1816217/harvard-journals-too-expensive-switch-to-open-access
Harvard recently sent a memo to faculty saying, 'We write
One of the first casualties of the increasing cost of journals was books. When
the prices of journals that faculty deemed absolutely necessary to have in the
library went up, there was no money left to buy new books or other materials.
Ed
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Founding Director, Art, Research,
Although I am no fan of the present broken publishing system, the recent posts
have led me to think about the steps that an author has to go through to get a
book out. If you look at what it takes, all the proposed alternatives don't
solve the problem for an author. I'm addressing my comments
About five years ago, I was in the NYC audience of a speech given by Don Lamm
(whom many of you might know--lives in Santa Fe, former chmn of the board of W.
W. Norton). The audience was mixed authors and publishing types. Among other
things, Don was saying, authors: you better provide your own
And the answer is... (imagine envelop being held to forehead)
Amazon self-publishing.
Do your own typesetting.
Do your own proofreading, indexing, etc.
Do your own promotion.
Hire an editor to do copy editing.
Collect [[ !! 70% !! ]] royalties every month.
--Doug
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 9:15
Well, maybe.
But I'd be willing to bet that if a big-name physicist were to publish a
physics text, with the intent that it become the standard for teaching
his/her physics specialty, Wiley would find themselves sucking vacuum.
Say, for example, that George Smoot wanted to self-publish
a
all this stuff requires time, work and risks. Who does it for free?
Bob Lancaster
On Apr 20, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Joseph Spinden wrote:
Here's an article I came across today:
Opinion: Academic Publishing Is Broken | The Scientist
Most definitely not me.
--Doug
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Robert Lancaster rl...@cybermesa.comwrote:
all this stuff requires time, work and risks. Who does it for free?
Bob Lancaster
On Apr 20, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Joseph Spinden wrote:
Here's an article I came across today:
It has been 50 years since major physicists played any role in the
creation of intro-level physics textbooks, as opposed to
graduate-level texts. The then-exceptions were the Nobelists Richard
Feynman (The Feynman Lectures on Physics) and Ed Purcell
(Electromagnetism in the Berkeley Series).
It
Given the rapid advancement in digital publishing opportunities over the past
few years, I'm not sure exactly how much more difficult this is for a lesser
known scientist. The conversion of LaTeX to ebook problem remains, but if you
are in a field that does not need carefully-formatted specialized
There is a crucial sociological issue that applied and still applies
with a vengeance in our own intro physics case. The intro
calculus-based course taken by engineering and science students is
very large in engineering schools, often involving 1000 or more
students. It is a very complex course,
Here's an article I came across today:
Opinion: Academic Publishing Is Broken | The Scientist
http://the-scientist.com/2012/03/19/opinion-academic-publishing-is-broken/
This started me thinking about what services publishers perform in
general. As this article points out, for the
This has already been done. See, for instance, Amazon's CreateSpace
(previously known as BookSurge). There is also a competitor based in
Canada, whose name I have unfortunately forgotten. Both paper and
eBook is supported.
Editing, typesetting you can source yourself, or you can avail
yourself of
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