Publishing
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VDM or Verlag Dr. Mueller Has a New Tactic
I’ve written about VDM (Verlag Dr. Mueller), an exploitive academic/scholarly mill before. Writer Beware writer advocate and writer Victoria Strauss notes that VDM has a new wrinkle: . . . a company called…
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Ebook Pricing vs Print Pricing
It really isn’t that much cheaper to produce an ebook. The binding/printing costs are depending on the book and the binding and the numbers printed somewhere around 1 to 3 bucks a book,…
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Harper Collins Wants to Limit Library Circulation of Ebooks
Apparently because of Overdrive’s recent release of an ebook client for iPhones and iPad (read more about Overdrive and library ebooks here and here), Harper Collins has responded by announcing that new Harper…
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LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing AG & Co. KG and VDM Verlag Dr Mueller
About six months after I filed and defended my dissertation at UCLA, I received the following email from LAP Lambert: Dear Lisa Spangenberg , While researching publishable academic papers at the Library of…
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The Academy Doesn’t Prepare Humanists for Publishing Professionally
When I was filling out all the paperwork for filing at UCLA, not even the library seemed terribly clued in to copyright. For instance, as part of the filing process, UCLA students are…
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Two Graphic Explanations of why DRM doesn’t work
DRM really doesn’t work; it doesn’t even slow down pirates, but it frustrates honest users, and programmers. Here are two clear explanations of why it doesn’t work to protect artists, creators and publishers.…
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O’Reilly DRMless High Quality Technical Ebooks
O’Reilly is one of my very favorite technical book publishers, right up there with Peach Pit and Take Control Ebooks. O’Reilly earned a reputation almost immediately for reliable, useful high quality books about…
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Steve Jobs on Copyright
“If copyright dies, if patents die, if the protection of intellectual property is eroded, then people will stop investing. That hurts everyone. People need to have the incentive that if they invest and…
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Font Geek
Just a quick post about Ben Levisay’s Font Geek site. He’s offering lots of good information about fonts and Mac OS X, ranging from information about how fonts are organized and used in…
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More from Others on the Berman-Coble p2p Bill
See what happens when I waste my time working on my dissertation ? I miss really thoughtful and intelligent posts, like this DaveNet piece from Dave Winer. Read the whole thing, but I…