Day before yesterday (Tuesday), the University of Michigan Press announced that it was no longer doing press runs of scholarly monographs. Henceforth, says the announcement, 50 of the 60 monographs published annually will be done "only as digital … [Continue reading]
Riffing on Tamblyn’s “6 Things”, Part 1
Michael Tamblyn, the smart and dynamic leader of Booknet Canada who has performed minor miracles with the Canadian supply chain, gave a talk at his company's tech forum a fortnight ago that has gotten a lot of deserved attention. It's 30 minutes … [Continue reading]
A slightly different take on the Google settlement
I have read and listened to a lot of dialogue about the Google settlement. I'm not a lawyer and I'm not a librarian or archivist and I'm not a scholar who would be interested in those "non-consumptive uses" I didn't know about before this all … [Continue reading]
This ebook thing is just going to get more complicated
Adam Hodgkin at the Exact Editions blog posted a piece that explains the ebook strategies of Apple, Amazon, and Google in simple terms. Hodgkin's piece really helps think things through, but I think his analysis is a bit oversimplified (which is part … [Continue reading]
Music stories: a bit about The Drongos
My wife, Martha Moran, and I managed a rock and roll band 25 years ago. They were called The Drongos. They were four intrepid young New Zealanders who had come to America with an itinerant theatrical troupe and stayed when the itinerants moved on. … [Continue reading]
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