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The support infrastructure for entities to publish is growing but the most important piece may not yet be provided

November 11, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 6 Comments

I remember a song lyric from the early 70s for which the opening line was: “we don’t need more sailors, we need a captain”. (I can’t find the reference in LyricFind and I don’t remember the name of the band.) That song could be about the new publishing that is arising from the phenomenon of […]

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