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• “For a better future of the people it’s possible to disseminate the knowledge by publishing innovative books freely accessible to anyone in the world who might be interested.” – From the manifesto of Polimetrica, an open-access publisher – real books, free ebooks (via Digital Koans).
• Meet blook, son of blog, on the new frontier of publishing – The Times reports on the web-to-print industry. Personally, it seems like a pretty short-term workaround, but there’s definitely a lot of it about. But the article highlights a bigger danger: confusing new publishing with self-publishing.
• Buying ebooks at physical stores – The Washington Post reports on the Caravan Project
• Mark this: The Caravan Project – “Just as consumers of music, film and television now can choose how to receive those media, the Caravan Project will offer buyers of serious non-fiction books a “menu” of formats, both print and digital, from which to choose how they read a book.”

By James Bridle. This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 at 1:33 am and is tagged with Stop Press. Here's a permanent link to this post, and the RSS feed for the comments. You can leave a comment below, or trackback from your own site.