- “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.”
Stop Press for March 20th
March 21, 2007
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[...] like the old Blog to Book trend is no Fad (though I echo James’ thoughts [...]
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[...] Purcell and Booktwo don’t hold much with blooks being a sustainable market – but it is still a very innovative [...]
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