The marathon is almost over. Here’s my final posting. Phew. Thanks for staying with me, for all the comments and the links. Great to have stirred up such a debate!
Publishers have always spoken proudly of their role as custodians of copyright, preservers of culture, but how much have they really done to ensure the existence [...]
A book publisher’s manifesto – Part VI (The End)
on 20 May, 2008 – 9:54 am
Posted in General, Publishing, Sara's Manifesto, eBooks, read/write culture
A book publisher’s manifesto – Part V
on 19 May, 2008 – 10:24 am
Posted in General, Publishing, Sara's Manifesto, eBooks, read/write culture
The weekend brought us a break from my epic article posting marathon, as our network server connection broke down and I could not retrieve the original article… So after a short break, here’s Part V. We’re nearly there now.
The question really is no longer, “Will consumers read on screens in the future?” or “Will all [...]
A book publisher’s manifesto – Part II
on 14 May, 2008 – 9:59 am
Posted in General, Publishing, Sara's Manifesto, eBooks, read/write culture
Continuing my six part epic essay on the future of publishing. If there is one….
As digital reading devices go, Amazon’s Kindle is probably the first to at least recognise the importance of the ‘connectivity’ between our differing modes of reading, the fact that readers might like to follow up references within [...]
A book publisher’s manifesto for the 21st century
on 13 May, 2008 – 4:01 pm
Posted in General, Publishing, Sara's Manifesto, eBooks, read/write culture
Over the next few days I am going to blog a piece I have written for a US-based library journal, Library Trends, on how traditional publishers need to position themselves in the changing media flows of a networked era. It’s a very long article so I’m gonna serialise it and blog it in six ‘bite-sized’ [...]
