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Terry Pratchett: Sex, Death and Nature →
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Focus on what you do best and outsource the rest →
Wise words for publishers… Don’t try and do everything yourself.
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Are scholarly e-presses are the way forward for academic publishing? →
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Survey of US University Presses →
Scott McLemee has an interesting article in Inside Higher Ed, reporting on feedback from US university presses to his questions about ebooks, print vs digital catalogues, e-review copies, and blogging.
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"the nightmare narrative being spun by the publishing echo chamber is tragically unaware of how Amazon works" →
Lots of food for thought in this blog post from Eric Hellman.
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– After David Ogilvy’s now-infamous 10 tips on writing and Henry Miller’s 11 commandments of writing, here comes a list of rules for writers from George Orwell circa 1946. (via explore-blog)1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
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The Endangered scholarly book review? →
This article in The Chronicle gives a good overview of the place and importance of book reviews within the humanities research community.
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Bell Labs and innovation →
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John Ingram on the future of publishing →
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Are books and the internet about to merge? →
