Imagine a new way of publishing
Imagine an open source, integrated, taggable, reviewable, etc form of publishing text-based material - not only academic but all written material. Something like last.fm or eMusic (in that you could download or even have print-on-demand for a small fee) for writing. It wouldn’t be Amazon because it would by-pass commercial publishers. It would be a bit like Amazon in that people could add reviews, rate and so on as well as tag. It might be like Wikipedia expanding like the famous Borges map that replicates the whole world (of publishing at least). It might link to other interesting sites such as Neural.it or the Fibreculture Journal and become a way of aggregating them. With ebook readers coming into being it could change publishing of all kinds, including academic, dramatically.
Has anyone seen this happening anywhere? I know Library Thing provides something of a beginning. I know the problem (to start with) is venture capital, or more basically, servers.
July 17, 2007 at 7:23 pm
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