Showing posts with label publishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label publishing. Show all posts
Wednesday, 17 June 2020

The newspaper is dying, shouting about "responsible publishers" and "conscientious advertisers" doesn't change a thing

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It's an old joke that the point of journalism is to fill in the gaps between the adverts. And there has always been a tension, sometim...
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Sunday, 7 January 2018

Maybe writing stuff people want to read would be a start?

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Literary fiction - those celebrated but unread books that all the chattering folk recommend to each other - is struggling: Finally it’s off...
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Thursday, 31 August 2017

Philip Pullman wants to make more money - at book buyers expense

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Writing books is a competitive business. There are uncountable aspiring novelists scribbling away at their masterwork while scraping a livi...
Wednesday, 16 August 2017

The Booker Prize isn't as important as a lot of folk think

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Tim Worstall reports on a lefty professor's comments about the Booker Prize: The Booker now has a stranglehold on how people think ...
Tuesday, 14 March 2017

Fake news tells us why scholarly publishing profits matter

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It has been a bugbear of the increasingly left-wing word of academia that their work is published in paid-for scholarly journals resulting i...
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Sunday, 21 February 2016

Tim Worstall (and nearly everyone else) is wrong about open access publishing

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**** I get it that Tim Worstall as an independent researcher is on the sore end of the historically dominant publishing business model. To...
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Saturday, 10 January 2015

The Spectator. A great magazine that's cannibalising it's income for the sake of online hits.

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**** For a good number of years I've subscribed to The Spectator. It was and still is the best by far of the UK's political and cu...
Saturday, 19 April 2014

So what is the point of peer review then? Bias and the European Journal of Public Health

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**** Richard Grant reports that the European Journal of Public Health (EJPH) has become the latest academic publication refusing to publi...
Thursday, 5 December 2013

Transition Network - smug folk who want higher prices

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**** There's a particular sort - I call them 'local protectionists' - who think the salvation for poor communities, indeed for...
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Saturday, 27 April 2013

Possible predatory open-access publishing and public health...

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**** A couple of days ago I wrote about a piece of research published in a journal called "Food & Public Health" and written...
Thursday, 21 March 2013

Leveson mission creep - a warning to voluntary organisations

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**** Folk like me (I think but am not quite sure) are not caught in the mission creep that is the proposed Royal Charter to control the pr...
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Monday, 14 January 2013

Open Access: It's not free you know - not even a little bit...

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The Internet I mean. Yet that's what people persist in believing - and worse that somehow forcing it all to be 'free' (it isn...
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Wednesday, 25 July 2012

I guess most members of the Society of Authors never studied statistics...

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**** A little storm on a bookshelf stirred up by the Society of Authors (an august body that I'd never heard of - can't see why a...
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Monday, 2 July 2012

...a thought about 'open access' publishing (from someone cleverer than me)

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**** So the great and good want academic research published 'open access' at enormous cost - probably to the taxpayers (nearly al...
Thursday, 26 April 2012

Academic publishing and the 'tragedy of the commons'

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**** I'm sure Mr Worstall did so inadvertently but his castigation of the Royal Society's 'save the planet' report also ex...
Tuesday, 7 February 2012

On the Elsevier boycott...

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**** ...and why it isn't working. This is from Exane BNP Paribus on the LibLicence ListServ: * Noise around boycott against Elsev...
Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Scary Quote of the Day...

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**** Judith Schilling is the "publications manager" for the European Commission's London Office and says: “We will never s...
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010

We need copyright to prevent censorship and promote freedom

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Much of the debate surrounding the current Digital Economy Bill focuses on the dissemination of popular culture and the mechanisms to mak...
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Saturday, 14 November 2009

Two family stories - and why barring people without a degree from nursing is wrong

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* Family Story #1 My Uncle was a judge. OK, I hear you - "Tory has judge for uncle, surprise, surprise". But my uncle - Ray Palmer...