Generally, I try to keep this blog focused on information policy, but I can’t help myself. I’ve had climate on the brain thanks to Copenhagen, but the confluence of news items that crossed my desk today is striking.
Much of the American media coverage of climate change is of the political back-and-forth about the costs of [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2009’
Cutting carbon doesn’t have to be hard
OA + POD + competition?
Here’s a question I thought of recently. I’ve asked a few smart people and none of them were sure of the answer, either, so:
There’s a bit of buzz about OA + POD (open access + print-on-demand) as a model for books, particularly for small scholarly publishers like university presses. Consider the following: a book published [...]
Google Books Settlement: Now featuring me
I’ve blogged twice about the Google Books Settlement (here and here), in addition to following it at considerable length on Open Access News. Now, I’m part of it!
A footnote in Pamela Samuelson’s objection tipped me off:
Most other signatories [to the brief] … are members of the Author Subclass by virtue of the book-bound copies of [...]
