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Assisted suicide
Jul. 20th, 2015 05:56 amYou don't have to be as old as I am to remember when the bookstore chains were the Great Satan. Then Amazon came along to give us a new appreciation of them. Here is Sarah A. Hoyt, explaining that Borders killed itself and Amazon merely helped.
Content note: This being a Sarah A. Hoyt post, it contains a bit of Commie Menace Boogie Boogie. I believe she is a PTSD anticommunist, so traumatized by what Marxism did to her beloved Portugal that she sees it everywhere and thinks it's even worse than it is.
Thanx to File 770
Content note: This being a Sarah A. Hoyt post, it contains a bit of Commie Menace Boogie Boogie. I believe she is a PTSD anticommunist, so traumatized by what Marxism did to her beloved Portugal that she sees it everywhere and thinks it's even worse than it is.
Thanx to File 770
Because marriage has always been a sacred bond between one man and at least one woman, a publisher has canceled a book rather than include an author bio revealing that one of the authors lives with a same-sex partner.
Thanx to Making Light.
Thanx to Making Light.
A good fight
May. 28th, 2013 02:11 pmJeffrey Beall was a library school classmate of mine (UNC '90). He has gone on to investigate the world of open-source scholarly journal publishing, and he has found some nasty things crawling out from under the rocks. Our alma mater is supporting him:
SILS and the SILS Alumni Association commend Jeffrey Beall, our alumnus and colleague, in his courageous and vigorous efforts to advance fair and equitable scholarly publishing. Scholars, publishers, and librarians must work together to ensure that new knowledge is made available to humanity speedily and equitably. Mr. Beall, through his blog Scholarly Open Access: Critical Analysis of Scholarly Open-Access Publishing, advocates for open access publishing models that fairly reward producers and distributors for their efforts to broadly share new knowledge. His list of publishers that use questionable pricing, review, and processing models is open to discussion by all interested parties, and these discussions serve the common good. We encourage librarians, scholars, and their professional associations to defend and support Mr. Beall and all librarians, scholars, and publishers who work for fairness in scholarly publication.
That'll never sell
Feb. 15th, 2013 06:32 amFive best sellers that were repeatedly rejected. T.S. Eliot, of all people, turned down Animal Farm because it was unkind to our Soviet allies, but the people who thought that a title like Chicken Soup for the Soul wouldn't go over must have been unfamiliar with Mencken's Observation.*
*No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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*No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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Nov. 24th, 2009 06:45 amScalzi explains how to do self-publishing, rather than vanity publishing.
