I'm wondering if anyone has created an academic authors union to put
pressure on the publishers? If authors were to publish under a union,
and allow the union to set publisher restrictions, it would give them
a great deal of negotiation ability. Self publishing would be one
option, but securing
We've just finished a website to sell an eBook (Kindle or EPUB) for an
author in town, Josh Gonze, see the streetsofsantafe.com
http://streetsofsantafe.com. Visitors buy the ebook ($11.95) via
PayPal and automatically receive an email with a digital download link
that's good for 2 days. This
Any watermark or copy protection on this format?
Thanks,
Tory
On Feb 15, 2012, at 8:16 AM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote:
We've just finished a website to sell an eBook (Kindle or EPUB) for
an author in town, Josh Gonze, see the streetsofsantafe.com.
Visitors buy the ebook ($11.95) via
I have interests in a niche family publishing business in history /
social sciences in India..
But we mainly publish European authors (the Romance langages) in
excellent quality in small runs (ie. low thousands) which nobody else
handles..
Authors:
http://www.transbooks.com/auth.html
We publish
+1!
While in Silicon Valley, I asked about a Union for tech folks because we
have a high turnover rate .. we find interesting jobs or start startups. My
argument wasn't pay scale, striking, or that sort of thing .. but just a
professional organization that would help centralize benefits and so
Interesting, Sarbajit. Thanks. N
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing
I have
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Victoria Hughes
victo...@toryhughes.com wrote:
Any watermark or copy protection on this format?
Tory,
Don't sweat it. DRM never works anyway.
If anyone has (legal) access to the content, and there is a demand for
it, it will end up stripped of whatever DRM or
I had also surveyed about organizing when I was in Silicon Valley,
most of the techies didn't really understand how much influence they
could have if they organized. I also think academia may be more
receptive to a publishing union to keep their work open as intended.
The most important process in
Thanks all, this is quite helpful. I particularly like envisaging my
readers secretly copying my book so others can read it and ultimately
generate financial success à la Rowling. Nice visuals. I'll share,
when it happens.
Tory
On Feb 15, 2012, at 12:17 PM, James Steiner wrote:
On Wed,
re my last note-
Financial success for me.
Success for my readers in whatever category they choose.
( For those of you who want to query my vague pronoun references...)
On Feb 15, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Victoria Hughes wrote:
Thanks all, this is quite helpful. I particularly like envisaging my
I self-published Theory of Nothing after the first 10 publishers
turned it down for economic reasons through BookSurge, which was
later bought by Amazon.
It has sold somewhere in the region 550 copies to date.
I made my costs back within a year - but the ebook version hardly sold
at all, even
Here is the core dump of the recently defunct Code Quarterly magazine (FRIAM
connection: this was started by Peter Seibel, who is Fred Seibel's son). Of
course, the target audience and contributers are geeks rather than scientists,
so I'm not sure if there is much to learn for science
Russell3,
Other than your time, what are the journal costs? I mean roughly. What are
the categories of cost?
I am having a hard time imagining any.
Nick
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Sent:
Daer Gerg,
An excellent idea!
Where is the guy who started Brain and Behavioral Sciences? If memory
serves, he was in full war with the aptly named Syndics of Cambridge
University on just this issue. I wonder where he ended and if he might be
an ally.In fact, I am surprised he hasn't
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