Owen, haven't sold enough via Kindle to tell. I was stunned--somebody informed me on FB--that Machines Who Think sells for thirty bucks on Kindle! That seems to me a good way of making sure none gets sold.
> > Pamela: some of your books come in Kindle versions. Do you have any insights > about whether or not digital books work out well for the authors? Has it > hurt, for example, via piracy? > > -- Owen > > Slightly off-topic: in the science and math journals, there is a serious > effort to move away from the huge publishers, especially Elsevier and its > very large number of journals they've quietly acquired over the last decade > or two. This is succeeding, even to the point of peer reviews being managed > by the coop, not the publisher. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Owen Densmore <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:02 AM > Subject: Elsevier — my part in its downfall « Gowers's Weblog > To: Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > > > Timothy Gowers the Fields medalist mathematician has a recent post on > Elsevier and a growing movement to boycott their use > http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-its-downfall/ > > This includes not submitting to the VERY MANY math journals owned by > Elsevier: > http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/P11.cws_home/mathjournals > .. or reviewing submissions > > One previous successful act against Elsevier was extraction of the Journal of > Topology > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology_(journal) > On 10 August 2006, after months of unsuccessful negotiations with Elsevier > about the price policy of library subscriptions, the entire editorial board > of the journal handed in their resignation, with effect from 31 December > 2006. Subsequently, two more issues appeared in 2007 with papers that had > been accepted before the resignation of the editors. In early January the > former editors instructed Elsevier to remove their names from the website of > the journal, but Elsevier refused to comply, justifying their decision by > saying that the editorial board should remain on the journal until all of the > papers accepted during its tenure had been published. > In 2007 the former editors announced the launch of the Journal of Topology, > run under the auspices of the London Mathematical Society at a significantly > lower price. > > Its interesting that Timothy also refers to SOPA/PIPA and took part in the > wikipedia led protest. (I just found out that wordpress made a plugin that > folks all could use for that and future protests. Impressive!) > > I'd really like more of us to be careful about our papers and demand they be > open. Its not exactly black/white, but certainly the papers have to be > publicly available, whatever else the publisher's rights may be. > > I'd like your opinions, which are quite likely more informed than mine. > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org "She instructed me as if out of bitter personal experience; she brooded along the edges of my childhood like someone living out a long Tennysonian regret." Wallace Stegner, "Angle of Repose"
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