New Realities for Academic Presses in Trying Economic Times
Tue, 03/24/2009 - 08:39 — David Blakesley
I presented a paper at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in San Francisco on March 11, 2009, on the future of scholarly publishing in rhetoric and composition. In case you're interested, you can read it here:
- David Blakesley's blog
Comments
Wed, 04/29/2009 - 22:35 — Katerenee10
Dr Blakesley, This is a funny
Dr Blakesley,
This is a funny coincidence, but just today I was speaking with Allen Brizee (my OWL internship instructor) about the future of scholary publications during the "economic downturn". I am really interested in the future of printing and it's neat that Parlor Press saw down the road, if you will, towards times when the physical act of printing would begin to lose some of its lustre. I'd imagine that as we also move towards greener printing, publishing books and journals online will become a more popular idea.
Cool presentation!
Sun, 05/10/2009 - 09:53 — David Blakesley
Lustre of Print
Thanks, Kate! I like to call this the "lingering hegemony of print" that we're fighting against. That said, the reality is that a) people are reassured by seeing things in print and assign more value to print; b) print is better in many ways (for archival purposes, portability); and c) we haven't learned enough about digital publishing to take advantage of the many tools out there.
Green publishing is a whole new area to think about, so it should be exciting to see what we can do there also.
Dr. B.