Academics share machine-learning research freely. Taxpayers should not have to pay twice to read our findingsBudding authors face a minefield when it comes to publishing their work. For a large fee, as much as $3,000, they can make their work available to anyone who wants to read it. Or they can avoid the fee and have readers pay the publisher instead. Often it is libraries that foot this bill through expensive annual subscriptions. This is not the lot of wannabe fiction writers, it’s the business of academic publishing.More than 200 years ago, Giuseppe Piazzi, an isolated astronomer in Palermo, Sicily, discovered a dwarf planet. For him, publishing meant writing a letter to his friend Franz von Zach. Each month von Zach collated letters from astronomers across Europe and redistributed them. No internet for these guys: they found out about the latest discoveries from leatherbound volumes of letters called Monatliche Correspondenz. The time it took to disseminate research threw up its own problems: by the time Piazzi’s data were published, the planet had vanished in the sun’s glare.The ability to pay no longer determines the ability to play Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2018-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Forty-two percent of 103 publishing executives polled by Digiday this February said Facebook was an effective platform to grow international audiences. The post Digiday Research: European publishers still look to Facebook and Instagram to grow abroad appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2019-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Springer Nature's leadership says it's 'encouraging a significant shift in publishers’ view[s] of their role in the transition to open access.' The post Springer Nature Solicits Input on Open Access Transition appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Around a year ago, Google unveiled Duplex, an AI-powered feature that can call businesses and book appointments for you. Ahead of this year's I/O, Google revealed the other half of the equation, a virtual customer service agent that can automatically... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The use of smart speakers is on the rise, as is car listening, in reported audiobook consumption in the Audio Publishers Association's 2019 annual survey. The post A First: APA Research Sees 50 Percent of Americans Listening to an Audiobook appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fourth Estate will publish two more Slay in Your Lane titles following the success of the first book by Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rigoberto González’s recent book of poetry, "The Book of Ruin," has a dark core. “It’s an apocalyptic narrative,” González tells The Times in a video interview. “I’m imagining the end of the world: climate change, all of the different damage that we’ve done to this world. I’m exploring the ways... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The "boomerang" nature of time was discussed at the Vintage for Change evening, along with teen revolution and the sensibilities of sexbots, as Jeanette Winterson and six other authors considered the “turbulent times” of present day. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Springer Nature has published its first machine-generated title, a chemistry book offering an overview of the latest research in the rapidly growing field of lithium-ion batteries. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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OUP has bought three picture books about the natural world by author/illustrator Yuval Zommer. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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To democratise scholarly publishing, individual academics need to take actionAcademic and scientific research needs to be accessible to all. The world’s most pressing problems like clean water or food security deserve to have as many people as possible solving their complexities. Yet our current... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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National Book Award winner Barry Lopez mines his travel diaries of exotic trips to celebrate the continents he's visited and also to muse on the state of the environment. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Wall Street Journal plans to join a new subscription news service run by Apple, even as some other major publishers balked at the terms, two people familiar with the plans said. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2019-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a new research project, new books by men were found to receive 12% more broadsheet review coverage than those of their female counterparts. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rana DiOrio's latest venture, Creative Mint, seeks to leverage the power of blockchain technology to “democratize and decentralize” rights transactions. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Seventy-eight percent of 103 European publishers surveyed by Digiday said their programmatic inventory prices remain unchanged since GDPR. The post Digiday Research: GDPR has not reduced programmatic ad revenues for European publishers appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2019-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The cover story is "Help! I'm in Love With Momo." Hardin, incidentally, wrote about the so-called Momo Challenge on March 1:It remains unclear how many Momo videos actually exist, whether they have actually caused kids to harm themselves, and just how widespread a phenomenon it is. It's also... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Taking a talk to Texas, the Frankfurter Buchmesse's Holger Volland will be in conversation with Martina Mara of the Austrian Council on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence during SXSW on March 10. The post Frankfurter Buchmesse Stages a Conversation on AI During SXSW appeared first on... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kogan Page has published the first book on Artificial Intelligence written with the help of AI, in its latest Inspire series titled Superhuman Innovation. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sixty-eight percent of 97 publishers that produce news or time-sensitive stories said they plan to create more evergreen content according to a survey by Digiday this February. The post Digiday Research: Chasing revenue, news publishers are producing more evergreen content appeared first on... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2019-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A newly added podcast series at London Book Fair will be on the Fireside Chat Stage. And smartphones used to access those podcasts are proliferating unevenly in the world, says Pew Research. The post Industry Notes: Podcasts at London Book Fair; Pew Research on Smartphones appeared first on... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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