It has always been quite easy (if you have the money) to get a book printed.
Publishers are not printers. The business of getting a book printed is only
one (and not the most important) of a publishing company's functions. Editing
to improve the quality of the raw product from the author is one of the
important ones, and marketing to bring it to the attention of those who might
be interested in its content is the other. I believe that both of these
functions remain important in an electronic-only environment.
Fytton Rowland.
Quoting muir gray <muir.gray_at_NTLWORLD.COM>:
> I think the debate is too focussed on the fiuture of the journal and am
> pleased to see that it now addresses the monograph. a colleague abd i
> have
> just made a mongraph by working directly with a printer and making
> simulataneouspaper and electronic forms opf the book with no need for
> bookshops or warehouses. the printing revolution isas important as the
> pagemaking revolution
>
> muir gray
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Oldroyd, Bill" <Bill.Oldroyd_at_BL.UK>
> To: <AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG>
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 1:47 PM
> Subject: Re: Book on future of STM publishers
>
>
> > Just for the record, Bill
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Brody [mailto:tdb01r_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk]
> > Sent: 19 July 2002 13:02
> > To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
> > Subject: Re: Book on future of STM publishers
> >
> > >It would seem, therefore, that research dissertations may be a
> potentially
> > >valuable resource after all - one that for too long has been
> accessible
> > >only from library archives.
> >
> > Approximately 140,000 UK theses are available from the British Library
> as
> > non-digital copies or exceptionally as loans to registered
> institutions.
> >
> > See http://www.bl.uk/services/document/btsindex.html
> >
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
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