6 Projects That Could Change Publishing for the Better

Not since I had dreams of being a book designer & went on some sad post-English degree interviews for which I was thoroughly unprepared had I thought much about the non-academic publishing world, but Tamblyn’s video (via &BoingBoing) was interesting to me for several reasons. He thinks transforming the publishing/bookselling industry demands a new type of buy in, needs to encourage cheap experimentation, embodies a risk-taking and work-in-progress approach, and needs to include people who aren’t currently at the table making the big decisions. Similar to many of the issues we’re looking at in scholarly communication.  Most importantly, his subtext seems to be that we need to ensure that our projects do not fail badly– that all of our eggs are not in the same basket.

6 Projects That Could Change Publishing for the Better

Good use of powerpoint– I love it when slides are both descriptive and funny– here they seem to be a cruch to the note-takers rather than the presenter. Another one to look at is Scott McCloud’s TED talk.