Book Exhibitions in a Time of PandemicGlobal events requiring international travel and the congregation of thousands of visitors in exhibition halls are one of the heaviest…May 12, 2020May 12, 2020
Plan S and digital librariesSTM (Scientific, Technical and Medical) publishing has been an extraordinarily profitable area for the big academic publishers in the last…Mar 4, 20191Mar 4, 20191
Magazines in timeWhen magazines become digital their relationship to time is profoundly altered. Paradoxically their relationship with time and our…Oct 23, 2018Oct 23, 2018
Semantic Capital and Magazine ArchivesLuciano Floridi, an Italian Professor at Oxford, is one of the leading philosophers of information. He is also interested in libraries and…Oct 4, 2018Oct 4, 2018
Billionaires and magazinesMarc Benioff’s purchase of the magazine Time for $190 million seems to be part of a trend: billionaires buying prestigious magazines and…Sep 21, 2018Sep 21, 2018
Are magazines still periodicals?This question occurred to me when I saw a suggestion that the mooted, not yet launched, Apple magazine aggregating service will include…Sep 17, 2018Sep 17, 2018
ebooks and digital magazinesI follow a publishing mailing list that has this week been having a big gripe about ebooks. The main sub-gripes seem to be:Sep 10, 20181Sep 10, 20181
Digital Memory is Shaping our FutureI have borrowed the title for this blog from the sub-title of a great book When We Are No More by Abby Smith Rumsey. And the subtitle is…Feb 2, 2018Feb 2, 2018
