adamhodgkin·May 12, 2020Book 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…
adamhodgkin·Mar 4, 2019Plan S and digital librariesSTM (Scientific, Technical and Medical) publishing has been an extraordinarily profitable area for the big academic publishers in the last…A response icon1A response icon1
adamhodgkin·Oct 23, 2018Magazines in timeWhen magazines become digital their relationship to time is profoundly altered. Paradoxically their relationship with time and our…
adamhodgkin·Oct 4, 2018Semantic 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…
adamhodgkin·Sep 21, 2018Billionaires and magazinesMarc Benioff’s purchase of the magazine Time for $190 million seems to be part of a trend: billionaires buying prestigious magazines and…
adamhodgkin·Sep 17, 2018Are 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…
adamhodgkin·Sep 10, 2018ebooks 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:A response icon1A response icon1
adamhodgkin·Feb 2, 2018Digital 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…