[bruinbirdman]

"University of California librarians are urging professors not to submit research to Nature or 66 related journals to protest a 400 percent increase in the publisher's prices."

Read an article about an author who convinced publishers to print up 4 or 5 of his titles over many years. I looked them up on Amazon. They are selling for about $9.99 now.

So he published his rejected titles (8 or 9) himself on Kindle for $2 a download and says he is making more than he ever did in his life.

yitbos

[HiTech RedNeck]

Micropublishing, the new trend.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

So he published his rejected titles (8 or 9) himself on Kindle for $2 a download and says he is making more than he ever did in his life.

In a roughly equivalent situation, the band Radiohead released their 7th album "In Rainbows" as MP3 downloads for any price customers were willing to pay. They reportedly made more money from these MP3 sales than they'd made from all of their previous album sales combined (and Radiohead is a very successful band).

There are business models with a legacy of huge profits built around the increasingly obsolete function of middle-man between creators of content and consumers of content. As content producers are increasingly able to self-publish and self-publicize, record companies, publishing companies and production companies could all go the way of the dinosaur. But not without all sorts of demands for government subsidies and bad legislation first.

[glorgau]

Very cool visualization of Journal Citation Patterns which uses the hierarchical edge bundling technique.