The Real Impact of the Department of Justice Case on Authors and Advances => Short clip from the Leanpub Frontmatter podcast with Special Guest: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez => The link to the full interview is here => https://youtu.be/LLofGkTVNT8 => Original Release Date: 2022-11-08 #books#publishing#DOJ
Where do 'zines belong, culturally & institutionally? How do "we" document & archive these sub-cultural artifacts?
'zines were a significant part of my adolescence & young adulthood from ~'84 through ~'96. Mostly for the music & art scenes. I may have "published" a couple 'lil tracts. Definitely contributed a bit o'terrible poetry, pics, and illustrations to a few of them(fortunately now lost & thankfully forgotten!).
@friendlyghost Couldn't agree more, except for the stolen Office bit.
Want to build print-on-demand publication-ready books without spending a dime? Here's how:
Writing: LibreOffice Writer
Artwork: Krita
Cartography: Inkarnate
Layout: LibreOffice Writer
Also, you can't build confidence without making things. Get started. Everyone's first works are terrible; don't judge your quality, judge your progress.
Novel writing, nowadays, is about writing to formula. The formula of expectation, genre, publishing, or money. Most writers have forgotten that writing is about story and entertainment. Expectation is the straight-jacket of fiction.
Come to the Anarchist #DIY#publishing meet-up 10th of April where we gather around our book-info store!
We want to:
⭐ Generate a space where we can find reflection materials and editions (#books, #fanzine, #magazines, #pamphlets) that are an extension of the ideas and struggles in which we believe and participate.
⭐ Organize #workshops that actively encourage the do-it-yourself #layout, #printing and #binding.
Another scientific paper using #AI caught. I am sure in time they'll be catching papers in #LIS as well. #Librarians needing tenure are another group that churn out articles for journals. And they have the audacity to still call it #writing.
📚Free speech, hate speech, and cancel culture in #publishing - SATURDAY OPINION
"If a publisher has invested money and resources to support an author ... then they have some skin in the game... Often, though, the responsibility falls on the author."
"…there is no way reviewers and journals are going to be able to keep up. Reviewers are typically unpaid academics who are already stretched to their limits; tripling their workload would not be feasible. […] the total number of articles may radically spike, many of them dubious and a waste of reviewers’ time. Lots of bad stuff is going to sneak in."
"The modestly funded West Haven Library has spent more than $12,000 over the last three years to lease just 276 additional digital titles beyond what patrons can access through a consortium of public libraries. Eighty-four of those books are no longer available. If that same amount had been spent on paper books, it would have covered about 800 titles."