book to the future a manifesto for book liberation

ISBN: 9781906496364 Géneros: KN Sinópsis: The Book Liberation Manifesto is an exploration of publishing outside of current corporate constraints and beyond the confines of book piracy We believe that knowledge should be in free circulation to benefit humankind which means an equitable and vibrant economy to support publishing instead of the prevailing capitalist handmedown system of Sisyphean economic sustainability Readers and books have been forced into pirate libraries while sales channels have been monopolised by the big Internet giants which exact extortionate fees from publishers We have three proposals First publications should be freeatthepointofreading under a variety of open intellectual property regimes Second they should become fully digital in order to facilitate ready reuse distribution algorithmic and computational use Finally Open Source source software for publishing should be treated as public infrastructure with sustained research and investment The result of such robust infrastructures will mean lower costs for manufacturing and faster publishing lifecycles so that publishers and publics will be more readily able to afford to invent new futures

• ISBN: 9781906496364
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