The Bible in Church and Academy
Posted in Academia, Publishing on Sep 15th, 2009
I heard about this study on the future of humanities journals in the new episode of the Digital Humanities podcast.
I am still working my way through the 55 page report, but the study concludes that the current journal ecosystem cannot be maintained through a move to exclusive online or open access distribution. As Robert [...]
Posted in Books, Publishing on Sep 3rd, 2009
Dan Visel at the if:book blog linked to a great article at Pitchfork on the social history of the MP3. Dan draws this analogy to the printed material industry:
I don’t know that there’s a direct analogue to the way the publishing industry is attempting to transform itself in the face of the digital, but Harvey [...]
Posted in Academia, Blogging, Open Access Scholarship, Publishing on Jun 1st, 2009
I have spent some time here thinking about “scholarly communication,” and particularly about the philosophical and ethical aspects of profit-based academic publishing. The recent biblioblog conversation about blogging however, immediately jumped to my mind when I saw this article on how electronic media changes the nature of writing itself, or at least the writing market [...]
Posted in Bible, Publishing, Software, Technology on Apr 8th, 2009
Via Bible Studies and Technological Tools and BiblePlaces this morning, I learned about John Dyer’s amazing new project to create an online interface for the Greek and Hebrew Bibles. His blog post about it is here, with some instructions, and the Reader’s Bible is here.
The site works well for me in Firefox. He [...]
Posted in Publishing on Apr 7th, 2009
Let’s face it: most books and websites are poorly designed and difficult to read. On the other hand, while a few websites have been crafted with readers in mind, nothing on the screen can yet match the beauty and readability of a professionally typeset and expensively printed paper document.
Those of us interested in electronic [...]
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