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	<title>Publishing Frontier</title>
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	<description>A raucous public discussion of the publishing revolution.</description>
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		<title>On the technology and learning trail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Paul Baran conjured out of the haze of sunny Santa Monica summer afternoons the concept of “distributed communications”—later called packet switching—did he imagine that his theory, born out of the Cold War as a means to help survive a nuclear attack, would bring new connectivity both high and low, that the desire to hurtle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pubfrontier.com/2010/02/20/on-the-technology-and-learning-trail/</link>
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		<title>An Inconvenient Truth about Scholarly Publishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 20 of 2009, I gave what I consider my most significant speech to  date, at the Association of American University Presses&#8217; annual meeting, entitled &#8220;Scholarly Publishing in the New Era of Scarcity.&#8221;   It was the  last presentation in the last Plenary session of the meeting, and allowed  me to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pubfrontier.com/2009/07/08/an-inconvenient-truth-about-scholarly-publishing/</link>
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		<title>At the apex</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been reading a couple of things lately that could restore, if you were in need of such a thing, your faith in print, and in the vitality of scholarship and publishing in the digital age. The publishing industry is in crisis—well, nearly everything these days seems to be in crisis—but you would hardly realize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pubfrontier.com/2009/04/12/at-the-apex/</link>
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		<title>What Were Once Devices Are Now Habits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I was riding home on my Xootr push scooter—yes, it’s a tough commute—when an old Ford Falcon pulled up next to me at the light. I noticed the undercarriage splotched with rust, the tires baring their sole, but what struck me most was the backseat, brimming with books, magazines, and yellowed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pubfrontier.com/2009/03/22/what-were-once-devices-are-now-habits/</link>
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		<title>Threadless and Collaborative Publishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the surface, one wouldn’t immediately think of the t-shirt as a great model for web collaboration and community, often referred to, either fondly or derisively, as Web 2.0. But Threadless has managed to carve out an interesting niche, uniting designers, fans of great design, and t-shirt aficionados (many members are undoubtedly all three). For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pubfrontier.com/2009/02/23/threadless-and-collaborative-publishing/</link>
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		<title>Purchase on Demand:  The New POD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Purchase on demand is the new POD and is likely to restructure the publishing supply chain.]]></description>
		<link>http://pubfrontier.com/2009/02/13/purchase-on-demand-the-new-pod/</link>
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		<title>An optimistic observation for publishers around ebooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, here&#8217;s an optimistic observation for publishers.
Let&#8217;s say more and more real book readers find, &#8220;you know, reading on this iPhone, Android, smartphone I have is pretty good&#8230;&#8221; And the marketplace for reading on the phones grows quickly. Plenty of skeptics for that idea, sure. But not impossible. (Keep this in mind: three doublings make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pubfrontier.com/2009/02/08/an-optimistic-observation-for-publishers-around-ebooks/</link>
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		<title>Decline and Fall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Empires, by definition, begin their decline at their peak.  Today Amazon bestrides the publishing world like Caesar, and it may seem far-fetched to think of this company slipping from its dominant position.  There is some doubt, however, that Amazon can continue to augment its control over so many facets of the industry.  Although there may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pubfrontier.com/2009/02/03/decline-and-fall/</link>
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		<title>The competition for The NY Times Sunday Book Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a publishing listserv discussion, triggered by the planned shutdown of Washington Post&#8217;s BookWorld, I contributed to a discussion about how the franchise in The New York Times Sunday Book Review (TBR) could be preserved. One suggestion was that the section be spun out of the paper as a separate business which, it was hoped, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pubfrontier.com/2009/01/30/the-competition-for-the-ny-times-sunday-book-review/</link>
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		<title>Random House and Its Very Own Print-on-demand Web Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Random House has announced that it will be creating a Web site to market selected titles as print on demand. This has come under criticism in a number of quarters, not because POD is not fully appreciated but because of the truism that no trade publisher has a brand that means anything to a consumer. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pubfrontier.com/2008/11/29/random-house-and-its-very-own-print-on-deman-web-site/</link>
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