Procurement Before Prestige: How audit rules and public #infrastructure could break #science’s #publishing monopolies.
https://bjoern.brembs.net/2026/01/procurement-before-prestige/
An English version of my post in German for the Verfassungsblog:
https://verfassungsblog.de/rechnungshof-statt-redaktionsschluss/
Also: if you can't find publishers for your radical stories (or want to get it out faster with more control), please consider self-publishing. I was in the first wave of selfpub authors 15 YEARS ago—anyone who sneers at selfpub is very behind the times.
Your stories don't do any good in a drawer.
Procurement Before Prestige: How audit rules and public #infrastructure could break #science’s #publishing monopolies.
https://bjoern.brembs.net/2026/01/procurement-before-prestige/
An English version of my post in German for the Verfassungsblog:
https://verfassungsblog.de/rechnungshof-statt-redaktionsschluss/
PLEASE, I am begging you, write your queer stories, your Weird stories, your #hopepunk & #solarpunk stories, your stories of a better world & our broken one, of healing & liberation.
PLEASE
(Brought to you by the trauma of me reading a story of horrifying conservative status quo justification)
Also: if you can't find publishers for your radical stories (or want to get it out faster with more control), please consider self-publishing. I was in the first wave of selfpub authors 15 YEARS ago—anyone who sneers at selfpub is very behind the times.
Your stories don't do any good in a drawer.
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My book, Drystone - A Life Rebuilt, has been out for only five months. A mere babe in the book world. I’ve just seen that Amazon are currently selling the Kindle edition for £1.99. That means I earn less than 20p if someone buys it.
Twenty-fucking-pence.
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Book #Books #Scotland #Publishing
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My book, Drystone - A Life Rebuilt, has been out for only five months. A mere babe in the book world. I’ve just seen that Amazon are currently selling the Kindle edition for £1.99. That means I earn less than 20p if someone buys it.
Twenty-fucking-pence.
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Book #Books #Scotland #Publishing
Happy to be quoted in this overview looking at the complex problem of who pays for scientific #publishing.
Appearing with @juancommander , @csmarcum , and @Samuelmoore
NPM to implement staged publishing after turbulent shift off classic tokens
https://socket.dev/blog/npm-to-implement-staged-publishing
#HackerNews #NPM #Staged #Publishing #NPM #Tokens #Software #Development #Open #Source #Technology #News
Happy to be quoted in this overview looking at the complex problem of who pays for scientific #publishing.
Appearing with @juancommander , @csmarcum , and @Samuelmoore
Platforms prey on publishing: data tracking with 40% profit margins. After decades of inaction by the scholarly community, the EU comes to the rescue - if we let them:
https://bjoern.brembs.net/2026/01/procurement-before-prestige
#publishing #research #science #academicchatter #infrastructure
"Academia has become increasingly guided by metrics. As a result, research quality is judged more by where it is published than by its intrinsic worth." #academia #openaccess #publishing #research https://theconversation.com/the-5-stages-of-the-enshittification-of-academic-publishing-269714
"Academia has become increasingly guided by metrics. As a result, research quality is judged more by where it is published than by its intrinsic worth." #academia #openaccess #publishing #research https://theconversation.com/the-5-stages-of-the-enshittification-of-academic-publishing-269714
Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year! I capped off 2025 as a paid writer by sellig a one-paragraph short to a publication for one dollar. Follow your dreams. Any resolutions? Not me. I wouldn't keep them. #newyear #newyear2026 #resolution #resolutions #notme #fun #bookstodon #mastodon #writingCommunity #socialnetwork #social #socialweb #writersCoffeeClub #writer #followyourdreams #publishing #scribesAndMakers #work #words #writing #writers #writersLife #humor #funny #holiday #dollar #world
