Cool personal announcement: I’m now working with Hachette Book Group, 3rd largest publisher in the world! 📚😍

I’m helping with their email #marketing on their executive marketing strategy team for the next 1.5 months. Got many book lists to curate!

This is a dream come true in many ways, reading is my longest-standing and most consistent hobby. I don’t know who I would be if I wasn’t constantly surrounded by books - definitely not the Mariya before you today.

As a reader, as a writer - getting to see publishing from the inside and help promote products that I fundamentally believe do good in the world is a relief and a blessing. I’m so honored and lucky.

(Don’t worry, my agency is not going anywhere and we are still very much working with other clients!)

#books #publishing #emailmarketing

🚨 Join the @openbookcollect next week at #chsconf2025 for the Vendor Showcase on Tuesday 4 November!

You'll find them at booth no 29 - they'd love to chat about #OpenAccess books and equitable #Publishing 📚

List of exhibitors 👉 https://buff.ly/Ybquein

Find out more about the OBC - watch this short video filmed last year at the 2024 Conference 📽️

Members & supporters explain why we need a fairer and more sustainable future for scholarly books 📚

👉 https://buff.ly/M0LeOFk

🚨 Join the @openbookcollect next week at #chsconf2025 for the Vendor Showcase on Tuesday 4 November!

You'll find them at booth no 29 - they'd love to chat about #OpenAccess books and equitable #Publishing 📚

List of exhibitors 👉 https://buff.ly/Ybquein

Find out more about the OBC - watch this short video filmed last year at the 2024 Conference 📽️

Members & supporters explain why we need a fairer and more sustainable future for scholarly books 📚

👉 https://buff.ly/M0LeOFk

New blogpost on eLife's new Replication study type https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/problems-with-elifes-new-article-type.html
tldr = I think it's doomed.
#publishing #reproducibility #publication bias

New blogpost on eLife's new Replication study type https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/problems-with-elifes-new-article-type.html
tldr = I think it's doomed.
#publishing #reproducibility #publication bias

The Interlisp documentation has a distinctive style that conforms to "Xerox Publishing Standards: A Manual of Style and Design" published in 1988 in this edition. It was the Xerox house style, i.e. the style guide for company publications and documents. The manual covered everything from the publishing process to visual design.

https://www.janvwhite.org/xerox-publishing-standards

#xerox #interlisp #publishing #retrocomputing

Scott Knaster wrote a post about SpiderWorks (my book publishing startup from back in the day).

Though we did eBooks before Amazon, they kicked our butts. Still very proud of the work we did.

https://scottknaster.substack.com/p/fun-with-book-credits
#Apple #History #Publishing

there is more knowledge on this page than I have pondered in ages...

#Publishing #LibreGraphics #OpenSourcePublishing

https://cc.vvvvvvaria.org/wiki/Tools_shape_practice_shapes_tools...

"free software culture is still overwhelmingly defined by White, cisgender male perspectives from North America, making it non-trivial to ask for help or to feel confident to contribute for anyone outside that norm"

Hmm, sounds almost verbatim like the conclusions from the EU Council:

"Cambridge University Press has released a report – Publishing futures: Working together to deliver radical change in academic publishing – calling for urgent, collective action to ensure academic publishing becomes more open, equitable and sustainable."

https://www.researchinformation.info/news/cambridge-demands-radical-change-in-academic-publishing/

#publishing #openaccess #openscience

On me suggère (dans l'oreillette) d'ajouter que ce livre a été créé avec une chaîne 100% numérique : rédigé en #Markdown, édité dans #PressBooks et publié dans différents formats ( #print, #pdf, #epub et #Web) grâce à la plateforme https://e-publish.uliege.be de #ULiegeLibrary

#Markdown #SingleSource #Publishing #OpenScience #LowTech #Numérique #Digital

What should you do if your academic publishers asks you to license a monograph for AI training?

A few people have asked my advice on this recently so I’m sharing here in case it’s useful:

• Check if models have been trained on your monographs here.
• If your work has already been used for training, it’s unlikely it will ever be removed from models. Therefore you’re effectively receiving some (inadequate) compensation for the theft of your intellectual property.
• If your work hasn’t been used for training, it’s a case of weighing up the advantages against the disadvantages. Training on your work means you might be more likely to be visible within the model (i.e. more likely to be invoked in response to a prompt about your domain) but this is a deeply unpredictable matter. Conversely it means your work might be diffused in a way that means your intellectual labour is chopped up and repackaged without any link to you.
• So it’s a case of considering how much you value the potential visibility, which I would argue is non-trivial, against how much the potential severing of the link between your ideas and your authorship bothers you.

If it helps, I agonised about this in my role as a literary executor (cared much less about my own work) and reached the conclusion that diffusion of the ideas is best served by being incorporated into training. I wouldn’t expect everyone to reach the same conclusion but I hope it’s useful to make these suggestions about factors to consider.

#intellectualProperty #LLMs #postTraining #publishing #scholarlyPublishing #Training #visibility

We invite you to join the Community Workshop on Open Source Publishing.

These workshops aim to bring together people with shared interests and/or similar goals to get to know each other through facilitated networking.

Our 2nd session will bring together people working on open publishing like book publishing, Web-to-Print, etc.

If you are active in this field and would like to meet others who are as well, you are welcome to join.

https://nlnet.nl/events/20251006/workshop-publishing/index.html

#publishing #NGI0

"The question that arises at this stage is whether openness in knowledge constitutes the Achilles heel of the once profitable legacy publishing industry or whether it is the Trojan horse of the latter for increasing its revenues."

https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/13/4/46

#publishing #openaccess #oa #academicchatter #journals

We invite you to join the Community Workshop on Open Source Publishing.

These workshops aim to bring together people with shared interests and/or similar goals to get to know each other through facilitated networking.

Our 2nd session will bring together people working on open publishing like book publishing, Web-to-Print, etc.

If you are active in this field and would like to meet others who are as well, you are welcome to join.

https://nlnet.nl/events/20251006/workshop-publishing/index.html

#publishing #NGI0

"This review draws upon insights from a curated body of recently published research papers to highlight structural injustices in academic publishing, their adverse effects on global research output, and the excessive pressure placed on faculty members to fulfill the requirements of accreditation agencies."

https://jscires.org/10.5530/jscires.20250015

#scholcomm #publishing #academicchatter #openaccess

So I relaunched my blog again. This time I’m hosting it myself. Never again with third-party platforms.

My bad experiences with Medium and @write_as led me here, to my own Jekyll solution.

My very first article published with this system talks about the journey and why this decision matters.

(Also, I have finally resolved to calling it a blog.)

https://markwrites.io/i-should-have-self-hosted-to-begin-with/

#Writing#Publishing#Design#Development#Accessibility#Blog

So I relaunched my blog again. This time I’m hosting it myself. Never again with third-party platforms.

My bad experiences with Medium and @write_as led me here, to my own Jekyll solution.

My very first article published with this system talks about the journey and why this decision matters.

(Also, I have finally resolved to calling it a blog.)

https://markwrites.io/i-should-have-self-hosted-to-begin-with/

#Writing#Publishing#Design#Development#Accessibility#Blog

"Everything I Know about Self-Publishing"

This is a great, informative read by Kevin Kelly (founder of Wired), perfect if you are noodling with the idea of self-publishing.

https://kk.org/thetechnium/everything-i-know-about-self-publishing/
#Publishing#Books#Kickstarter#Writing