Comments on: World System + connexions

By: Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Rice U. Press: Scholarly monographs go digital

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:10:01 +0000

[…] My own Rice University has re-launched its failed academic press as an “all-digital” publishing concern. It uses the Connexions system that I mentioned earlier and it will function as a regular peer-reviewed press. I think the details of licensing and price will be worked out as it develops, probably in response to what authors say they want. I do know that they intend to use Qoop.com to produce print-on-demand works—so it isn’t in fact “all-digital”—it’s just that it won’t use any conventional book-printing infrastructure. […]

By: Patricia

Patricia — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:06:15 +0000

This “bookless” book model is quite interesting. It sounds like it has great potential, especially because it uses the CC license. All the quality might not be there yet, but its a good example of the disintermediation of the publishing industry taking place now.

By: ckelty

ckelty — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:17:30 +0000

embarrasingly no. one reason is that wikipedia is all FDL and cnx is all CC. The bigger problem, however, is that cnx is trying to get “high quality” material, and so the idea of just importing everything on wikipedia goes against that ideal. Obviously some of the wikipedia stuff is good, but there’s currently no plan to integrate the two. I should also note that cnx is devoted to actually registering who wrote what, and finding ways to make sure that they get credit for doing so, at the very least in the form of attribution. Wiki is opposed to that.

By: Kerim

Kerim — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:46:45 +0000

Is there any integration with the Wiki Books project?