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Well, this long article is mostly addressed (by the director of Princeton University Press) to other University presses. Unfortunately, Dougherty’s suggested do
by CalmQuiet 17y ago
Well, this long article is mostly addressed (by the director of Princeton University Press) to other University presses. Unfortunately, Dougherty’s suggested domains of strategic leverage for sustaining university presses barely alludes to the issue of electronic-vs-printed publishing.
I think that the next decade will show that such timid, traditional strategies will lead University Presses down the same road as newspapers. Embrace the new technology. Revolutionize your business model: seize the lead. Or welcome extinction.
- TrevorJ 17y agoI still say that you can't engage a text online in the same ways you can in print. When it's just you and the text in a coffeehouse you've got no Google to turn to. There's no scrolling to the comments to get the gist of the article. In short, you have to do the work yourself. When it comes to the hard ideas he is talking about, struggling through unaided until you finally grasp the concept is one of the best ways to internalize the real guts of the concept in the text. There's also the physical aspect of taking notes in the margins and being able to remember content by it's location on the page or how far into the text it is. A whole host of spatial considerations that electronic media can't replicate in the same way. *Edit for typo.