> What does the future hold for academic writing? We like to think that a few years from now we will format our research papers with the web version in mind, ra

> What does the future hold for academic writing? We like to think that a few years from now we will format our research papers with the web version in mind, rather than the printed PDF. I've been thinking about this for almost a year. I believe as well that webview-first is the future of technical publications. The problem is how to either 1) get traditional publishers to adopt newer and better technology (a lot of publishers are still using systems seemingly from 90s that doesn't even support features that have been stablized in TexLive for years); or 2) build new publishers that gain enough reputation fast enough, so that the academia would consider them as good communication channels. Personally I like the second way better. It's more convenient (and easier to think out of box) to start from scratch than to change an existing system (by system I mean organizations, publishers, rather than a computer system). Academia is somehow like a trust chain. People tend to follow reputable researchers/professors. If a platform can get most reputable researchers, it can be adopted soon.