Comments on: Redefining the Book: Carnegie Mellon and Lulu.com http://www.stoa.org/archives/818 Serving news, projects, and links for digital classicists everywhere. Wed, 08 May 2013 16:09:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mike Riley http://www.stoa.org/archives/818/comment-page-1#comment-124286 Mike Riley Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:19:41 +0000 http://www.stoa.org/?p=818#comment-124286 I can’t speak to the widespread implications of this for the academic community, but it will be nice to see (hopefully!) a little bit more respect for some of the less well-funded publications that seek refuge at Lulu.

]]> By: Dot Porter http://www.stoa.org/archives/818/comment-page-1#comment-121605 Dot Porter Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:46:01 +0000 http://www.stoa.org/?p=818#comment-121605 I think that outsourcing printing to print-on-demand companies such as Lulu.com is *the* way to go in the future for University and other academic publishers. More than anything it just makes economic sense – creating a system that (it would seem to me anyway) lacks the overhead of traditional publishing. No need to worry about unsold stock or backorders. At the University of Kentucky, for the past couple of years we have also discussed releasing materials available on our websites (the Neolatin Colloquia, for example) via Lulu, simply betting that there is an audience for the work that isn’t interested in reading the full texts from a monitor (or printing them out themselves). How nice to have a printed hardcover instead of a handful of printouts! (Note: we haven’t actually done this yet, but it’s been floating around in our heads… Are there any digital projects that have released print-on-demand?)

The issue of academic standards is important for these print-on-demand books but no more so than for projects being published via the web. I would think the same rules apply – transparent, obvious peer review, with a well-documented process behind it. (In some cases, perhaps, better than what you’ll find in traditional publishing.)

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