Comments on: Write Now and the Slow Death of Print http://adistantsoil.com/2009/03/19/write-now-and-the-slow-death-of-print/ The Official Website of A Distant Soil, the legendary graphic novel series from Image Comics. Mon, 21 May 2012 16:54:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran » Archive » Newspaper Industry Meltdown http://adistantsoil.com/2009/03/19/write-now-and-the-slow-death-of-print/#comment-1316 A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran » Archive » Newspaper Industry Meltdown Tue, 12 May 2009 04:52:22 +0000 http://adistantsoil.com/?p=1564#comment-1316 [...] up on previous posts about the slow death of print, our friend Rus Wornom, formerly of the Richmond Times Dispatch, has been doing excellent blogging [...] [...] up on previous posts about the slow death of print, our friend Rus Wornom, formerly of the Richmond Times Dispatch, has been doing excellent blogging [...]

]]> By: Colleen http://adistantsoil.com/2009/03/19/write-now-and-the-slow-death-of-print/#comment-925 Colleen Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:15:52 +0000 http://adistantsoil.com/?p=1564#comment-925 Thanks for that, Torsten. I spent about two months doing research for my new project. The last time I spent a lot of time having to do research for a gig, I spent about $500 on reference books. I spent less than $50 on reference books this time, with almost everything I needed being online form the New York Historical Society and the US Archives. My father is an adjunct professor and one of the things he always grouses about is the cost of textbooks. I don't see students buying textbooks at all, in future, but school simply having a surcharge on tuition which is applied to the costs of providing content by online publishers of texts. Thanks for that, Torsten.

I spent about two months doing research for my new project.

The last time I spent a lot of time having to do research for a gig, I spent about $500 on reference books.

I spent less than $50 on reference books this time, with almost everything I needed being online form the New York Historical Society and the US Archives.

My father is an adjunct professor and one of the things he always grouses about is the cost of textbooks. I don’t see students buying textbooks at all, in future, but school simply having a surcharge on tuition which is applied to the costs of providing content by online publishers of texts.

]]> By: Torsten Adair http://adistantsoil.com/2009/03/19/write-now-and-the-slow-death-of-print/#comment-924 Torsten Adair Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:10:21 +0000 http://adistantsoil.com/?p=1564#comment-924 Regarding your first point: the University of Michigan Press just announced that almost all of their future titles will be digital, with print-on-demand paper copies available. Libraries will be able to purchase licenses to their catalog of titles. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/23/michigan (The comments section is worth the read. While I will continue to purchase hardcover monographs from university presses, having the ability to search the text (especially on ancillary titles) will facilitate research.) I see serialization moving online, with both digital and print collections available at a later date. Regarding your first point: the University of Michigan Press just announced that almost all of their future titles will be digital, with print-on-demand paper copies available. Libraries will be able to purchase licenses to their catalog of titles.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/23/michigan
(The comments section is worth the read. While I will continue to purchase hardcover monographs from university presses, having the ability to search the text (especially on ancillary titles) will facilitate research.)

I see serialization moving online, with both digital and print collections available at a later date.

]]> By: Colleen http://adistantsoil.com/2009/03/19/write-now-and-the-slow-death-of-print/#comment-885 Colleen Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:31:07 +0000 http://adistantsoil.com/?p=1564#comment-885 I will never look at tootsie rolls the same again. Private joke. Nothing to see here! I will never look at tootsie rolls the same again.

Private joke. Nothing to see here!

]]> By: Colleen http://adistantsoil.com/2009/03/19/write-now-and-the-slow-death-of-print/#comment-880 Colleen Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:11:36 +0000 http://adistantsoil.com/?p=1564#comment-880 I do believe you do, though I have had nothing to do with the certain someone in years. I get the impression you think as lowly of them as I do. I do believe you do, though I have had nothing to do with the certain someone in years.

I get the impression you think as lowly of them as I do.

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