The Publishing Partisans - Conservatives, Reformers, and Upstarts « The Schol... - 0 views
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Thierry Buquet on 04 Nov 10With the political season upon us in the U.S., this is a good time to reflect on how publishers align themselves almost along political grounds on the topic of the role of digital media. This is not an attempt to smoke out political liberals or conservatives, nor is there any attempt at an allegory here: Dennis Kucinich and Chrisine O'Donnell are not referred to, hinted at, or invoked in any way. What is apparent, though, is that among publishers of all stripes, not just those working in scholarly communications, attitudes concerning electronics fall into clusters, and the members of these clusters behave as though they belonged to a loosely connected political party.