Book to the Future - a manifesto for book liberation - Worthington, Simon
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The Book Liberation Manifesto is an exploration of publishing outside of current corporate constraints and beyond the confines of book piracy. We believe that knowledge should be in free circulation to benefit humankind, which means an equitable and vibrant economy to support publishing, instead of the prevailing capitalist hand-me-down system of Sisyphean economic sustainability. Readers and books have been forced into pirate libraries, while sales channels have been monopolised by the big Internet giants which exact extortionate fees from publishers. We have three proposals. First,…mehr

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The Book Liberation Manifesto is an exploration of publishing outside of current corporate constraints and beyond the confines of book piracy. We believe that knowledge should be in free circulation to benefit humankind, which means an equitable and vibrant economy to support publishing, instead of the prevailing capitalist hand-me-down system of Sisyphean economic sustainability. Readers and books have been forced into pirate libraries, while sales channels have been monopolised by the big Internet giants which exact extortionate fees from publishers. We have three proposals. First, publications should be free-at-the-point-of-reading under a variety of open intellectual property regimes. Second, they should become fully digital - in order to facilitate ready reuse, distribution, algorithmic and computational use. Finally, Open Source source software for publishing should be treated as public infrastructure, with sustained research and investment. The result of such robust infrastructures will mean lower costs for manufacturing and faster publishing lifecycles, so that publishers and publics will be more readily able to afford to invent new futures
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Simon Worthington is a researcher in future publishing, including - free and open source software, economic models, and the politics of Open Science. Author of 'The Book Liberation Manifesto' outlining plans for the automation of publishing infrastructures to contribute to making research available to all. He is the Editor of 'Generation Research' an editorial platform for Open Science in Europe for the Leibniz Association Research Alliance Open Science and is based in R&D at the Open Science Lab, TIB - German National Library of Science and Technology. In 1994 he co-founded and published Mute magazine and continues as a member of the editorial collective and as publisher. He originally studied Fine Art at the Slade School, UCL (UK) and CalArts, Los Angeles (USA). https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8579-9717