{"id":493,"date":"2005-12-12T02:36:30","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T02:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=493"},"modified":"2005-12-12T02:36:30","modified_gmt":"2005-12-12T02:36:30","slug":"electrapress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/12\/electrapress\/","title":{"rendered":"ElectraPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen Fitzpatrick has put forth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electrapress.com\/wp\/?p=3\">a very exciting proposal<\/a> calling for the formation of an electronic academic press. Recognizing the crisis in academic publishing, particularly with the humanities, Fitzpatrick argues that:<br \/>\n<em>The choice that we in the humanities are left with is to remain tethered to a dying system or to move forward into a mode of publishing and distribution that will remain economically and intellectually supportable into the future.<\/em><br \/>\ni&#8217;ve got my fingers crossed that Kathleen and her future colleagues have the courage to go way beyond PDF and print-on-demand;  the more Electrapress embraces new forms of born-digital documents especially in an open-access pubishing environment, the more interesting the new enterprise will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen Fitzpatrick has put forth a very exciting proposal calling for the formation of an electronic academic press. Recognizing the crisis in academic publishing, particularly with the humanities, Fitzpatrick argues that: The choice that we in the humanities are left with is to remain tethered to a dying system or to move forward into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,544,549,1423,1546,1547,1932],"tags":[2830],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-e-publishing","category-ebooks","category-peer_review","category-publishing","category-publishing-broadcast-and-the-press","category-university","tag-publishing-e-publishing-academia-ebooks-university-peer_review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}