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  1. 📚️ #IndependentPublishers to follow:

    @canongatebooks - Award-winning independent publisher, Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel, Irvine Welsh etc
    @bwjewishhistory - Small indie Jewish history press
    @ArachnidPress - Indie publishers based in Scotland, thriller & mystery fiction
    @WTPress - Indie sci-fi & fantasy press in Wales
    @ododopress - Speculative fiction press based in Uganda
    @StelliformPress - Indie literary press, sci-fi, fantasy, horror on environmental crisis

    #Publishers #Books #Fiction

  2. Fans of open access, unite: you have nothing to lose but your chained libraries

    When books were rare and extremely expensive, they were often chained to the bookcase to prevent people walking off with them, in what were known as “chained libraries”. Copyright serves a similar purpose today, even though, thanks to the miracle of perfect, zero-cost digital copies, it is possible simultaneously to take an ebook home and yet leave the original behind. For a quarter of a […]

    #analogue #ao3 #archives #diamondOpenAccess #digital #fanFiction #libraries #metadata #openAccess #publishers #reputation #reviews #royalSociety #s20 #subscribeToOpen #trueFans

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