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#reprints — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #reprints, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Subscription revenue isn't the only source of money pulling some #journals away from #OpenAccess.

    "If a [#pharma] company publishes an article in the #NEJM, they may order several hundred thousand copies of the article to be distributed to… doctors…These fees are not trivial. The NEJM publisher…gets 23% of its income from #reprints. The Lancet — 41%. The American Medical Association — a gut busting 53%."
    drjasonfung.medium.com/the-cor

    #Medicine

  2. Subscription revenue isn't the only source of money pulling some #journals away from #OpenAccess.

    "If a [#pharma] company publishes an article in the #NEJM, they may order several hundred thousand copies of the article to be distributed to… doctors…These fees are not trivial. The NEJM publisher…gets 23% of its income from #reprints. The Lancet — 41%. The American Medical Association — a gut busting 53%."
    drjasonfung.medium.com/the-cor

    #Medicine

  3. Justin reviews the re-release of two classic Sid Sackson games, packaged together as Samarkand Bazaar, and published by Eagle-Gryphon Games!
    meeplemountain.com/reviews/sam

    #BoardGames #SidSackson #ClassicCardboard #Reprints #Samarkand

  4. Book Detective

    "There's a growing band of people digging through library stacks and second-hand bookshops in search of lost classics. I'm one of them."

    Wobbuffet posted Lucy Scholes' article "Meet the archive moles" about editors surfacing worthy forgotten or overlooked books for reprint, with links to houses publishing recovered works.

    metafilter.com/198153/My-work-

    #books #reading #publishing #classics #lost #editors #reprints #forgotten #LostBooks #ForgottenBooks #RecoveredBooks #OldBooks #vintage #stacks

  5. Book Detective

    "There's a growing band of people digging through library stacks and second-hand bookshops in search of lost classics. I'm one of them."

    Wobbuffet posted Lucy Scholes' article "Meet the archive moles" about editors surfacing worthy forgotten or overlooked books for reprint, with links to houses publishing recovered works.

    metafilter.com/198153/My-work-

    #books #reading #publishing #classics #lost #editors #reprints #forgotten #LostBooks #ForgottenBooks #RecoveredBooks #OldBooks #vintage #stacks