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The Future of Publishing: Navigating Planned Obsolescence in the Digital Age

Explore the challenges of planned obsolescence in the publishing industry and its impact on scholarly communication. Discover how the humanities can adapt to the digital age and embrace change for a better future.

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The Future of Publishing: Navigating Planned Obsolescence in the Digital Age

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  1. Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy • Kathleen Fitzpatrick // @kfitzkfitzpatrick@mla.org

  2. In many cases, traditions last not because they are excellent, but because influential people are averse to change and because of the sheer burdens of transition to a better state.— Cass Sunstein, Infotopia

  3. obsolescence

  4. death

  5. digital humanities

  6. the humanitiesin and forthe digital age

  7. scholarship in and for the digital age

  8. scholarly communication

  9. “too much financial risk... to pursue in the current economy”— the marketing guys

  10. “They were planning on making money off of your book?”— Mom

  11. book ≠ dying form

  12. change

  13. conservative

  14. We Have Never Done It That Way Before

  15. “While we are very adept at discussing the texts of novels, plays, poems, film, advertising, and even television shows, we are usually very reticent, if not wholly unwilling, to examine the textuality of our own profession, its scripts, values, biases, and behavioral norms.”— Donald Hall

  16. self-criticism

  17. change

  18. social, intellectual and institutional change

  19. costaccess

  20. the ways we research

  21. the ways we write

  22. the ways we review

  23. peer review

  24. peer review

  25. but

  26. disciplinary technology

  27. self-policing

  28. gatekeeping

  29. scarcity is over

  30. plenitude

  31. create artificial scarcity

  32. coping with abundance

  33. impact

  34. post-publication

  35. whether a text should be published

  36. how it has been (and should be) received

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