Andrew Brown: A Brief History of Encyclopaedias
(Hesperus, 2011)
Anyone who includes spoof encyclopedia titles on the book cover (A Complete Guide to Dysslexia), and starts a book about encyclopedias with a joke can’t be entirely dismissed. Andrew Brown …
A recent ALPSP meeting (February 2015) included a talk about the future of reference publishing. The speaker, David Hughes, is Editorial Director for Major Works at John Wiley, so he should know. He stated the major competition to paid-access reference …
When newspapers started to become available on the Web, the first decision – and one that has never been completely resolved – was whether the content should be free to view or available only by paid access.
The paid model …
Tom McArthur’s book is essential reading in the world of reference, although perhaps that is faint praise for a subject that has so few books dedicated to it. However, reading the book is tough going. The author makes it difficult for …
“We really did have customers in those early days— true visionary early adopters— and we often talked to them and asked for their feedback. But we emphatically did not do what they said.” This startling admission appears in the first …
There has been much noise generated by Amazon’s dispute with Hachette (see, for example, “Amazon’s page turner”, FT Sat Aug 16 2014). Most recently, over 900 authors placed an advert complaining at Amazon’s imposition of a maximum price on e-books.
Does …
Big Bang is certainly the way to describe it: At the Mark Logic London User Group, Freddie Quek of Wiley described how Wiley achieved their “big bang”, the project to redevelop what had been known as Wiley InterScience and created the …
Whatever they teach you on a computing degree, it doesn’t seem to be sufficient to create an effective web site. One of the paradoxes of the modern world is that we are surrounded by IT, and yet those who have studied …
David Penfold pointed out that the title of this one-day ISKO course (June 23, 2014) was ambiguous: was “making metadata work” about giving ourselves a lot of work to do as we try to sort out metadata? Or was it bringing …
I’ve been reading about the French Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert, in the lovely illustrated Gallimard Decouvertes volume authored by Francois Moureau, which he entitles Le roman vrai de l’Encyclopédie [ The real novel of the Encyclopedia], first published 1990). …
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