Kategorie: Publishing

I always found the realtionship between Science and Politics very fascinating.On the one hand, at least in Germany, a lot of scientists claim that is very important for them to be independent of politics. Which was for a lot of them never really true – most university salaries are paid by the state, a lot…

I wsa recently participating in a session at SSP 2011 which was about „eBooks“ – standards, best practices etc. etc. Moren than 50% of the session and 99% of the entire discussion part were about DRM though. Can you imagine – there’s 50 intelligent professionals in the room and all they can think about is…

Check out this article/interview on O’Reilly Radar. It is hard to imagine any German company even considering such a radical change. That’s why they are all going out of business sooner or later. Sad but true.