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From corporate publishing, via self-publishing, to cloud publishing

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Michel Bauwens
19th August 2009


Book Oven is constructing tools and processes for the collective and independent production of books.

In a thoughtful, but really hard to summarize blog entry, the concept of self-publishing is rejected, in favour of ‘cloud publishing’.

Read the whole article here.

Just the definition:

“Cloud-publishing will provide the tools to allow groups of people to easily coalesce around the production, distribution and sale of a particular book or books. How those groups organize themselves will look different from book to book.”

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