Baen and O'Reilly are both low to mid-range publishers specializing in production runs from 1,000 to say, 25,000. 100,000? Now you're talking close to bestseller status.

And yet, Baen Publishing has proven for more than a decade that they can sell MORE ebooks and MORE dead tree books if they keep ebook prices cheap and don't use DRM. Smashwords is letting authors set their own prices and seeing the average price for an e-book drop to around $3.00 the last time I checked. O'Reilly has been selling a librar subscription model for e-books online through their Safari Books Online outlet for at least as long as Baen has been working their model. Lulu has moved into editorial services for e-books as well as print on demand.

The fact is that the Big Six still haven't figured out how to sell ebooks successfully while the smaller, more nimble players are eating their lunch. Here's a couple of clues, fellas. Drop DRM and drop your prices. You'll make MORE money. :-)

We won't lose the industry, we'll lose the dinosaurs. Companies like Baen Publishing, Smashwords, Lulu, and dozens of others are making money hand over fist while the Big Six continue to follow outmoded models. Frankly, I think it's great that we're moving away from the highly consolidated market that we have today back towards a more traditional, dispersed one with many smaller players.

Not any longer.

Wait a minute, are you suggesting that having spiders run my javascript x86 emulator which runs jruby scripts which mines bitcoins, isn't practical?

How do you, as a reader, judge whether a journal is real or not?

Move that decision (however it is that you're implementing it) from the journal to the paper.

Or not. What you mind find is you judge the validity of each journal using an amazingly weak and vulnerable algorithm. Solve that problem and you'll solve the paper problem.

As I'm getting older I'm realizing more and more that the hobbies I find intellectually satisfying are rarely something that can be plugged into a social component.
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I'm finding that I have to divorce "intellectually stimulating" from "social interaction" more and more every day.

You're already half way to finding the exception, when you go out for drinks. Ever thought of making the drinks? Brewing is social and (somewhat) nerdy. Ok, it's not going to be as intellectually stimulating as programming (what ever could be?) but don't knock it.

Heck, I'd love to see HP go back to its real roots as an engineering driven firm. They got their start building the most rock solid test equipment on the planet, and they did it for a reasonable price, after all. Whatever happened to that kind of thinking?

What are you smoking??? Care must be done to do this correctly....the Federal Way!!

I was smoking ObamaYesWeCan. I saw "90 days" and thought maybe he had ordered them to not do it The Federal Way.

I was wrong. Whoever modded you troll, was wrong too. Turns out there is no (real) 90 day deadline. The president isn't serious. Again.