M.J. Rose reports that a growing number of novelists are putting their work online, free of charge, where it can develop a following, and then succeed in attracting bids from mainstream publishers. To Rose, the lesson is that the stigma of self-publishing is vanishing. To me, the lesson is that open access is compatible with traditional publishing and revenue, even if only in succession and not simultaneously.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/24/2002 12:12:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
