[Irtalk] All academic books must go digital — Advice for authoring a PhD or academic book — Medium

[Hilton Gibson]

As in so many other industries and areas of our social life then, the
competition of ancient, pre-digital forms of products with modern digital
forms was inherently uneven from the outset. And for a long time it got
worse as time went on. The outcome was foreseeable and known to everyone in
the publishing industry and in academia decades ago. *But the conservative
book publishers were determined to follow the music industry down the path
of digital denial for as long as they possibly could. *

https://medium.com/advice-and-help-in-authoring-a-phd-or-non-fiction/all-academic-books-must-go-digital-c81b2a8312c
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