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	<title>What's New at Open Book Systems</title>
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	<description>Pioneering in e-publishing since 1982.</description>
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		<title>Upside-Down Equation: Shrinking Returns on E-Authorship Here to Stay?</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/09/08/upside-down-equation-shrinking-returns-on-e-authorship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Fillmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently spoke to a potential distributor for a series of paper and e-books we are publishing. He said that if we supply printer-ready PDFs and give his company exclusive global rights to distribute our book, they would “push it out” (sounds &#8230; <a href="http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/09/08/upside-down-equation-shrinking-returns-on-e-authorship/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Down the Rabbit Hole with the Espresso Book Machine</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/06/16/down-the-rabbit-hole-with-the-espresso-book-machine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Fillmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published in IPNE newsletter, June 2010 A group of fifteen IPNE members visited Harvard Book Store on June 4th, to witness the digital revolution turn yesterday’s “gentleman’s business” of publishing into everyman’s global printing press. The Espresso Book Machine (EBM), squired &#8230; <a href="http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/06/16/down-the-rabbit-hole-with-the-espresso-book-machine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>ABA to BEA and Beyond</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/06/16/aba-to-bea-and-beyond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Fillmore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bookselling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published in the IPNE Newsletter&#8211;June 2010   Back when BookExpo America (BEA) was the American Booksellers Association (ABA) Convention and Trade Exhibit, this was the biggest, most lavish book conference in the country, where the publishers introduced their fall lists &#8230; <a href="http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/06/16/aba-to-bea-and-beyond/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate &#8220;Alone at Sea: Gloucester in the Age of the Dorymen (1623-1939)&#8221; by Dr. John Morris</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/06/02/celebrate-alone-at-sea-gloucester-in-the-age-of-the-doryman-1623-1939-by-dr-john-morris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Fillmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We at OBS are delighted to announce the publication of  Dr. John Morris&#8217;s new book &#8220;Alone at Sea: Gloucester in the Age of the Dorymen (1623-1939).&#8221;  This beautifully illustrated book represents some 10 years of research conducted by John as he &#8230; <a href="http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/06/02/celebrate-alone-at-sea-gloucester-in-the-age-of-the-doryman-1623-1939-by-dr-john-morris/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Volcanic Consequences</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/05/03/volcanic-consequences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 18:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Fillmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our trip to London Book Fair was scotched because of the Icelandic volcano, cancelling our rights and other business meetings we had scheduled. However, it appears that the once-perceived-to-be-flagging BEA later this month will enjoy a boost in business, as many globally-based companies &#8230; <a href="http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/05/03/volcanic-consequences/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In Context: Factory Trawlers vs. Wooden Dories</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/03/30/in-context-factory-trawlers-vs-wooden-dories/</link>
		<comments>http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/03/30/in-context-factory-trawlers-vs-wooden-dories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Fillmore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we sent to the printer our latest book, Dr. John Morris&#8217;s Alone at Sea: Gloucester in the Age of the Dorymen (1623-1939) (Commonwealth Editions, Beverly, Mass.). Stunningly beautiful, thoroughly researched, and comprehensive (448 pages with 76 period photographs and &#8230; <a href="http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/03/30/in-context-factory-trawlers-vs-wooden-dories/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>interRAI Pioneers New Medical Publishing Model</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/03/26/interrai-pioneers-new-medical-publishing-model/</link>
		<comments>http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/03/26/interrai-pioneers-new-medical-publishing-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Fillmore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agile Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acute care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assessment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community mental health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evaluation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geriatric]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The interRAI organization, a nonprofit founded in 1994, serves geriatric and disabled populations around the world with their health care instruments for evaluation and assessment of health care. OBS puts our publishing expertise to work in helping populate and manage &#8230; <a href="http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/03/26/interrai-pioneers-new-medical-publishing-model/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>OBS Imprint Protean Press Publishes &#8220;Kipling&#8217;s Cat&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/02/05/obs-imprint-protean-press-publishes-kiplings-cat/</link>
		<comments>http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/02/05/obs-imprint-protean-press-publishes-kiplings-cat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Fillmore</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alaska]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read about Protean Press&#8217;s latest book, &#8220;Kipling&#8217;s Cat&#8221; by Anne Cabot Wyman in the Gloucester Daily Times, or at the Wyman book site. Exciting times!]]></description>
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		<title>Pedagogical Interface (PI)</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/01/26/pedagogical-interface-pi/</link>
		<comments>http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/01/26/pedagogical-interface-pi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Fillmore</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["online publishing"]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems to me that a Pedagogical Interface (PI) will prove to be a primary outcome of online publishing. Since the 1990s, publishers have gotten very good at using the internet as an infinite library of digits, a gigantic distribution &#8230; <a href="http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/01/26/pedagogical-interface-pi/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Controlling Context: We Are Who We Are by the Company We Keep</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2009/10/22/controlling-context-we-are-who-we-are-by-the-company-we-keep/</link>
		<comments>http://pubnews.obs.com/2009/10/22/controlling-context-we-are-who-we-are-by-the-company-we-keep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Fillmore</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copyright]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether one chooses to define ownership of content through copyright (treating creative output as an object to be owned and bought and sold by a defined party over a specified period of years), or through the European model of &#8220;moral &#8230; <a href="http://pubnews.obs.com/2009/10/22/controlling-context-we-are-who-we-are-by-the-company-we-keep/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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