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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>
	<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Fillmore</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[alaska]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[allostery]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[blueblood]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[boston globe]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[brahmin]]></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!
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		<title>Pedagogical Interface (PI)</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2010/01/26/pedagogical-interface-pi/</link>
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		<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>

		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pedagogical interface]]></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 pipe with a cash register at every possible outlet, an immediate means to access everyone [...]]]></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>

		<category><![CDATA[moral rights]]></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 rights&#8221; (permanently and indelibly linking the author or artist to the work of art s/he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indies and the Human Interface</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2009/10/20/indies-and-the-human-interface/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Fillmore</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bookselling]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[amazon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bookclerk]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bookstore]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[chain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[NEIBA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wetware]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I attended my first New England Independent Booksellers (NEIBA) conference in Hartford the other weekend, where many participants bemoaned the drop in the number of attendees. Some said the show used to be twice as big, say ten years ago, when there were many more independent bookstores. Apparently it was much more vital then, before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Settlement Causes International Ruckus</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2009/10/19/google-settlement-causes-international-ruckus/</link>
		<comments>http://pubnews.obs.com/2009/10/19/google-settlement-causes-international-ruckus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Fillmore</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Frankfurt Book Fair]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[New Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Publishing and Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[copyright]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[google settlement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Americans shoot first, ask questions later,&#8221; said the moderator of one panel discussion on the Google settlement held at this week&#8217;s Frankfurt Book Fair, reflecting widespread sentiment among non-US-based publishers and agents. &#8220;You Americans are all asleep,&#8221; noted one agent to me. &#8220;Why are you allowing this takeover of the publishing industry by a .com [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patronage the New Business Model ?</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2009/05/22/patronage-the-new-business-model/</link>
		<comments>http://pubnews.obs.com/2009/05/22/patronage-the-new-business-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 15:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Fillmore</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[New Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Publishing and Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA["business model"]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA["online publishing"]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[patronage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pedagogical interface]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[reader paid]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[reader pay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A LinkedIn blogger asked: Is the book publishing business model so broken that we need patrons to subsidize our work? ( see http://is.gd/BNkV )
Patronage is one way to do it, but, as with advertising in books, if you follow the money, you may well find that the lucre influences the content, and compromises objectivity. Democracy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Amazon&#8217;s New Foray into Publishing Means</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2009/05/16/what-amazons-new-foray-into-publishing-means/</link>
		<comments>http://pubnews.obs.com/2009/05/16/what-amazons-new-foray-into-publishing-means/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 01:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Fillmore</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[New Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[amazon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[authors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[publishing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[self publishing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Recently on LinkedIn, a publisher posed the question: What can we learn from Amazon’ s foray further into book publishing http://is.gd/Aawt and their attempt to allow bloggers to monetize their blogs by publishing them on Kindle http://is.gd/zOoF ?
To which I responded:
Amazon is in a great position to become a publisher now, situated as they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who needs Web 2.0?</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2009/04/14/who-needs-web-20/</link>
		<comments>http://pubnews.obs.com/2009/04/14/who-needs-web-20/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Fillmore</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[New Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA["online publishing"]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ebooks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[journals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[microbiology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[stm]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[web 2.0]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I found this fascinating quote today:

I&#8217;ve given a few talks on why these new tools are failing to catch on &#8212; here&#8217;s an early one given at a publishers meeting, and a later one given to an audience of scientists.&#160; The short answer, if you don&#8217;t want to read my lengthy posts, is that very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Focus: Protean Press Expands</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2009/03/02/london-focus-protean-press-expands-as-obs-becomes-virtual-publishing-company/</link>
		<comments>http://pubnews.obs.com/2009/03/02/london-focus-protean-press-expands-as-obs-becomes-virtual-publishing-company/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Fillmore</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[New Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[OBS News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Protean Press]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Publishing and Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In April, OBS and its subsidiary Protean Press will attend the London Book Fair with the goal to seek out publishing partners for new Protean Press titles. We will be:

Selling paperback, foreign, and other sub rights and licenses to Joe Garland&#8217;s &#8220;Unknown Soldiers: Reliving World War II in Europe,&#8221; which has been published to much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OBS and Protean Press in Germany</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2008/10/14/obs-and-protean-press-in-germany/</link>
		<comments>http://pubnews.obs.com/2008/10/14/obs-and-protean-press-in-germany/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Fillmore</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Frankfurt Book Fair]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[OBS News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our president, Laura Fillmore, is visiting Germany this week for the Frankfurt Book Fair and for the annual conference of the International Association of Scientific, Technical &#38; Medical Publishers (STM), which OBS has just joined. At the Book Fair, we&#8217;re participating with the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) at Hall 8.0, Stands A935 &#38; A936, and we&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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