{"id":1820,"date":"2006-09-02T10:44:28","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T15:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=65"},"modified":"2008-11-05T17:14:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T21:14:29","slug":"convergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/02\/convergence.html","title":{"rendered":"Convergence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a topic comes at you from several different angles.  Hopefully this allows one to see it in a broader fashion&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The college where I work just finished the first week of classes.  Many students have incredible financial pressures when it comes to purchasing their required class texts ( see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isbn.nu\/0073209287\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isbn.nu\/0321277139\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isbn.nu\/0534463320\">here<\/a> for three representative texts ).  I am becoming more and more convinced that the current publishing structure for texts cannot survive.  There will be a backlash, whether it be textbook rental systems at schools, or a new publishing mindset like the open text movement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikibooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensourcetext.org\/\"><span class=\"txtbold\">California Open Source Textbook Project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globaltext.org\/\">Global Text Project<\/a> (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlham.edu\/~peters\/fos\/2006_08_27_fosblogarchive.html#115719836026641810\">Open Access News<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unshelved.com\/archive.aspx?strip=20060902\">Unshelved<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a topic comes at you from several different angles. Hopefully this allows one to see it in a broader fashion&#8230; The college where I work just finished the first week of classes. Many students have incredible financial pressures when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/02\/convergence.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2925,2943,2948,2954],"tags":[3046,3083],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-libraries","category-news","category-open-access","tag-california","tag-textbook-rental-systems"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-tm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}