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Sound the Death Knell (Again) for Good Old-Fashioned Book Publishing

Walt Crawford an information scientist (and past president of LITA) of note and publisher of the great web-distributed journal Cites & Insights has recently started a weblog.

So far, I have really enjoyed Walt at Random. At great personal risk of censure, I'm going to commit the Walt identified faux pas of metablogging and point to this recent post of his concerning the oft' forecast imminent demise of traditional book publishing. It seems to me that if on the one hand, experts tell us that the established model of book publishing isn't working in our new era of e-books and internet piracy, while on the other it's failing to fail, then instead of finding new publishing models perhaps we should find new experts.