10.5281/zenodo.18166
https://zenodo.org/records/18166
oai:zenodo.org:18166
Worthington, Simon
Simon
Worthington
Book to the Future - a book liberation manifesto
Zenodo
2015
anti-copyright
archives
book
book liberation
copyleft
copyright
education
freedom
knowledge
learning
library
manifesto
OA
OER
2015-05-31
10.5281/zenodo.610125
https://zenodo.org/communities/hybrid-publishing-consortium
Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International
The Book Liberation Manifesto is an exploration of publishing outside of current corporate constraints and beyond the confines of book piracy. We believe that knowledge should be in free circulation to benefit humankind, which means an equitable and vibrant economy to support publishing, instead of the prevailing capitalist hand-me-down system of Sisyphean economic sustainability. Readers and books have been forced into pirate libraries, while sales channels have been monopolised by the big Internet giants which exact extortionate fees from publishers. We have three proposals. First, publications should be free-at-the-point-of-reading under a variety of open intellectual property regimes. Second, they should become fully digital — in order to facilitate ready reuse, distribution, algorithmic and computational use. Finally, Open Source software for publishing should be treated as public infrastructure, with sustained research and investment. The result of such robust infrastructures will mean lower costs for manufacturing and faster publishing lifecycles, so that publishers and publics will be more readily able to afford to invent new futures. For more information on the Hybrid Publishing Consortium see http://consortium.io/