In 1969 a publishing executive wryly tallied up whether and how computers had helped his industry: “Pitfalls to Computer Use in Publishing and Communication,” Daniel Melcher, Journal of Business Communication, vol. 6, no. 2, Winter 1969, pp. 47-51. The author, chairman of the R.R. Bowker Company, says: Most large publishers now have computers; many small […]
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Gutenberg’s desired output (toilet paper, of a sort)
The man who invented the printing press planned to make good, practical use of it, according to Michael Lewis (writing in Vanity Fair): The first thing Gutenberg [pictured here] sought to publish, after the Bible, was a laxative timetable he called a “Purgation-Calendar.” Here is a fragment of that Purgation-Calendar (reprinted in An introduction to […]
Intermittent headache paper
The Retraction Watch blog reports a rare case: Double negatives: Four years later, a journal restores retracted headache paper It might not be a first – although we can’t find another example — but a mental health journal has reinstated an article it retracted four years ago. The retracted retraction notice appears in the August […]
Global Slag magazine ist kaput
Global Slag Magazine, the favorite magazine of cement fanciers who like to read magazines named specifically in honor of the subject of global slag, announced that it will cease publishing. Dr. Nino Mancino, the now no-longer-editor, says “slag will be more than adequately covered as a regular feature section in Global Cement Magazine.” (Thanks to […]