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Novice Monks on a Boat - Chao Phaya, Bangkok 2001 It's all hustle and bustle on this river that flows through Bangkok and there ar...

Milan Cathedral August 1961 The PND seniors went to Milan and Florence for their honeymoon and this is one of the images from that tri...

If employers won't value for profit education what's the prospect? ( WaPo ): Education researchers have actually conducted a number...

A re-post originally from November 9, 2009: There is a self-publishing conference in NYC this weekend which reminded me of a project I wo...

Re-post from March 28,2008 Trouble at Mill. Manufacturing of old had it that the mill owner owned the means of production and the mill wor...

News that Pearson has purchased the self-publishing roll-up Author House reminded me of this post from September 19, 2007 which I wrote just...

An interesting report on the development of library publishing services was published in March ( LINK ) Here is a description of the surve...

I was never that aware of The Monkees but the passing of Davy Jones generated a lot of reminiscing.  Mrs. PND recalls the time her Dad broug...

As frequent visitors to PND will know, I have been posting images out of my family archive for about two years now. As it turns out, I'...

The Chronicle of Higher Ed looks at the Research Works Act: ( Chron ) Whatever the executive branch decides to do about open-access manda...

To the average Apple aficionado, today’s spectacle on Apple’s entry into the education space would have seemed just par for the course.  Hy...

Originally posted July 10, 2007. Traveling to a new location for vacation (and sometimes business) can be an exciting event and generally a ...

Self publishing site Blurb has launched blurbforgood.com that enables people or groups with a cause to create books supporting those causes ...

CompletelyNovel a small start-up social book site 'out of' Nawfth Lahdn (North London) has reached the London final of a new busines...

Rachel Donadio in The NYTimes book review section has an essay on the expansion of publishing. As she points out, if reading is generally go...

mThe NYTimes covers the d0-it-yourself self-publishing segment including a focus on the cottage industries that are developing around techno...

The Guardian takes a look at the US self-publishing market and notes some impressive statistics fron Lulu.com. Lulu says it publishes 4,000...

I am a big fan of Blurb.com's publishing solution. I have used it a number of times to produce high quality photo books and I currently ...

Lulu.com the self-publishing juggernaut announced the appointment of Bryce Boothby Jr. as President and COO of Lulu Enterprises. Boothby, 57...

The news that Author House and iUniverse.com were merging was not entirely unexpected, but it is interesting to me that the publishing commu...