Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, a. Fitzpatrick, Henning<|

Planned ObsolescencePublishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy\nAuthor(s): Kathleen Fitzpatrick\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814727874, 978-0814727874\nSynopsis\nChoice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013\n A bold approach to re-envisioning the future of academic publishing\n Academic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure committees are facing a range of new ways of working without a clear sense of how to understand and evaluate them.\n Planned Obsolescence is both a provocation to think more broadly about the academy's future and an argument for re-conceiving that future in more communally-oriented ways. Facing these issues head-on, Kathleen Fitzpatrick focuses on the technological changesesped