My wife works in book publishing. Whenever I lament the changes overtaking the legal profession, she responds with something like, “You should try my business.”

Book publishing in general—and her area of endeavor, academic publishing, in particular—has undergone a huge transformation. The transmittal of ideas in print media (books, magazines, journals) used to follow predictable paths where an author’s work was selected, edited and refined by a publisher or editor, then published and distributed by a press (book publisher, newspaper, academic or professional journal) and then sold through a supply chain of distributors and retailers.

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