Permapublishing: Toward Sustainable Publishing Practices
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The sustainability of publishing systems goes far beyond the production of printed books, and there is now an urgent need to examine digital production methods, from software to the technical infrastructures used to disseminate knowledge. Despite a lack of consideration for the durability of these publishing modes, the tools and other technical workings can be rethought to take into account the dimensions of longevity and sobriety. As a concept and a community of practice, permacomputing allows us to explore radical initiatives in the use of computing in a limited context. Its extension into the field of publishing, permapublishing, is an opportunity to identify and analyze sustainable publishing modes that can be shared, hijacked or extended, through the elaboration of three structuring principles: decoupling, deprecation and empowerment.References
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