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The book is described as "a work of conceptual protest that challenges the commodification of knowledge in academic publishing, using mathematical and algorithmic techniques to resist institutional control over intellectual labour"

See for example, their book Zipf Maneuvers: On non-reprintable materials, by Andrew C. Wenaus & Germán Sierra, with an introduction by @sshaviro.bsky.social, www.erratumpress.com/zipf-maneuvers

Book cover, with image of humanoid figures walking into the distance of an indistinct cityscape, their heads and the surrounding image obscured in parts by abstract lines and forms, with the image as a whole overlaid by two long thin horizontal black rectangles, offset from each other, redolent of document censorship practices

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As they write, their academic division, "welcomes formal innovation as well as work that pushes thought in new directions from within traditional academic constraints. It is not wedded to a particular discipline, only to books which seek to rethink the existing settlement"

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Really wonderful to have @erratumpress.bsky.social join as the newest member of the Open Book Collective. A genuinely innovative press, publishing experimental, conceptual open access books.

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Triple digits! A century! 1,100,100! (in binary). Symbolically really important for us -- half of the way to our first big target, of 200 supporting institutions by 2029 (which we really need to sustain ourselves, and our members, into the long term)

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

To keep up to date on where we'll be and what we're doing, why not join our mailing list? We send out brief monthly updates and a more detailed newsletter every quarter - click the link below to sign up. 👇 www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 01/05/2026

“The question is not whether a new open access mandate is coming (it is), but if the sector is remotely prepared for it (it is not).”

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

With Carole Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social and Francesca Corazza. Thank you so much @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social for hosting us so well

Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

One door closes, another opens: the @openbookcollective.bsky.social team got together in Manchester on the second to last day of the @copim.bsky.social OBF project to plan our collective work together for the coming years. Have come out feeling really excited & hopeful about what we can do together

Francesca Corazza, Caroline Ball and Joe Deville smiling at the camera, in an office with "future of education" printed as text on a display board, partially visible to the left

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Check out the panel session on 14 May featuring @joedeville.bsky.social from @openbookcollective.bsky.social alongside @erudit.org @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca ✍️ The Future of Collective Funding Models for Open Access 🔗 buff.ly/NMzyE6m 2/2

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Btw my press funded a small study into best-practices for alt text for illustrations, especially of illustrations of art. The resulting guide is short and clear and available free to download.

spectrum.library.concordia.ca

How Do You Picture It? Suggested Guidelines for Alt-text in Art Books - Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository

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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

🍽️ What happens when parenting becomes an economic project? @joedeville.bsky.social @ninabandelj.bsky.social talk to @philiproscoe.bsky.social & @addiemcgowan.bsky.social about how parenting is shaped by markets, metrics, and digital platforms. youtu.be/otObwf4tStY?...

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The calculated child: The emotional-economic logics of parenting

YouTube video by Cultural Economy in the Kitchen

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Thoth Open Metadata @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social · 01/04/2026

🎉 Aand, it's done! Thoth 1.0 is live! 🎉 🎉 And with it, our new website 🎉 (below a comparison of the old style (yellow) vs. the new look - head over to thoth.pub to see for yourself)

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Huge congratulations to you all!

Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I like the fact that baby yellow is so visible cheering along all our project successes

Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Felt fitting to me that one of the last @copim.bsky.social plenary interventions at #UKSG2026 came via @simonxix.com's clear and direct call to remember that, as we have always argued, open access without open infrastructures -- e.g. in libraries, in research -- means little. Such a great talk.

Simon Bowie stage right, with a large wide format slide behind him, which simply reads "No open access without open infrastructure", framed either side by two UKSG logos. Tasha Mellins-Cohen from Counter Metrics, sits stage left at a table.

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

V. pleased to announce this. We have been working together for some time, but the MoU helps formalise things. The divisions between books & journals in the scholarly system are ultimately arbitrary, so this kind of collaboration is vital to collectively argue for better ways of doing open publishing

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Yes! And then there can be a parallel one with me and @jofitz.bsky.social

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Yes fair point. I'm speaking mainly about what this means for libraries and their investment/acquisition decisions. To me, it is an important and necessary step along the road to institutionalising support for Diamond OA in UK HE. But absolutely, this will mean little, if anything, to academics

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8/7 Addendum/correction: I guess we would not fully endorse this bit ("as well as innovative and sustainable schemes run by commercial publishers"), although in combination with the points about governance, it does put in place significant and likely challenging expectations for commercial models

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7/7 Also likely of interest to @oapenbooks.bsky.social @doabooks.bsky.social and @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social and @ojcollective.bsky.social (yes it's about books, but hopefully in future libraries will be provided with similar recommendations around journals)

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6/ We at @openbookcollective.bsky.social agree with all of this, and it aligns well with arguments @copim.bsky.social has been making throughout. Thanks to the CSN for its leadership and here's hoping that it helps further shift the needle towards a sustainable, fairer open publishing future

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5/ "The governance of schemes should guard against the commercialisation of scholarly infrastructure to ensure equitable access and use in the long term"

4/ "Libraries should prioritise and champion schemes run by not-for-profit, community- owned or scholar-led initiatives (that are protected from commercial acquisition), as well as innovative and sustainable schemes run by commercial publishers"

3/ "Libraries should also use their resources (and their influence with academics) to go beyond local drivers in support of open access to support the transformation of academic publishing more widely"

2/ Some highlights: "We are committed to supporting open infrastructure for open access monographs, and the service providers that develop the platforms and software solutions that enable them to be found, read and engaged with. For example, DOAB, OAPEN, Open Book Collective and Thoth Open Metadata"

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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 13/03/2026

1/ This feels like a watershed moment to me. @rluk.ac.uk's Collections Strategy Network has posted new guidance on the criteria Research Libraries should use when making their investment decisions on #OpenAccess monographs, inc. recommending @openbookcollective.bsky.social as one model to consider

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Meta is dropping encrypted messages from Instagram DMs from 8 May. This means that your all private conversations will be readable by Meta, shareable with advertisers, and subpoenable by courts. Privacy should be a default. Sign our petition. www.mozillafoundation.org/petitions/ke...

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Tell Meta: Keep Encryption for Instagram Messages

Meta has quietly said it will end support for encrypted messaging on Instagram in a matter of weeks. Encryption helps ensure that what your messages stay between you and the person with whom you're co...

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Rupert Gatti @rupertgatti.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

For those that missed it - videos of all sessions at the @copim.bsky.social conference last week are now available on the Internet Archive. Lots of enthusiasm and stimulating discussion around community-led publishing of #openaccessbooks .... archive.org/details/copi...

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Copim Conference 2026 : Copim Community : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

On Feb 26 and 27, 2026, the two-day conference brought together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven open access book...

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Aberdeen University Press @abdnunipress.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Annual reminder to tag us if you or your child dress up as an AUP book character for World Book Day tomorrow. I would suggest going as a Scottish Benedictine monk in 17th century Germany, but Patrick Gordon or Sorely Maclean are always great option. Explore more here: www.fulcrum.org/aberdeenunip...

Portrait of a Benedictine monk, seated on a red chair, holding up a hand and appearing to be speaking. He has tonsured black hair, a full beard, and a black cloak. Image is public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

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Paula Kennedy @paulakennedy.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The @copim.bsky.social conference last week was such an excellent conference. Copim and #OpenBookFutures have been such important projects for moving discussions and practices for #OpenAccess books forward 🙌

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7/6 Oops. Tagged in the wrong Anna Hughes! This is the @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social I meant to mention and thank.. ! For all the absolutely amazing work on putting this conference together. Thanks again Anna! 😅

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6/6 All images are free to reuse. Photography by Stuart Hollis www.hollisphotography.uk

5/ Thank you to our incredible conference organising team, including @annalchughes.bsky.social, @alittleroad.bsky.social, @clairemcgann.bsky.social, @scholtom.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, Sue Pell & Holly Turpin, as well as to the @lborouniversity.bsky.social conference team

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4/ .. it showed both the real work required to change things in local settings, but also a range of inspiring examples of what can be possible. Recordings of this and all sessions will soon be made available, if you missed it.

3/ We at @openbookcollective.bsky.social brought together librarians from around the world to discuss their work as #DiamondOpenAccess changemakers. Chaired by @heroicendeavour.bsky.social & with contributions from Fatimah Abduldayan, @jillasella.bsky.social, @mambalu.bsky.social & Sarah Thompson..

2/ .. but they also extended wider to include the place of scholarly knowledge in open publishing, what doing accessibility for books really looks like in practice, and how - in Siddharth Soni's closing keynote - authorship, authority, and intellectual labour are being reconfigured

1/ We did it.. the first ever Copim community conference ... done! Approx 250 people joining on and offline, over two days, with delegates representing every continent and 49 countries. Inevitably our discussions centred on the futures of #OAbooks...

A crowd of delegates, arranged in a rough semi circle, looking up at the camera, some cheering

Two delegates talking to each other during a coffee break, both smiling, other delegates in the background

Caroline Ball speaking, holding a lapel mic, with Fatimah Abduldayan, Martina Benz, and Sarah Thompson sitting alongside, with Martina looking up and back at a screen off camera

View from the back of a tiered lecture theatre, showing around 100 delegates seated in rows looking at a screen at the front, showing a remote delegate speaking, with four other speakers sitting below and to the left

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