Thanks to Slaw for bringing this to our attention…
In terms of legal publishing we imagine a wonderfully co-operative world (yes HOB loves to dream) where the best practitioners / academics in a certain area of law from all over the world collaborate to produce a definitive version of a looseleaf type publication.
They all chip in a few $’s to have a freelance/outsourced editor to manage the publication and all share in the spoils of sales. Or even better they donate earnings to a cause such as raising the awareness of jailed human rights lawyers in China.
As I said we do like to dream here at HOB.
The Open Humanties Press write…
http://liquidbooks.pbworks.com/w/page/11135951/FrontPage
Welcome to the Culture Machine Liquid Books series wiki!
Culture Machine Liquid Books is a series of experimental digital ?books? published under the conditions of both open editing and free content.
As such, you are free to compose, rewrite, edit, annotate, translate, tag, add to, remix, reformat, reinvent and reuse any of the books in the series, or produce parallel versions of them – and what’s more you are expressly invited and encouraged to do so. (We would appreciate it if you would tell us about it if you do so away from this site.)
The wiki you are currently reading has been set up to expressely facilitate such experimention. It provides you with read/write access to all the volumes in the Liquid Books series. (All you need to do is click on ‘Log in’ above the Sidebar on the right and request access.)? A full list of the volumes in the series is provided for you on the Sidebar. You also have the ability to comment on, respond to, and debate with the text of these books, the authors, and other readers using the ‘Add a comment’ feature (see below).
Where appropriate, some of the most interesting results of such open writing and editing – as chosen by Culture Machine’s editors and peer-reviewers on a case by case basis – will be ‘frozen’ and published by Open Humanities Press as new versions of volumes in the Liquid Books series in their own right. These volumes, in common with all of Open Humanities Press’ books, will be run through the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office’s suite of services and made freely available full text online, as HTML, and – again where appropriate – PDF as well. It is hoped that Print-on-Demand and e-pub book versions will be available in this way in the future, too.