Does the use of blogs and wikis ease or enhance the struggle of authors driving towards publication? Read the thoughts of McKenzie Wark, professor of media and cultural studies at New School University as he undergoes this process for his new book GAM3R 7H3ORY.

Also read the thoughts of Kathleen Fitzpatrick in a guest article for the Valve on the future of academic publishing and tenure. Fitzpatrick calls for new forms of scholarly ouput that suit the actual requirements of academia in an age of digital media:

"If this is how we consume research in the humanities—read the book’s introduction for the overall argument; read the chapter that most clearly applies to our own questions for the detailed analysis—then is the production of the book itself no more than a vanity?"