HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 🥳🎉🎊

I don’t know about anyone else, but I am cautiously optimistic about my prospects for the year ahead. Feel free to read my first blog post in 3 years to find out why.

https://iangregoire.co.uk/2026/01/01/a-new-year-is-for-new-beginnings/

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A New Year Is For New Beginnings

  As another new year commences, I am shocked to note that the last blog post I wrote for this site was submitted almost three years ago to the day. While I don’t wish to dwell on the cause of…

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Maria Bustillos @maria & the Brick House team are the creative minds behind BRIET, a new exchange that invites publishers to sell eBooks to libraries, allowing libraries to own them, not just license them. Several indie publishers are already on board.

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New scholar-led publisher looks to reshape academic press ...

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