The other day, I was sent a text message by a senior academic friend who has a healthily sceptical view of the open access work that I do. The question was: "re. Monographs, authors should be paid for their work, the publishing business model now allows for that as would online pay walls (not much but depends on book and who you are). How do you deal with that in mandatory OA, would we all be working for publishers for free?" My responses and

This is the tenth interview in a series, Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing, by Adeline Koh. Each article in this series features an interview with an academic publisher, press or journal editor on how their organization is changing in response to the digital world. The series has featured interviews with Duke University Press, Anvil Academic, NYU Press, MIT Press and the Penn State University Press.

A twitter conversation that I had with Michelle Brook this morning. [View the story "Openness for society or for profit?" on Storify] Openness for society or for profit? was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on April 19, 2014.

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This article originally appeared, in a shorter, edited form in the Guardian: Is UK humanities research reaching the widest possible audience? Today marks the launch of another report into the open access ecosystem; a space that is rapidly becoming extremely saturated.

It's almost 2 years since I founded the open access journal Alluvium, which publishes short, topical articles written by leading academics on 21-century writing and 21st-century literary criticism. Launched in June 2012 with my colleague Dr Martin Eve, the journal has gone from strength to strength and its growing readership is spread across the globe.

I'm very pleased to be able to say that I will be speaking at the symposium on David Mitchell, organised by Courtney Hopf and Wendy Knepper, on the 9th May at NYU London. Should anyone else wish to attend, you can register interest online.

OK, so this was utterly painful and I needed to share what finally worked for me. I have 2 x Nvidia GTX480 cards. I have 3 x monitors. I wanted to be able to run all three off the same box, using it as a single X Screen (i.e. so I can move windows between screens and it acts correctly). No matter what I tried, it wouldn't let me do so with the proprietary driver. I asked on Stack Exchange and got somewhere closer.

With his fastest turn-around in well over a decade, Paul Thomas Anderson completed production on Inherent Vice last summer, just around a year after initial screenings of The Master began.

Martin Paul Eve, Pynchon and Philosophy (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) Thomas Pynchon, perhaps the most important living American author, is famed for his lengthy, complex and erudite fictions. Given these characteristics, an examination of the philosophical dimensions of Pynchon's works is long overdue.