So what will the web mean to academics, always on the lookout for places to publish their work? “The biggest change is that publication is suddenly cheap. Academics have always had much more opportunity to write than they’ve had sponsorship for publication so books and articles have had to be concisely focused – optimised – to deliver the most information using the fewest words. The Web allows an entirely new, discursive style of presentation, where an author can take however much space she needs to be as clear as possible.” – The Idler