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Katharina Muders

Bringing the power of Creative Commons to Google Books - Business Exchange - 0 views

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    Google Books launched an initiative to help authors and publishers discover new audiences for books they've made available for free under Creative Commons (CC) licenses. Rightsholders who want to distribute their CC-licensed books more widely can choose to allow readers around the world to...
Katharina Muders

Google Europe Chief Suggests Publishers Take Responsibility - Business Exchange - 0 views

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    European publishers join the rush to blame Google for the publishing industry's problems, but Google Europe Chief Philipp Schindler suggests that the industry needs to look at themselves.
yunju wang

ABC seeks law ensuring free content on broadband | The Australian - 0 views

  • "This principle of free carriage of publicly funded content should be included in the public interest objectives of the NBN company and the company should be legislatively obliged to devise an effective mechanism for implementing it." The ABC's submission proposed the federal government establish a list of internet addresses that the NBN would exempt from download charges for ISPs. The savings would then be passed on to consumers.
  • Dumping free, state-sponsored news on the market makes it incredibly difficult for journalism to flourish on the internet," he said. "Yet it is essential for the future of independent digital journalism that a fair price can be charged for news to people who value it."
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    THE ABC has called on the federal government to pass laws ensuring consumers won't have to pay to access any publicly funded content carried on the planned national broadband network, a measure that would give it a huge advantage over its commercial rivals.
Shan Luo

Will Twitter-to-Facebook Publishing Make You Tweet Less? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Twitter users can already send their tweets to Facebook. Now Facebook users can do the reverse with an app called SocialToo.
yunju wang

Supporters Press for Google Books Settlement - PC World - 0 views

  • Google's digitized book service will tear down barriers for people living in low-income areas, added Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.
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      well, im curious how it works since often in the case, low-income area doesn't really have access to computers.
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    A proposed settlement between Google and book publishers and authors will give huge new advantages to students, minorities and disabled people, supporters said Thursday.
Amit Kelkar

QUT ePrints - 0 views

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    Articles by Jean Burgess at QUT. Interesting researcher who has just co-authored a book with @joshgreen
Sandra Rivera

Institute for the Future of the Book - 0 views

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    "For the past five hundred years, humans have used print - the book and its various page-based cousins - to move ideas across time and space. Radio, cinema and television emerged in the last century and now, with the advent of computers, we are combining media to forge new forms of expression. For now, we use the word "book" broadly, even metaphorically, to talk about what has come before - and what might come next."
Suzanne Cardwell

Sony Turns the Page with Its New Reader - BusinessWeek - 0 views

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    Two e-book readers due in late August aim to close Sony's sales gap with Amazon, whose Kindle continues to sizzle. Again, interesting in light of Thompson article.
Amit Kelkar

How citation distortions create unfounded authority: analysis of a citation network -- ... - 1 views

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    Objective: To understand belief in a specific scientific claim by studying the pattern of citations among papers stating it.
anonymous

What Google Understands About the Future of News and Publishing That Publishers Do Not ... - 0 views

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    In digital media, on the web, the news package is now a function of software - which is why Google is innovating precisely where publishers are not.
Renee Xin

Sony ramps up e-book self-publishing options | Crave - CNET - 0 views

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    Sony ismaking a real push into this area with a new Publisher Portal and partnerships with self-publishing companies Smashwords and Author Solutions. This is really good news for self-publishing avoiding the traffic that Amazon does.
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    "Sony ramps up e-book self-publishing options"
Amit Kelkar

Hardy & The Age to publish mbook - 2 views

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    Marieke Hardy, who some may know from The First Tuesday Book Club on the ABC and also as a Melbourne Triple J presenter is going to launch a "mbook". Mbooks are where a story is sent by SMS over a number of days. This style of writing has become very popular in Japan.
Huang Jing

Amazon.com takes Kindle global - 0 views

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    Amazon.com Inc is introducing Kindle, its wireless electronic reader, for over 100 countries, including China. Still, the problem is the price of reader.It is better to use lower price to attract more consumers.
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