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The FT hopes the wind is set fair for the online launch of its glossiest title - but there are doubts whether luxury brands will consider it the place to spend their advertising money. By Katie Allen

This study presents the results of an exploratory multimethod evaluation study and transcript analysis of an online forum.

While current computing practice abounds with innovations like online auctions, blogs, wikis, twitter, social networks and online social games, few if any genuinely new theories have taken root in the corresponding "top" academic journals. Those creating computing progress increasingly see these journals as unreadable, outdated and irrelevant. Yet as technology practice creates, technology theory is if anything becoming even more conforming and less relevant. We attribute this to the erroneous assumption that research rigor is excellence, a myth contradicted by the scientific method itself. Excess rigor supports the demands of appointment, grant and promotion committees, but is drying up the wells of academic inspiration. Part I of this paper chronicles the inevitable limits of what can only be called a feudal academic knowledge exchange system, with trends like exclusivity, slowness, narrowness, conservatism, self-involvement and inaccessibility. We predict an upcoming social upheaval in academic publishing as it shifts from a feudal to democratic form, from knowledge managed by the few to knowledge managed by the many. The technology trigger is socio-technical advances. The drive will be that only democratic knowledge exchange can scale up to support the breadth, speed and flexibility modern cross-disciplinary research needs. Part II suggests the sort of socio-technical design needed to bring this transformation about.

Education that includes at least some online work is more effective than classroom-only teaching, according to a major research review done for the Department of Education.

Online: The Future of Newspapers? Germany's dailies in the World Wide Web

Content is moved online, whilst advertisers have been slow to follow. Channel 4 decided to put the most channel's content online in full online, including advertising.The broadcaster will share the revenues earned with YouTube.

Stephen King has published two works in internet. The first was "Riding the bullet", which sold around 500,000 copies online. With that success, King started the publication of a second work online, The Plant, with the idea of selling each chapter at $1. But he decided to suspend the experiment, because it didn't work as he thought it might.

Everybody's talking about content monetisation. David Howe looks at two proposals on the table from Google and Microsoft

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Yochai Benkler, a Yale University law professor and author of the new book "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom" (Yale University Press), has gone even farther: his entire book is available - free - as a download from his Web site. Between 15,000 and 20,000 people have accessed the book electronically, with some of them adding comments and links to the online version.

Vowing to fight unauthorized reproduction of news reports online, The Associated Press said Thursday that it will add software to each article showing who created it and what limits apply to the rights to use it. The software will also notify the A.P. about how the article is used across the Web.

As texting has gone mainstream among the over-20 set, the acronyms have only grown longer and more confusing, giving rise to the necessity of online lexicons for parents and CEOs alike. "

After a long hiatus, online bookseller Amazon is back trying to encourage us to read in a new way. Its Web site now features this description of its Kindle reading device: "Availability: In Stock. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available." This good news for consumers comes after the first batch of the devices sold out in just six hours late last year.

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Google plans to launch an online store to deliver electronic books to any device with a web browser, threatening to upset a burgeoning market for dedicated e-readers dominated by Amazon's Kindle.

Dan Brown's latest selling novel "The Lost Symbol' has become available in its entirity online just days after it hits shelves in bookstores globally.

MaximumPC.com is the best online resource for PC News. Visit Maximum PC and read about Google Helps Sony's eBook Store Surpass 1 Million Mark.

This is a important step forward and that people are realizing that putting information and pics online is not always that helpful.

On October 7 in a New York courtroom he will preside over a "fairness hearing" for a deal between Google and US publishers and authors to put millions of books online.

The appeal is much more about the technology and the people than about the catalogue. 7digital is a really fantastic technology platform. We believe that as the government is tackling the issue of