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arnie Grossblatt

Open Access Publisher Accepts Nonsense Manuscript for Dollars - 0 views

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    Author-pays model meets bottom-line publisher. The vanity press of scholarly publication?
arnie Grossblatt

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business - 0 views

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    This article is over a year old, and soon to be updated by Chris Anderson's book of the same title, but it's still well worth the read.
arnie Grossblatt

Microsoft Quashed Effort to Boost Online Privacy - WSJ.com - 0 views

  • In the end, the product planners lost a key part of the debate. The winners: executives who argued that giving automatic privacy to consumers would make it tougher for Microsoft to profit from selling online ads. Microsoft built its browser so that users must deliberately turn on privacy settings every time they start up the software.
  • A Wall Street Journal investigation of the practice showed tracking to be pervasive and ever-more intrusive:
  • The 50 most-popular U.S. websites, including four run by Microsoft, installed an average of 64 pieces of tracking technology each onto a test computer.
arnie Grossblatt

The Real Cost of College Textbooks - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    Debate on the costs of college textbooks.  I think we did a better job at last year's SPI.
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    This is not likely to have any real effect. Textbooks are sold to a captive market. Those who are paying their tuition without benefit of student loans will buy the books without thinking too much about the cost. Those who are going to school on student loans will go into debt.
arnie Grossblatt

Welcome to Wylie World! | SQUARE BOOKS - 1 views

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    The Wylie agency signed a deal to exclusively distribute e-books of its authors through Amazon. Want to read Philip Roth, Dave Eggers, Saul Bellow in digital form?  Better get a Kindle. 
arnie Grossblatt

Make Textbooks Affordable - 0 views

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    Good background for our panel on higher ed publishing.
arnie Grossblatt

Maureen Down talks to Google CEO about future of newspapers - 0 views

  • “The best way to get out of this is to invent a new product. That’s the way Google thinks. Incumbents very seldom invent the future.”
Thelisha Woods

Google Flipper: A Visual Version Of News? - 0 views

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    TechCrunch is reporting that Flipper is a visual version of Google News, enabling people to see images of publications . . .
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    This is all just speculation at this point, but maybe Google Flipper will mend the relationship that Google has had with some newspaper publishers. We'll see . . .
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