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

www.nytimes.com/...real-cost-of-college-textbooks

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 26 Jul 10 - Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 26 Jul 10
     
    Debate on the costs of college textbooks.  I think we did a better job at last year's SPI.
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Main Page - Gutenberg - 1 views

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  • arnie Grossblatt on 27 Jun 10
     
    Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart will be a keynote speaker at the Ethics and Publishing Conference.
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Pakistan Widens Online Ban to Include YouTube - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...21pstan.html

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 20 May 10 - Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 20 May 10
     
    Censorship of web content broadens in Pakistan.  Maybe they don't know that users can decide not to look at pages with offensive content.
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haystack: a project for iran - 0 views

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 16 May 10 - Cached
  • Haystack is a new program designed to provide unfiltered internet access to the people of Iran. The software package is compatible with Windows, Mac and Unix systems, and specifically targets the Iranian government's web filtering mechanisms.
  • arnie Grossblatt on 16 May 10
     
    Haystack is a new program designed to provide unfiltered internet access to the people of Iran. The software package is compatible with Windows, Mac and Unix systems, and specifically targets the Iranian government's web filtering mechanisms
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First They Came For Hitler... - Hit & Run : Fair Use - 0 views

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  • arnie Grossblatt on 08 May 10
     
    Downfall parodies meet copyright law and take down notices.  Watch this before it disappears from You Tube.
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Amazon Tracking Reader Behavior - 1 views

www.mediabistro.com/...t_on_amazon_kindle__159989.asp

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 30 Apr 10 - No Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 30 Apr 10
     
    Does it make you uncomfortable knowing that Amazon has everything you've highlighted?  What else do they know?  And what do publishers know about how their books are being read?
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Mark Fiore can win a Pulitzer Prize, but he can't get his iPhone cartoon app past Apple... - 0 views

www.niemanlab.org/...-app-past-apples-satire-police

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  • arnie Grossblatt on 19 Apr 10
     
    Apple plays the role of censor for iPad apps, and underscores the dangers of close systems.  Android looking better to anyone?
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YouTube Blog: Broadcast Yourself - 1 views

youtube-global.blogspot.com/...broadcast-yourself.html

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  • arnie Grossblatt on 24 Mar 10
     
    Viacom sues YouTube for copyright infringement.  YouTube claims that Viacom has been surreptitiously posting its own content. 
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For Google, a Risky Ploy by Turning Its Back on China - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...24google.html

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  • arnie Grossblatt on 23 Mar 10
     
    Google says no to censored search results in China, and China responds.  "Don't be evil" has costs.
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A Custody Battle, Supersized, Over Marvel Superheroes - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...21marvel.html

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  • Mr. Goldstein said cases like the one involving Marvel are only the tip of an iceberg. A new wave of copyright termination actions is expected to affect the film, music and book industries as more works reach the 56-year threshold for ending older copyrights, or a shorter period for those created under a law that took effect in 1978.
  • arnie Grossblatt on 21 Mar 10
     
    Copyright battles looming.
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Emory University Saves Rushdie's Digital Data - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...16archive.html

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  • arnie Grossblatt on 16 Mar 10
     
    Challenges, as well as opportunities, for curation in the digital age.
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Pellegrino Book Is Pulled and Publishers Ponder Procedures - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...09publishers.html

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  • ast week Henry Holt & Company stopped printing and selling “The Last Train From Hiroshima,”
  • because its author had relied on a fraudulent source for a portion of the book and possibly fabricated others.
  • digital media raises the question of what part the traditional book publisher will play in the future
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  • Publishers say that responsibility for errors and fabrications ultimately must lie with the author.
  • But in many recent cases publishers did not seem to ask basic questions of authors, accepting their versions on almost blind faith
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