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Google adjusts an algorithm to to combat SEO gaming.  No longer true (at least on Google) that "All publicity is good publicity"

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has expanded its collection of eBooks to more than 200 titles. GPO and Google formed a partnership in 2010 to convert Government publications into eBook format and make the eBooks available through Google's eBookstore. GPO and Google's endeavor has increased Government transparency by making Government publications accessible to the public in a digital format.

Am I wrong to think that these ebooks should be free if the goal is government transparency?

See how public domain material moves into the non-public domain.

Public law not so pubic?

Accounting of what enters the public domain this new year's day, and a look at what could have been.

Carll Malamud's campaign to be nominated Public Printer of the United States, head of the Government Printing Office.

Contributed by Becky Robinson.

Ethics surrounding marketing and privacy

ScienceBlogs, a site aggregating dozens of science blogs, on Thursday killed Food Frontiers, a new blog developed and written by Pepsi following a fierce backlash by the site's bloggers and others in the scientific community.

Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication

The E.U. and the U.K. are usually more diligent the the U.S. in protecting the privacy of the public, but not in this case of cooperation between ISPs and a the manufacturer of an invasive targeted marketing device.

TechCrunch is reporting that Flipper is a visual version of Google News, enabling people to see images of publications . . .

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 . . .

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

Publishers fail again at basic fact-checking.  The assumption must be that the reading public doesn't care about the truth when something is called a memoir.

No penalty for misrepresenting a work of fiction as truth. The lesson of "A Million Little Pieces" is publishers will not worry about misrepresentation when it generates publicity for book.  We have a new category of work "semi-fiction" - formerly know as BS.

A useful publisher's guide to publication ethics.

Interesting piece by one of the speakers at this year's Ethics and Publishing Conference.

Greed, greed, greed to supersede the voice of the public. There has to be and needs to be and open eformat. Collusion of any kind by any companies to monopolize is wrong. Why be mad at the government actually doing its job by trying to stamp unfairness. Is this not the land of the free and home of the brave where we are afforded the right to compete on fair terms, or are we just capitalist to the harshest degree, with no wiggle room? Uncle Sam will always be the ref in these battles of monopoly. Does Amazon, Apple, and Goggle with there wholesale pillaging scan scam holding the lions share of the ePub tech and licenses make it a safe place for upstart like I would like to have in the future? I say "NO"!!! Change the game Uncle Sam for the consumer, loyalist, and publisher in this ePub wild west.

I'm not entirely convinced by CrossMark, but Retraction Watch is right that peer review doesn't (and shouldn't) stop at publication.