Ethics and Publishing

Article looks at three separate studies of the educational benefit of home computers for lower income children. The studies indicate that the educational value of universal broadband access may be minimal, or worse, harmful.

this bothers me based on all of the political propoganda that masquerades as literature lately. Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck both attempt to use best-seller lists as a public bellweather of their popularity, but both give away electronic editions of their books to boost their standings. When does literature cross the line into propoganda?

OUCH! OUCH! and TRIPLE OUCH! If you need another reason to boycott Amazon.com....

Downfall parodies meet copyright law and take down notices.  Watch this before it disappears from You Tube.

Amazing how much personal information one makes available by the simple act of browsing. 

Ethics surrounding marketing and privacy

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

After a month and arduous attempts to get an answer from Amazon, a reader is locked out of his entire ebook library without a clue as to why.

Libyans are celebrating the freedom to read whatever they want in a post-Gaddafi world. Last week, bagpipers and VIPs congregated in the library of the Italianate Royal Palace for a ceremony marking the unbanning of books, the Toronto Star reported.

By Rachel Kaufman on July 21, 2011 10:20 AM New York Times Company CEO Janet Robinson said today in the company's earnings report she is "pleased" with how the New York Times' paywall has been working with consumers, and says the paywall will have a significant effect on the company's finances in the second half of the year.

U.S. District Judge Denny Chin set a September 15th ultimatum for Google to strike a revised settlement with The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers.

Another factor in the pricing of ebooks--Amazon's ranking algorithms, which may result in price increases to indie books so that they will be noticed. Indie author Edward W. Robertson is a stats junkie who's been studying the e-seller's algorithms for a while.

"We're sort of stuck in this perpetual now," Nelson said. "Figuring out what was on the Web an hour ago, a day ago, a week ago, we're really bad at that." Nelson and some colleagues at Old Dominion and the Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a sort of Internet time machine called Memento . When attached to a browser, it enables the user to search for a Web site as it appeared on some past date, if an archived page exists.

Green initiatives are prevalent throughout most industries these days, including publishing. But how sustainable are our publishing practices? Dennis Stovall, director of the publishing program at Portland State University and publisher at Ooligan Press, tackles this topic in the following interview.

A heavily corrected unfinished draft of an early Jane Austen manuscript sold at auction at Sotheby's in London on Thursday for almost 1 million pounds ($1.6 million), three times the estimated presale price, The Associated Press reported. The draft of "The Watsons" went to an unidentified buyer; Sotheby's said it is the only major manuscript by Austen still in private hands.

Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:36am EDT The journalistic improprieties keep piling up on both sides of the Atlantic as one journalist was fired and another suspended for plagiarism this week. The Kansas City Star dismissed columnist Steve Penn for copying material from press releases and claiming the opinions of other writers were his own.