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The iPad, the Kindle, and the future of books : The New Yorker - 4 views

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Excellent overview of the current state of the publishing industry, the impact of e-books, and the power of Amazon, Apple and Google to affect the future of publishing.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Excellent overview of the current state of the publishing industry, the impact of e-books, and the power of Amazon, Apple and Google to affect the future of publishing.</div>

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Notes on Unbound Books - A Conference Report (Part I) « OPEN REFLECTIONS - 1 views

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Report on a three day gathering of experts on books, publishing and reading, to collaboratively explore the future of the book and the transformation of reading, publishing and learning. Session videos are available.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Report on a three day gathering of experts on books, publishing and reading, to collaboratively explore the future of the book and the transformation of reading, publishing and learning. Session videos are available.</div>

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Library Inc. - - 2 views

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 04 Nov 10 - No Cached

Yet libraries, the intellectual heart of universities, have become perhaps the most commercialized academic area within universities, with troubling implications for the future of higher education.
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Through innocuous incremental stages, academic libraries have reached a point where they are now guided largely by the mores of commerce, not academe.
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Over the last decade, however, as the number and cost of journals have soared, most libraries have decided to forgo purchasing hard copies. The shift from owning a journal to merely providing access to its digital incarnation has, of course, saved some money. But those savings come in tandem with detrimental changes both to the content of library collections and the ways those collections are used.
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According to both the professional literature and information-vending companies' usability studies, a library's chief task is to meet the information needs of its patrons
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For university libraries, retrieving what is known should be only the beginning. They are laboratories of the mind, unique places where questions that have never before been asked can be formulated and answered; they are centers of teaching where patrons can learn about the organization and the production of knowledge
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or universities, the libraries' experience is a cautionary tale. Commercial practices, technologies, and innovations often seem to benefit and support the academic mission of universities. But commercial innovations are not value-free, and it has proven very difficult for libraries to embrace some components while rejecting others.
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arnie Grossblatt on 04 Nov 10

Interesting, if a bit unbalanced, about the corruption of university libraries by commercial publishers and the pressure of "good enough" information in a Googlized world

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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: The Future of Books. - 0 views

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A humorous view of the future of the book.

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The End of Book Publishing As We Know It - 0 views

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CEO of Thomas Nelson on the future of book publishing.

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Book: A Futurist's Manifesto | Just another PressBooks site - 4 views

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arnie Grossblatt on 01 Dec 11

A very interesting collection of essays on the future of the book and publishing. Free to read online and available in print from O'Reilly.

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The publishing conspiracy that's blocking an electronic version of Palin's memoir. - B... - 3 views

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Ryan Holman on 02 Oct 09

If electronic books are the future-literary volumes optimized for the Kindle, the Sony Reader, the iPhone-how come two of this fall's hottest books won't be available in digital form anytime soon?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">If electronic books are the future-literary volumes optimized for the Kindle, the Sony Reader, the iPhone-how come two of this fall's hottest books won't be available in digital form anytime soon?</div>

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Bob Edwards Weekend - The Bob Edwards Show - 2 views

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Must-listen radio. This is the first of 3 shows dealing with the future of book publishing. Highly recommended

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The "book" is dead [dive into mark] - 1 views

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 01 May 11 - No Cached

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Challenges in the future of technical books.

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The Future of Libraries - Telegraph - 0 views

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Danielle DeVenio on 14 Sep 11

Since this was a topic of discussion in last class and we didn't touch on this point....the future of libraries involves sharing their special collections digitally

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Tim O'Reilly Unplugged: The Kindle 2 And Transforming Industries - David Berlind's Tech... - 0 views

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Tim O'Reilly interview about Kindle and the future of book publishing.

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The Fight Over the Future of Digital Books - 0 views

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The Authors Guild filed suit against five universities and the digital tower, called HathiTrust, that those universities created to preserve and make available to students and faculty scans of books from their collections.

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Blog Touring - End of Innocence, Beginning of Wisdom « Future Perfect Publishing - 0 views

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from a friend: "a nice round up of blog touring - aka virtual book touring - which is an increasingly popular (and green) option for authors, particularly as the number of traditional book store venues concentrates."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">from a friend: "a nice round up of blog touring - aka virtual book touring - which is an increasingly popular (and green) option for authors, particularly as the number of traditional book store venues concentrates."</div>

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Part two of our three-part series on the future of publishing - 2 views

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Second part of a very interesting series on the future of publishing. iPod worthy.

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Will the Book Survive Generation Text? - 1 views

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This shift, of course, plays into the problem, since any shrewd publishing type can see how the paper book's demise might make it easier to digitally trim, abridge, and repackage texts in more "appealing" forms than their benighted authors envisaged.
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A useful text with which to muse on this subject is Robert Darnton's The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future (PublicAffairs, 2009).
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arnie Grossblatt on 03 Sep 10

A reflection on threats to sustained, immersive reading and the culture that produces it.

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Publishing: The Revolutionary Future - The New York Review of Books - 2 views

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Jason Epstein, a major figure in publishing, looks back to look forward to the future of publishing.

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Enhanced E-books and the Future of Publishing - 3 views

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The combination of text, video, and archival media is the perfect medium for the new Jacqueline Kennedy volume

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What IF? - 0 views

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shared by Amanda Litvinov on 10 Jul 09 - Cached

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Reading will keep getting more dynamic as we veer away from print, says The Institute for the Future of the Book.

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Hybrid Books: 'Illuminations' And The Future Of The E-Reader : NPR - 1 views

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It is no secret to anyone at this point that e-books are here, they are real and, as reported this week, they are adding up to a sizable chunk (often 20% or more) of publishers' sales.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">It is no secret to anyone at this point that e-books are here, they are real and, as reported this week, they are adding up to a sizable chunk (often 20% or more) of publishers' sales.</div>

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The Future Of Libraries In The E-Book Age - 2 views

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If you haven't already seen/heard this, it's worth the perspective

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