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Derik Dupont

New York Times to Begin Website Charges in January - WSJ.com - 0 views

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New York Times Co. Charging Online Web Newspapers Publishers

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  • Derik Dupont on 18 May 10
     
    The New York Times will begin charging for access to articles on its website in January, Bill Keller, executive editor of the newspaper, said at a dinner for the Foreign Press Association. " />
arnie Grossblatt

Publishers Nurture Rivals to Kindle - WSJ.com - 0 views

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ebook reader kindle Amazon

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 04 May 09 - Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 04 May 09
     
    Students of GW can get full access to this article through http://www.gelman.gwu.edu. Go to the listing of databases and search for the Wall Street Journal.
arnie Grossblatt

Google Claims Orphan Books, Raising Alarm in Academia - 0 views

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google books copyright fair use orphan works

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    Concern the the Google-AAP settlement gives Google an unfair advantage wrt to orphan books and may inhibit scholarly access to these out-of-print works.
arnie Grossblatt

Google Books and the Judge: The New Yorker - 0 views

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google publishing bookstores print on demand Google Books

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 21 Sep 09 - No Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 21 Sep 09
     
    Google is planning to become the worlds largest bookstore with a print-on-demand agreement to give access to two million out-of-print books.
Derik Dupont

Students can research books on their iPods.... But will they? | Technology | Los Angele... - 0 views

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Students Books iPods Questia E-Books

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  • Derik Dupont on 19 Nov 09
     
    Questia Library Plus iPhone app. Credit: Questia We'll spare you the obvious "there's an app for that" joke. But you can get a library's worth of books on your phone. Questia, an online research portal for students, announced its application today for reading books, articles and periodicals on an iPhone or iPod Touch. The app costs 99 cents for 5,000 public-domain books and a week of unlimited access. After that, users can buy a two-week subscription for $9.99. There are so many things wrong with this we don't know where to start. For one, students don't like to buy things....
Kristen Iovino

Amazon.com: JohnShore.com: Kindle Store: John Shore - 1 views

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Kindle amazon author monthly profit

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  • Kristen Iovino on 25 Oct 11
     
    I've never seen this feature before- you can pay for monthly access to a blog for your Kindle. This author's blog is $1.99 per month.
Michael Pogachar

Pearson launches API for books, images - 2 views

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API Pearson Penguin

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  • Michael Pogachar on 12 Oct 12
     
    Pearson provides developers with access to dozens of classic books and thousands of images through an application programming interface.
Elizabeth Ralls

The "Open" Prescription - Why It Doesn't Always Make Sense « The Scholarly Ki... - 2 views

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open access publishing

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  • Elizabeth Ralls on 20 Nov 11
     
    "'Open' accounting doesn't make you an accountant; 'open' long-haul trucking doesn't make you a long-haul trucker; and 'open' science doesn't make you a scientist. It takes more than permission to become competent."
arnie Grossblatt

Court Rejects Equal Access Rules for Internet Providers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Net Neutrality

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    A bad day for net neutrality, and that's not good.
arnie Grossblatt

The Real Cost of College Textbooks - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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textbooks publishing ethics business model pricing open access

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    Debate on the costs of college textbooks.  I think we did a better job at last year's SPI.
Natalie Barnes

BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » The Absent Silence - 5 views

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google info.trust

shared by Natalie Barnes on 30 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • how Google gets and handles its information is an industrial secret
  • But a great corporation, even one sworn to do no evil, makes no such bargain with the public. There is no reciprocity. Trust is not mutual. It’s understood that the public interest, if considered at all, comes second to the interests of the corporation — profit, growth, and power. So the corporation can and will keep its secrets, even though what it is dealing in is information, even when its business is making knowledge accessible, open, free — the very opposite of keeping secrets.
  • Natalie Barnes on 30 Oct 10
     
    Ursula K. LeGuin is disturbed by Google's keeping secrets about information
arnie Grossblatt

Library Inc. - - 2 views

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libraries education books publishers e-books

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.
  • Through innocuous incremental stages, academic libraries have reached a point where they are now guided largely by the mores of commerce, not academe.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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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