News: The E-Reader Effect - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views
When Data Disappears - 0 views
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LAST spring, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas acquired the papers of Bruce Sterling, a renowned science fiction writer and futurist. But not a single floppy disk or CD-ROM was included among his notes and manuscripts. When pressed to explain why, the prophet of high-tech said digital preservation was doomed to fail.
The Long Goodbye? The Book Business and its Woes - 0 views
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hree centuries ago, John Locke agreed that we shouldn't base our freedom to read books on the proclaimed good offices of the business itself. "Books seem to me to be pestilent things," he wrote in 1704, "and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind, that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society, and that general fairness that cements mankind."
if:book: saving scholarly publishing and saving civilization - 0 views
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Michael Jensen, the always-ahead-of-the-curve Director of the National Academies Press gave a stunningly original speech at the recent AAUP (American Association of University Presses) which, in his words, "allowed me to talk about the two issues that matter most to me: saving scholarly publishing, and saving civilization. In 16 minutes."
Open Access Voted Down at Maryland « The Scholarly Kitchen - 0 views
UM Library: Agreement With Amazon Will Make U-M Digital Books Widely Available - 0 views
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