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. Kevin Green, a junior, loved the e-book required in his business-marketing class this spring. "But if it was an accounting course," he said, "I would kind of want a printed textbook because it's got all the numbers" and equations that would be harder to manage electronically. His instructor, Michael J. Wilson, an associate professor of accounting, economics, and finance, said the one problem they had with the e-book in the marketing course was when students needed to refer to a dense table of numbers in the bac

"'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."

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

Interesting that several people on this list have 0 works.

Will open access journals accept anything for publication? Account of an experiment with a Bentham open access journal.

While several colleges across the country are pushing electronic textbooks, touting them as more efficient and less cumbersome than regular textbooks, students are reluctant. E-textbooks still account for only 9% of textbook purchases, says Student Monitor, which researches college student behavior.

Use OverDrive, an alternative to Amazon's Prime accounts only Kindle Lending Library program

Twitter to leverage advertising "Special Deals" with "Promotional Tweets"

"Verizon is blogging that their closed-door ten month negotiations with Google are about 'openness and accountability.' Isn't that an oxymoron? "What does appear to be happening here is Verizon and Google are trying to protect revenues by crafting voluntary, self-regulatory rules that will pre-empt tougher government rules."

A new analysis for the effectiveness of print advertising, based on previous performance metrics instead of potential views. Looks like publications could be getting less in revenue.