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Possible generation-gap-type issues for digital educational publishing for colleges: "Today, the college assumes all students not only have computer skills but a plethora of high-tech devices and services. The class schedule and registration procedure is entirely online-even if you're in the registrar's office....In the first class, the professor handed out her e-mail address and the URL where the syllabus could be found--instead of her office phone number and a copy of the syllabus. Unfortunately, the college sites are full of graphics and animations and download very slowly on my dial-up connection. (Even if I could afford a broadband connection, my ISP doesn't provide it in my area.)" "At least one exercise in each chapter requires accessing the publisher's textbook Web site. Many of these exercises could just as easily be put on the computer disk also sold-at an increased profit (I used to work for a textbook-preparation company)-with the text....Again, a dial-up connection won't download the videos. The audio files are .mp3; I can't open them, don't have the skill to know what program I need, and have no access to free technical support....So once every chapter I head for either the heavily used public library or the equally heavily used computer lab in the college's suburban learning center (branch campus)--and hope that a computer is available."

Interesting ideas on a "first class" experience for online news readers.

I wonder if Eric Sclater will be talking about this case in his copyright law class. Curious to see how this plays out.

I can see this definitely being a topic in Eric's class. I just wonder why AP waited so long to claim copyright infringement? This image has become so popular and a part of history, that is probably what is prompting this law suit. I want to see the outcome of this as well - should be interesting!

Will DRM kill the Kindle?

Basic Social Media Marketing Course - Class room training with expert trainers and customized corporate training for business Peoples.

Nicole Gattone from class found this calendar online.

Tucked away in libraries across the country are unexpected archives and world-class treasures, including nurse romance novels, forgers and other frauds, and painted books.

This looks like the article discussed by Bob Faherty in Thursday's class.

Just thought I'd post this article since we were talking about it in class last night.

This has more to do with last night's class than the epub class, but I thought this tiny tidbit was interesting considering one of the last things we heard last night was about the demise of a verification process.

An update on the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act that we discussed in class on Monday.

Article about papers leaving AP, as Michael mentioned in class yesterday for industry news.

This is the article about a study done on response time in Wikipedia I mentioned in class last night. Very interesting stuff!

Speaking of reading an e-book, our text book for this class is apparently on Google Book Search. Maybe some of you knew that already, but I sure didn't! I like that this page also gives a list of other similar books.

Here's another free online class from HP Learning Center, this time on Web 2.0.

Not that we all don't know what an e-book is (scary thought if we are in this program and don't!), but I just thought it was interesting that HP Learning Center is offering a class about e-books. Seems with the rising popularity of the Kindle, every has something to say about e-books.

For those in last night's Copyright Law class, here's a NYT article akin to what we spoke about last night regarding copyrighting/patenting food. This is a couple of years old, but . . .

In class we talked about making things catchy or coming up with inventive strategies for attracting customers that are constantly bombarded by "cool." I tihnk this relatively new search engine might be on to a way to give customers a reason to use their product over the other guys that are trying to do the same thing.

This is a great site that can incorporate reading books into your RSS Feed. The idea is that you get a book sent to your Reader in installments that are a few paragraphs long each. I think this is pertinent to both our classes.