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

A correction(?) to the previously posted not by Nicholas Carr on the flattening of e-book sales.

As e-books go mainstream, authors are gaining an opportunity to literally rewrite history. Eagle-eyed owners of the Amazon Kindle e-reader, like Paul Biba of the site TeleRead, have taken note of messages from Amazon letting them know that an e-book they had purchased "contained some errors that have been corrected."

Update: Though it still seems like a strong possibility that publisher demands are behind this, several commenters and other sources have pointed out that it's just as likely to have been Amazon's decision. We mistakenly stated that Amazon implied they were acting at the publishers' behest, but that was a misreading of the quote from Findings and has been corrected.

This brings up the double-edged sword: you can correct actual factual errors in real time, which is wonderful, but this also could make life rather difficult for people who cite those (erroneous) facts unintentionally and use them to further research, policymaking, etc. as they wouldn't be able to go back and say "I got my information here" because the information wouldn't be there anymore. (Or, as someone in the comments section brought up, facts can be more easily changed subject to political necessity.)