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arnie Grossblatt

The Oxford English Dictionary Definitions of 'Print' And 'Digital' | Epicente... - 0 views

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    Speculation that the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary will be digital only.
MJ Slazak

The real costs of digital - 1 views

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    Interesting look at actual costs of books and how it relates to ebooks
arnie Grossblatt

Hard times for traditional books as China's digital publishing industry grows - Books, ... - 2 views

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    And an astonishing 91 per cent of the 20,000 people polled in the survey said they would now not bother to buy printed books if they could find a digital version.
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    I use my Kindle / iPad for all of my reading. Once I began using them, a strong preference for reading on them developed.
Mark Schreiber

Startup Gives Digital Textbooks the Ol' College Try | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

  • Despite their promise, digital textbooks haven’t taken off for two big reasons: ease of use and price.
arnie Grossblatt

In Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks - 0 views

  • Though the world of print is receding before a tide of digital books, blogs and other Web sites, a generation of college students weaned on technology appears to be holding fast to traditional textbooks.
  • According to the National Association of College Stores, digital books make up just under 3 percent of textbook sales, although the association expects that share to grow to 10 percent to 15 percent by 2012 as more titles are made available as e-books.
  • three-quarters of the students surveyed said they still preferred a bound book to a digital version.
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  • The expense of college textbooks, which is estimated to have risen four times the inflation rate in recent years, has become such a concern that some politicians are taking up the cause.
arnie Grossblatt

U Michigan Press To Go All Digital for Monographs - 0 views

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    U of M Press will publish monographs only in digital form with an option for POD. The money quote "I have been increasingly convinced that the business model based on printed monograph was not merely failing but broken,"
Thelisha Woods

Sony EBook Store to Offer Classic Books Digitized by Google - Business Center - PC World - 0 views

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    Public-domain books from before 1923 digitized for Google Book Search will be available for free to Sony Reader users
Derik Dupont

Amazon.com`s sales of digital books could increase 84% in 2010 | InternetReta... - 0 views

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    Amazon.com Inc. could sell $248 million worth of digital books in 2010, up 84% from $135 million in 2009, according to an estimate from Credit Suisse ...
Derik Dupont

Hearst Plans Digital Service for Periodicals - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    Hearst plans to launch next year a service called Skiff to sell digital subscriptions to newspapers and magazines in a format it hopes will be more visually appealing to users of electronic readers and other electronic devices." />
Derik Dupont

Print Vets Looking to Go Digital Find Switch Difficult - Advertising Age - MediaWorks - 0 views

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    It is becoming increasingly difficult for even seasoned professionals to segue from print to digital.
Derik Dupont

Google, Others Digitizing Books in Europe - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    While Google remains in legal limbo with its effort to put books online in the U.S., such digitizing is moving ahead in different places in Europe under several experimental programs." />
Derik Dupont

Emory University Saves Rushdie?s Digital Data - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    As research libraries and archives are discovering, "born-digital" materials are much more complicated and costly to preserve than anticipated.
Derik Dupont

Google to Launch Digital Books by Early Summer - WSJ.com - 2 views

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    Google plans to begin selling digital books in late June or July, aiming to let users access books from a broad range of sites using multiple devices." />
Derik Dupont

Video: Sports Illustrated Shows Off Google-Ready Digital Magazine | Peter Kafka | Media... - 0 views

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    Sports Illustrated hasn't come to Apple's iPad yet, but the publisher is already showing off a new version of its future: A digital magazine designed with Google in mind. Here's the demo that Editor Terry McDonell gave at Google's I/O developer conference today.
Allison Hughes

The Fight Over the Future of Digital Books - 0 views

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    The Authors Guild filed suit against five universities and the digital tower, called HathiTrust, that those universities created to preserve and make available to students and faculty scans of books from their collections.
Derik Dupont

Google digital book ambitions hinge on settlement - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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    Google's plan to add millions of books to digital library riding on new settlement
Derik Dupont

Why Murdoch Can Afford to Leave Google for Bing - Advertising Age - Digital - 0 views

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    Web traffic only gets publishers so far in their quest for digital ad dollars. After a certain point, actually, traffic may not even matter.
Derik Dupont

MediaPost Publications McClatchy Launches Digital Papers on the Kindle 11/23/2009 - 0 views

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    McClatchy Launches Digital Papers on the Kindle - 11/23/2009
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