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Paul Riccardi

F+W Partners with Google - Sales and Marketing @ FolioMag.com - 0 views

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Google sales e-commerce

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  • Paul Riccardi on 01 Mar 09
     
    Media company strikes new deal with Google to help boost e-commerce.
arnie Grossblatt

Library Inc. - - 2 views

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libraries education books publishers e-books

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  • Yet libraries, the intellectual heart of universities, have become perhaps the most commercialized academic area within universities, with troubling implications for the future of higher education.
  • Through innocuous incremental stages, academic libraries have reached a point where they are now guided largely by the mores of commerce, not academe.
  • Over the last decade, however, as the number and cost of journals have soared, most libraries have decided to forgo purchasing hard copies. The shift from owning a journal to merely providing access to its digital incarnation has, of course, saved some money. But those savings come in tandem with detrimental changes both to the content of library collections and the ways those collections are used.
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  • According to both the professional literature and information-vending companies' usability studies, a library's chief task is to meet the information needs of its patrons
  • For university libraries, retrieving what is known should be only the beginning. They are laboratories of the mind, unique places where questions that have never before been asked can be formulated and answered; they are centers of teaching where patrons can learn about the organization and the production of knowledge
  • or universities, the libraries' experience is a cautionary tale. Commercial practices, technologies, and innovations often seem to benefit and support the academic mission of universities. But commercial innovations are not value-free, and it has proven very difficult for libraries to embrace some components while rejecting others.
  • arnie Grossblatt on 04 Nov 10
     
    Interesting, if a bit unbalanced, about the corruption of university libraries by commercial publishers and the pressure of "good enough" information in a Googlized world
Derik Dupont

Washington Post, Amazon.com link up for book sale experiment - 0 views

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Amazon The Washington Post Books E-Commerce Newspapers

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  • Derik Dupont on 30 Nov 09
     
    News, profiles and commentary on Seattle technology startups, Microsoft, Amazon.com, gadgets, PCs, software, venture capital and Internet services.
Allison Begezda

Cathedral Rock Publishing's "Book IS The Store" Application Provides e-Commerce Functio... - 0 views

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  • Allison Begezda on 01 Jul 11
     
    Cathedral Rock Publishing's new "Book IS the Store" application is gaining traction with book publishers and authors looking to continue communicating with existing readers and make them aware of compatible products and services. The company is currently in talks with a well known rock and roll musician who is looking to reintroduce his substantial catalog to a new MultiMedia eBook generation.
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