In Praise of Copying, CC-licensed book from Harvard Uni Press - Boing Boing - 0 views
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Although generosity is a wonderful thing, this isn't especially intended as a utopian gesture towards a world in which everything is free. It's recognition of the way in which copies of texts circulate today, a circulation in which the physical object known as the book that is for sale in the marketplace has an important but hardly exclusive role. A PDF of a book is not an illegitimate copy of a legitimate original but participates in other kinds of circulation that have long flourished around the book-commodity: the library book; the photocopy or hand-written copy; the book browsed, borrowed or shared.
Behind the Eye: Upgrading iTunes Library to DRM Free is Not So Easy : Thu, 05... - 0 views
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Something from the music industry. Many of you may have heard about iTunes getting the labels to agree to DRM-free music in exchange for a new princing structure. But things are not going so smoothly in upgrading to DRM-free music. Looks like iTunes could use a solid analysis of its system architecture to see where the bottleneck is.
New Adobe software protects copyrights on eBooks - 0 views
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"We know digital book customers want a broad selection of content, a choice of reading platforms and devices and the option to get their eBook from their favorite retailer, local public library or directly from the publisher," said Paul Weiskopf, senior vice president, Corporate Development at Adobe. "Adobe Content Server 4 enables the publishing industry to meet all these needs for eBook customers while, at the same time, protecting valuable copyrights."
Getting Google to notice your ebook - 0 views
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but Google eBookstore suddenly gives booksellers a reason to at least wade into SEO.
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But what about new books and ebooks? How does Google determine which new titles, and the more than 15 million books that have been scanned, float to the top of its search results pages: in the web search box and in the ebookstore. The challenge, for Gray and other Google engineers on the Books project, is that the best known component of Google's algorithm for determining the the value of a web resource -- the number of links to it by others -- does not apply to books and ebooks. Although it is possible to link to a selection in certain books on Google Books (here's a hyperlink into the aforementioned Galbraith title) people don't generally create links to the contents of a book or ebook. So linking is not a reliable indicator of quality.
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One strategy that Google employs is to tap into the book industry's "rich tradition of metadata.
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Google's Next Stop May Be in Congress - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Advocates of open access to orphan works cheered the rejection of the settlement, saying it could pave the way for legislation that would let anyone — not just Google — use the books..
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“If Congress can wake up to the importance of this issue, there’s a good chance they will pass orphan books legislation, and they will do so in the interest of the general public, not favoring any enterprise,” said Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University Library
A Digital Library Better Than Google's - 0 views
Interview with Tim O'Reilly - 2 views
British Libraries Push Back - Inside Higher Ed - 2 views
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