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arnie Grossblatt

Continuous publishing through Live Editions - Tools of Change for Publishing - 1 views

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    How do you keep a print book relevant in a rapidly changing technology domain?  Continuous publishing is one possibility, supported in O'Reilly Press' Live Editions.   See the comments for some interesting discussion with the authors of the first Live Edition book.
Derik Dupont

CBC News - Money - U.S. printer to swallow former Quebecor World - 0 views

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    World Color Press Inc., the Montreal-based printing giant formerly known as Quebecor World, has agreed to be taken over by Quad/Graphics Inc. in order to create a combined company with 30,000 employees.
Derik Dupont

Apple: One Million iPads Sold in 28 Days | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

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    Apple has sold one million iPads just four weeks. Writing in an Apple press release, Steve Jobs compares this to the 74 days it took to achieve this
Derik Dupont

New York Times to Begin Website Charges in January - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    The New York Times will begin charging for access to articles on its website in January, Bill Keller, executive editor of the newspaper, said at a dinner for the Foreign Press Association. " />
Derik Dupont

New Media, Old Media | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) - 1 views

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    The Lead Teaser: The stories and issues that gain traction in social media differ substantially from those that lead in the mainstream press. But they also differ greatly from each other. Across a year-long study of blogs, Twitter and YouTube,
Debbie Bezanson

Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses - 0 views

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    A Report of the AAUP Task Force on Economic Models for Scholarly Publishing
Thelisha Woods

The AP's Desperate Attempt To Outlaw Search Engine Links : RushPRnews - Newswire & Pres... - 0 views

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    An AP win could kill "fair use" and change the Internet as we know it. NEW YORK (RPRN) 04/07/09-
arnie Grossblatt

if:book: saving scholarly publishing and saving civilization - 0 views

  • Michael Jensen, the always-ahead-of-the-curve Director of the National Academies Press gave a stunningly original speech at the recent AAUP (American Association of University Presses) which, in his words, "allowed me to talk about the two issues that matter most to me: saving scholarly publishing, and saving civilization. In 16 minutes."
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    Our own Michael Jensen and his more recent presentation at AAUP is discussed
Derik Dupont

Google Lets You Custom-Print Millions of Public Domain Books | Epicenter | Wired.com - 0 views

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    What's hot off the presses come Thursday? Any one of the more than 2 million books old enough to fall out of copyright into the public domain. Over the
Derik Dupont

If The WSJ.com Says Goodbye To Google, It Will Also Say Goodbye To 25 Percent Of Its Tr... - 1 views

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    Whenever Rupert Murdoch goes back to his home country of Australia, he loosens up and says things to the press (usually his own ...
Michael Pogachar

7% of Canadians buy both print and electronic books - 1 views

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    Report says 86% of Canadians purchase print formats and 19% buy electronic formats, while only 7% buy both.
Megan Selva

The Machine That Made Us - 0 views

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    Documentary from the BBC, hosted by Stephen Fry, about the Gutenberg press.
arnie Grossblatt

The royalty math: print, wholesale model, agency model - The Shatzkin Files - 3 views

  • While we’re in a time where digitizing for epub is an extra step, not a simple alternative output of an XML-based pre-press process, the ebook seems freighted with extra costs
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    Good review of the costs and royalties for books in different formats.
arnie Grossblatt

In Praise of Copying, CC-licensed book from Harvard Uni Press - Boing Boing - 0 views

  • 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.
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