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Major magazines and newspapers are nowhere near as likely to gush about the iPad as the owners of major magazines and newspapers.

Amazon announces that 11,000 libraries are now set for loaning Kindle e-books to patrons. How much of library budgets will go to support a reading format that only the relatively well-off can use?

Interesting look at e-book copyright issues. (Or, why you can't have my e-book)

The number of sales of the Steve Jobs biography will be comparatively small for the iBookstore. Publishers and analysts say the iBookstore is still relatively unknown to the general public, especially compared to all the other apps on an Apple screen.

"The Web means that publishing anywhere means publishing everywhere, thus subjecting authors and publishers to litigation in pro-plaintiff jurisdictions"

While the newspaper industry crumbles, NPR is still going strong. What's the secret to their success? A hybrid of old and new media.

Likelihood of open access being favored by the new administration.

See podcast entitled "The OA Argument is Won", by David Prosser, Executive Director of SPARC Europe, February 4, 2008. Podcast | 8.1MB.

From the February SPARC Open Access Newsletter, by Peter Suber Every research funding agency should have an OA policy, many already do, and most are probably thinking about it.  Here's a guide to the major decisions which come up in framing a new policy, reviewing an older one, or thinking about policies elsewhere.  Peter Suber starts with the choice-points facing funding agencies (1-12), and then look briefly at the choice-points which only arise for universities (13-18).  He offers a recommendation for each. 

This upsets me so much.

Why? I know the magazine business is not doing so well, but Conde Nast is still pretty well off. The magazines they're cutting already have similar audiences among other Conde Nast publications: Gourmet has Bon Appetit, Modern Bride has Brides. Makes you think whether they'll cut Details in favor of GQ or Lucky for Allure, etc.

A ringtone is not a public performance.

Condé Nast and Adobe are building a digital version of Wired magazine for electronic reading devices, as publishers struggle to render magazines on e-readers." />

Looking at the Google Books decision as an opportunity.

Barnes and Noble offers plenty of newspaper subscriptions for the Nook to fine publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times, but if you are looking for a way to turn your Nook into a news reader for free, here's how.

FOR decades, even after it was renamed and relocated from its original home at Radcliffe, the Columbia Publishing Course seemed unchanging, a genteel summer tradition in the book business, a white-glove six-week course in which ambitious college graduates were educated in the time-honored basics of book editing, sales, cover design and publicity. Not this summer.

American Association of Advancement for Science wants to call out politicians and NGOs that intimidate climate scientists from publishing their research in journals or giving it to the public.

You may already know about it, but I wanted to share it with cohort 9. --Lillian