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.
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World Book Night - 0 views
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Global initiative to share physical books.
The Machine That Made Us - 0 views
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Documentary from the BBC, hosted by Stephen Fry, about the Gutenberg press.
In Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks - 0 views
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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.
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three-quarters of the students surveyed said they still preferred a bound book to a digital version.
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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.
Social-networking sites share breaking news - CNN.com - 0 views
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We all know the power of social networking. And while the print news industry suffers, will social media affect online news as well?
Smaller damages sought in music case - The Boston Globe - 0 views
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Interesting take on the music piracy issue and a highlight of the punitive nature of the current laws.
Post Tech - Facebook shuts Beacon advertising program that shares info on online shopping - 0 views
LSE economists: file sharing isn't killing music industry, but copyright enforcement wi... - 0 views
HP TouchPad To Include Digital Publication for Discovering Apps - 1 views
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When HP's webOS-based TouchPad makes its debut on July 1, it will ship with a new way for users to discover various apps for the platform, webOS Pivot. Pivot is basically a digital publication designed to help users discover different types of apps and content and to give developers more exposure. Every month, HP says it will publish Pivot, and that it will "include visually driven editorial pieces, columns from notable guest writers sharing their perspectives on digital culture, feature stories focused on applications around specific topics, and in-depth reviews."
xkcd: Sharing - 5 views
HTML for Babies, Book Introduces Web Design Concepts to Babies - 0 views
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This is so cool! I'll buy it for my 9 month old nephew. Thx for sharing!
The New Presumption of Transparency - 0 views
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In the U.S., public figures have to prove that statements about them are false and made with malice -- but in Britain a statement that harms one's reputation is enough to justify a libel action. Defendants must prove that statements are true or "fair comment." This has a chilling effect on the reporting of damaging facts.
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"If information cannot be freely exchanged, if journalists must fear being sued over information reported in good faith on matters crucial to our defense, matters such as the financial networks supporting jihadist terror, then we cannot make sound security policy," former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy said at a recent conference on "libel lawfare." This is a useful term to describe lawsuits to suppress facts about radical Islam and terrorism.
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The Web means that publishing anywhere means publishing everywhere, thus subjecting authors and publishers to litigation in pro-plaintiff jurisdictions
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"The Web means that publishing anywhere means publishing everywhere, thus subjecting authors and publishers to litigation in pro-plaintiff jurisdictions"
Tech Firms Seek to Get Agencies on Board With Cloud Computing - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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Get ready for the coming battles over cloud computing and privacy and security
Media execs rocked by 15-year-old's blunt, blistering analysis : Ben Patterson : Yahoo!... - 0 views
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Really, this is breaking news to the industry? Kudos to the kid for telling it like it is, but are these companies really just hearing about this now? People don't like advertisements on a website constitutes breaking news? And people would prefer free stuff to stuff they have to pay for? Wait, why am I surprised that the heads of major media outlets are completely clueless as to what people actually want?
No Sharing Allowed: Amazon and book publishers' stupid attempts to curtail e-book lending. - 1 views
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Article from March that popped up on my radar now about how to handle lending e-books and first-sale-doctrine issues.
Will the E-Book Kill the Footnote? - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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OMG I'll share an article on this. So good! I loved it.
Findings Turns Your Ebook Highlights Into Shared Reading Libraries - 0 views
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Findings' creators, the folks at startup incubator Betaworks, refer to their creation as a "social commonplace book,"
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