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centuries ago, John Locke agreed that we shouldn't base our freedom to
read books on the proclaimed good offices of the business itself. "Books
seem to me to be pestilent things," he wrote in 1704, "and infect all
that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers,
binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have
universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind, that they have a way
of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of
society, and that general fairness that cements mankind."
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Emory University Saves Rushdie's Digital Data - 0 views
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Challenges, as well as opportunities, for curation in the digital age.
News: The E-Reader Effect - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views
When Data Disappears - 0 views
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LAST spring, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas acquired the papers of Bruce Sterling, a renowned science fiction writer and futurist. But not a single floppy disk or CD-ROM was included among his notes and manuscripts. When pressed to explain why, the prophet of high-tech said digital preservation was doomed to fail.
The Authors Guild - Authors Guild, Australian Society of Authors, Quebec Writers Union ... - 3 views
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"These aren't orphaned books, they're abducted books."
The Long Goodbye? The Book Business and its Woes - 0 views
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Book publishers have always predicted that the end was nigh. When it does come they will have only themselves to blame.
if:book: saving scholarly publishing and saving civilization - 0 views
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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
Open Access Voted Down at Maryland « The Scholarly Kitchen - 0 views
UM Library: Agreement With Amazon Will Make U-M Digital Books Widely Available - 0 views
Disappearing Ink? - The George Washington University - 2 views
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Kalb Report panelists' take on the decline of print newspapers and the future of newspaper publishing; focusing on the content and keeping its quality high so that when the eventual medium of delivery is figured out it'll be worth something to the consumer.
USA Today tests online edition at colleges | AP | 11/16/2009 - 0 views
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Penn State, Indiana and Missouri are the first schools to participate in a USA Today initiative meant to test how students respond to electronic versions of printed newspapers.
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