Is Print Dead? (Infographic) - 2 views
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arnie Grossblatt on 17 Sep 10Some stats on the state of print.
that's what you'll get.
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Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars - 1 views
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and that's what you deserve.
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you need reliable metadata about dates and categories, which is why it's so disappointing that the book search's metadata are a train wreck: a mishmash wrapped in a muddle wrapped in a mess.
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Here, too, Google has blamed the errors on the libraries and publishers who provided the books. But the libraries can't be responsible for books mislabeled as Health and Fitness and Antiques and Collectibles, for the simple reason that those categories are drawn from the Book Industry Standards and Communications codes, which are used by the publishers to tell booksellers where to put books on the shelves, not from any of the classification systems used by libraries.
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Powerful criticism of GBS and its mishandling of metadata.
PLoS Medicine: The Haunting of Medical Journals: How Ghostwriting Sold "HRT" - 1 views
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Troubling data on how Big Pharma corrupts STM publishing.
Net Neutrality Talks Are a Struggle for What We Already Have - 2 views
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Seems like it should be a simple issue, but complications are growing and the threat to to the Internet as we know it is on the rise.
Will the Book Survive Generation Text? - 1 views
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This shift, of course, plays into the problem, since any shrewd publishing type can see how the paper book's demise might make it easier to digitally trim, abridge, and repackage texts in more "appealing" forms than their benighted authors envisaged.
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A useful text with which to muse on this subject is Robert Darnton's The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future (PublicAffairs, 2009).
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A reflection on threats to sustained, immersive reading and the culture that produces it.
The Oxford English Dictionary Definitions of 'Print' And 'Digital' | Epicente... - 0 views
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Speculation that the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary will be digital only.
The royalty math: print, wholesale model, agency model - The Shatzkin Files - 3 views
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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.
Test-driving Apple Pages with ePub export - 3 views
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The creation EPUB books just got a lot easier.
A New Take on the "Pocket Reference" -- Public Beta of new O'Reilly Mobile HTML App - O... - 1 views
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Interesting view of adapting reference publications to mobile platforms. Should be on interest to students in PSPB 255!
June E-Sales Soften - If You Call Double "Soft" | Publishing In the 21st Century - 0 views
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Latest data on sales of ebooks.
Debate Over P vs. NP Proof Highlights Web Collaboration - 1 views
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Don't let the math stop you from reading this story about the role of web-mediated collaboration. This is Gutenberg 2.0.
As E-Books Gain, Barnes and Noble Tries to Stay Ahead - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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How the rise of ebook sales is changing the game for book stores, particularly Barnes & Noble.
Will Amazon's Kindle catch fire in China? - 0 views
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And for readers under the age of 29, the number of Chinese reading e-books is almost 1 in 2.
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Amazing numbers from China. 50% of the population under 29 read e-books (generally on cell phones)
Books of the world. Stand up and be counted! - 0 views
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Google counts the number of books in the world, and along the way has to decide what counts as a book.
Hard times for traditional books as China's digital publishing industry grows - Books, ... - 2 views
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And an astonishing 91 per cent of the 20,000 people polled in the survey said they would now not bother to buy printed books if they could find a digital version.
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