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Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet Priority - 2 views

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Google net neutrality ethics

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Google buys way around net neutrality? This could be very bad for an open interenet

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On Covers - Tools of Change for Publishing - 1 views

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Books e-books design

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Cover design in the age of ebooks.

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In School Systems, Slow Progress for Open-Source Textbooks - 0 views

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publishing education textbooks pricing open source business model books publishers

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Textbook pricing continues to be an issue, and open source alternatives gain attention.

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Lines on Plagiarism Blur for Students in the Digital Age - 0 views

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Kickstartup - Successful fundraising with Kickstarter & the (re)making of Art Space Tok... - 0 views

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startup publishing business model design

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Financing a publishing project by crowdsourcing.

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Betting the House on HTML5 - 1 views

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publishers markup publishing HTML open standards Flash

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Andrew Wylie, Literary Agent, Plans E-Books - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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books e-books copyright e-book rights

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Reading in a Whole New Way - 1 views

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reading e-readers e-books books. Gutenberg priint

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Kevin Kelly on how screen reading is changing the act of reading and transforming readers.

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The Web Means the End of Forgetting - 0 views

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digital publishing social media privacy

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The Real Cost of College Textbooks - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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textbooks publishing ethics business model pricing open access

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Debate on the costs of college textbooks. I think we did a better job at last year's SPI.

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Amazon Says E-Books Now Top Hardcover Sales - 0 views

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ebooks Amazon business book sales

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Is this a tipping-point?

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Small Stores See Google as Ally in E-Book Market - 0 views

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publishers Google retail business model ebooks Amazon Apple

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Google closer to entering the book market as distributore and retailer.

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Profile of literary agent Andrew Wylie - 0 views

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copyright books publishers agents

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A literary agent's perspective on the book industry, its threats and some ideas about expanding copyright protections.

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With a Little Help: New York, Meet Silicon Valley - 3 views

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copyright drm publishers books standards interoperability

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Cory Doctorow on what publishers can learn from Silicon Valley.

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Terrible News: Court Says It's Okay To Remove Content From The Public Domain And Put It... - 4 views

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ethics publishing copyright public domain free speech

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What Is a Career in Publishing? Recruiting the Talent We Need for the 21st Ce... - 6 views

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publishing business model books

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This is few months old, but still a worthwhile read on the state of the job market and planning for a career in publishing.

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Unboxed - Yes, People Still Read, but Now It's Social - 0 views

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Comment on Nicholas Carr's new book "The Shallows" and argument that technology multi-tasking is dangerously affecting our ability for deep, reflective reading.

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U. of California Tries Just Saying No to Rising Journal Costs - Research - The Chronicl... - 1 views

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STM journals business model pricing libraries ethics

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Greedy publishers?

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Does the Internet Make You Smarter? - 0 views

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Clay Shirky and Nicolas Carr debate the effects of the Internet on cognitive abilities.

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Are your publishing skills ready for the ebook boom? | Guardian careers | guardian.co.uk - 1 views

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ebooks publishing education CMS markup jobs

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What this means is that you need to future proof your publishing career and make sure your software skills are ahead of the game.
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aining skills in mark-up languages such as HTML/XHTML and XML and being able to design and manipulate CSS (cascading style sheets, which are used to style text for web and digital pages) will increase your manoeuvrability in the job market.
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there is no substitute for formal training courses
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Getting in shape for a changing job market.

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