Advocates of open access to orphan works cheered the rejection of the settlement, saying it could pave the way for legislation that would let anyone — not just Google — use the books..
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Could Pirates Be Your Friends? - 1 views
News: The E-Reader Effect - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views
Google's Next Stop May Be in Congress - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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“If Congress can wake up to the importance of this issue, there’s a good chance they will pass orphan books legislation, and they will do so in the interest of the general public, not favoring any enterprise,” said Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University Library
A Limit on Lending E-Books - 3 views
How Google's New Hatred of "Content Farms" Could Rearrange the Media Business - 0 views
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"A broad definition would burst the content farm media bubble - there are far more news sites than consumers could possibly need - which has been growing the last few years. By the same token, such a move would leave legit news sites - such as the Times - riding higher in the rankings. Google could, in other words, kill off much of the competition that has vexed traditional media on the web in a single blow."
New Media Dreams Are the Old Delusions of Marketing - 0 views
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An interesting long tail analysis of blog market share.
Curation is the new creation - 0 views
Startup Gives Digital Textbooks the Ol' College Try | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views
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Despite their promise, digital textbooks haven’t taken off for two big reasons: ease of use and price.
A New Take on the Coffee Table Book - 0 views
The Network Neutrality Debate: It All Depends on What You Fear - 0 views
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"How do you think they're going to get to customers? Through a broadband pipe. Cable companies have them. We have them. Now what they would like to do is use my pipes free, but I ain't going to let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it. So there's going to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they're using. Why should they be allowed to use my pipes? "The Internet can't be free in that sense, because we and the cable companies have made an investment and for a Google or Yahoo! or Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes [for] free is nuts!" - Edward Whitacre, Jr., CEO of the telephone company SBC (commenting on Google in 2005)
Seth's Blog: Moving on - 0 views
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My audience does things like buy five or ten copies at a time and distribute them to friends and co-workers. They (you) forward blog posts and PDFs. They join online discussion forums. None of these things are supported by the core of the current corporate publishing model.
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The author/publisher relationship in the digital age.
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