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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Natalie Barnes

Natalie Barnes

BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » The Absent Silence - 5 views

  • how Google gets and handles its information is an industrial secret
  • But a great corporation, even one sworn to do no evil, makes no such bargain with the public. There is no reciprocity. Trust is not mutual. It’s understood that the public interest, if considered at all, comes second to the interests of the corporation — profit, growth, and power. So the corporation can and will keep its secrets, even though what it is dealing in is information, even when its business is making knowledge accessible, open, free — the very opposite of keeping secrets.
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    Ursula K. LeGuin is disturbed by Google's keeping secrets about information
Natalie Barnes

Publishr: Declaration of rights for the author - 0 views

  • rights hoarding is as damaging as market hoarding in any other business. His solution is a three-year renewal contract
  • but since the Publishng project exists more in the world of R&D, I’d like to suggest something even more shocking: Think licensing. Not selling.
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    Brian Joseph Davis suggests a new style of author contract.
Natalie Barnes

Slate Launches Interactive YA Serial - 0 views

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    Tapping into teen trends--vampires and the push towards interactivity--novelists Laura Moser and Lauren Mechling have launched a YA serial on Slate.com with a parallel online world where their characters update their Facebook pages, tweet, and post videos on YouTube.
Natalie Barnes

Watch a trailer for "It's a Book" - 0 views

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    Apparently ebooks and other electronic devices so dominate the world of children that there's a need for a children's book designed to explain what a print book isn't.
Natalie Barnes

Amazon.com: The Book in the Renaissance (9780300110098): Prof. Andrew Pettegree: Books - 0 views

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      free ebook sample on bn.com
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