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in title, tags, annotations or urlNearly 1,000 additional O'Reilly and Microsoft Press ebooks now available in Kindle Store - Tools of Change for Publishing - 3 views
Your Privacy Online - What They Know - WSJ.com - 9 views
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A must-read series on online privacy by the Wall Street Journal. If you browse the web, if you write email, if you have an ISP you should know about this
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I know we've discussed in class how Google (and other entities) seems to know so much about us, but isn't it a bit naive to assume the opposite? We expose a piece of our private lives in every way: credit cards for example track where we go, where we eat, what we buy, and the like. Even if paying cash at places, we're signing up for list servs, blogs, campaigns, donating to charities that require contact information, filling out surveys. Given this, is it all that surprising that we are being "watched"? I don't think it's possible to function in today's society without exposing much of ourselves (when you want to pay cash somewhere, the bank knows when, where, what time of day you withdrew money), unless we change our names or deliver false information.
Library Inc. - - 2 views
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Yet libraries, the intellectual heart of universities, have become perhaps the most commercialized academic area within universities, with troubling implications for the future of higher education.
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Through innocuous incremental stages, academic libraries have reached a point where they are now guided largely by the mores of commerce, not academe.
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Over the last decade, however, as the number and cost of journals have soared, most libraries have decided to forgo purchasing hard copies. The shift from owning a journal to merely providing access to its digital incarnation has, of course, saved some money. But those savings come in tandem with detrimental changes both to the content of library collections and the ways those collections are used.
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Facebook Withdraws Changes in Data Use - 0 views
What If the Kindle Succeeds? | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 0 views
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If ebook readers succeed, will publishers be smarter than the music industry in the face of digitization and the web? Some guidelines on how publishers can avoid some of the mistakes of the music industry peers
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Thanks for posting this, Arnie. I've been watching the rise of the Kindle for a while. It popped up at various publishing conferences a few years back. As a reader, it does have some appealing qualities. But, the product is too expensive to go mainstream just yet, in my view. I'd be nervous to schlep a $400 device on international trips with multiple time zones/hotel stays. It's okay if I accidentally leave a paperback behind in a plane or forget it in my hotel room, but you'd have to be careful with a Kindle--it sort of changes my perception of reading materials when I'm traveling.
10 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2010 - 0 views
Lobster Press Pauses to Catch Up - 0 views
The book industry is gonna get Napstered if it forces Amazon to raise e-book prices. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine - 0 views
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Right now, the electronic-book market finds itself roughly in the same place the market for MP3s was in 1999, the year after the release of the first portable MP3 player.
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But that could change in a matter of months if the book industry insists on 1) jacking up the price of e-books and 2) withholding potential best-sellers from the e-book market.
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"Publishers are in denial about the economics of digital content,"
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Post-Medium Publishing - 0 views
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iTunes is more of a tollbooth
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much the same with digital books
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But though I can't predict specific winners, I can offer a recipe for recognizing them. When you see something that's taking advantage of new technology to give people something they want that they couldn't have before, you're probably looking at a winner. And when you see something that's merely reacting to new technology in an attempt to preserve some existing source of revenue, you're probably looking at a loser.
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Lost in the Cloud - 0 views
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But the most difficult challenge — both to grasp and to solve — of the cloud is its effect on our freedom to innovate.
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This freedom is at risk in the cloud, where the vendor of a platform has much more control over whether and how to let others write new software.
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And many software developers who once would have been writing whatever they wanted for PCs are simply developing less adventurous, less subversive, less game-changing code under the watchful eyes of Facebook and Apple.
The best report ever on media piracy | Felix Salmon | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com - 1 views
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he big forces driving media piracy in developing countries are real and powerful and will not be changed, no matter how many western politicians get on their moral high horses and insist that countries like India and China build a “culture of intellectual property.” But the irony is that if governments and corporations really wanted to build such a culture, then they would encourage companies to set their prices low enough that the populations of those countries could actually afford to buy music, movies, and software at the full legal retail price. It turns out that domestic companies are quite good at distributing media at low prices, and can build profitable businesses by doing that. But foreign companies have different incentives in the short term, and don’t do that.
Amazon Rewrites the Rules of Book Publishing - 3 views
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He pointed out, though, that the landscape was in some ways changing for the first time since Gutenberg invented the modern book nearly 600 years ago. “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader,” he said. “Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity.”
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