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if:book: saving scholarly publishing and saving civilization - 0 views

www.futureofthebook.org/...el_jensen_the_always-ahea.html Michael Jensen scholarly publishing sustainability publishing publishing ethics
shared by arnie Grossblatt on 21 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Michael Jensen, the always-ahead-of-the-curve Director of the National Academies Press gave a stunningly original speech at the recent AAUP (American Association of University Presses) which, in his words, "allowed me to talk about the two issues that matter most to me: saving scholarly publishing, and saving civilization. In 16 minutes."
  • arnie Grossblatt on 21 Jul 09
     
    Our own Michael Jensen and his more recent presentation at AAUP is discussed
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Lost in the Cloud - 0 views

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 20 Jul 09 - Cached
  • But the most difficult challenge — both to grasp and to solve — of the cloud is its effect on our freedom to innovate.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • arnie Grossblatt on 20 Jul 09
     
    Insuring that cloud computing doesn' lead to a loss of privacy and the ability to innovate.
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E-book readers check in to hotels | Crave - CNET - 0 views

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  • Thelisha Woods on 17 Jul 09
     
    Hotels in New York, Miami, and Turks & Caicos are now offering guests Sony Readers for loan. New York's storied Algonquin Hotel, meanwhile, already offers Amazon's Kindle.
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The book industry is gonna get Napstered if it forces Amazon to raise e-book prices. - ... - 0 views

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 17 Jul 09 - Cached
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • "Publishers are in denial about the economics of digital content,"
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  • Does the book industry want to join the digital flow, the way the TV industry has with Hulu and TV.com? Or by its obstruction does it intend to encourage the establishment of a Bookster?
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Doonesbury - Content Wants Respect - 0 views

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 17 Jul 09 - Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 17 Jul 09
     
    "content doesn't really want to be free"
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Amazon Faces Suit Over Kindle Cracks - WSJ.com - 0 views

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  • Kori Kamradt on 16 Jul 09
     
    Amazon has been sued by a user of its Kindle e-book reader over cracks in the screen that made the device inoperatble.
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Media execs rocked by 15-year-old's blunt, blistering analysis : Ben Patterson : Yahoo!... - 0 views

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shared by Paul Riccardi on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Paul Riccardi on 15 Jul 09
     
    Really, this is breaking news to the industry? Kudos to the kid for telling it like it is, but are these companies really just hearing about this now? People don't like advertisements on a website constitutes breaking news? And people would prefer free stuff to stuff they have to pay for? Wait, why am I surprised that the heads of major media outlets are completely clueless as to what people actually want?
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