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Heather Walrath

5 Things to Learn From Amazon's Latest PR Disaster - 4 views

www.pcworld.com/...mazons_latest_pr_disaster.html

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  • Heather Walrath on 12 Nov 10
     
    An interesting PCWorld analysis about this week's Amazon book controversy.
Lia Carroll-Hackett

The Undesigned Web - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...65458

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  • Lia Carroll-Hackett on 06 Nov 10
     
    "It's that separability of design and text that has led to the third wave of the web, in which readers (or what some would call end-users) are in control of how the content they are reading looks. And, as it turns out, many of those readers like their designs to be as minimal as possible."
arnie Grossblatt

Library Inc. - - 2 views

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 04 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • Through innocuous incremental stages, academic libraries have reached a point where they are now guided largely by the mores of commerce, not academe.
  • 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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  • According to both the professional literature and information-vending companies' usability studies, a library's chief task is to meet the information needs of its patrons
  • For university libraries, retrieving what is known should be only the beginning. They are laboratories of the mind, unique places where questions that have never before been asked can be formulated and answered; they are centers of teaching where patrons can learn about the organization and the production of knowledge
  • or universities, the libraries' experience is a cautionary tale. Commercial practices, technologies, and innovations often seem to benefit and support the academic mission of universities. But commercial innovations are not value-free, and it has proven very difficult for libraries to embrace some components while rejecting others.
  • arnie Grossblatt on 04 Nov 10
     
    Interesting, if a bit unbalanced, about the corruption of university libraries by commercial publishers and the pressure of "good enough" information in a Googlized world
Ryan Holman

National Enquirer publisher to file for Chapter 11 - 2 views

www.msnbc.msn.com/...us_news

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  • Ryan Holman on 01 Nov 10
     
    Hm.
Natalie Barnes

BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » The Absent Silence - 5 views

blog.bookviewcafe.com/...the-absent-silence-2

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shared by Natalie Barnes on 30 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • Natalie Barnes on 30 Oct 10
     
    Ursula K. LeGuin is disturbed by Google's keeping secrets about information
Sarah Weathers

The $105 Fix That Could Protect You From Copyright-Troll Lawsuits | Threat Level | Wire... - 0 views

www.wired.com/...dmca-righthaven-loophole

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  • Sarah Weathers on 27 Oct 10
     
    This fits in neatly with our recent lecture on copyright, showing how an imperfect system can be exploited by companies looking to profit.
Liz Rich

Ebook restrictions leave libraries facing virtual lockout | Books | The Guardian - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...libraries-ebook-restrictions

shared by Liz Rich on 26 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Publishers Association (PA)
  • just announced a clampdown, informing libraries they may have to stop allowing users to download ebooks remotely and instead require them to come to the library premises, just as they do to get traditional print books – arguably defeating the object of the e-reading concept.
  • Liz Rich on 26 Oct 10
     
    Another example of how DRM and ebooks are broken...
arnie Grossblatt

In Praise of Copying, CC-licensed book from Harvard Uni Press - Boing Boing - 0 views

www.boingboing.net/...in-praise-of-copying.html

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 23 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Although generosity is a wonderful thing, this isn't especially intended as a utopian gesture towards a world in which everything is free. It's recognition of the way in which copies of texts circulate today, a circulation in which the physical object known as the book that is for sale in the marketplace has an important but hardly exclusive role. A PDF of a book is not an illegitimate copy of a legitimate original but participates in other kinds of circulation that have long flourished around the book-commodity: the library book; the photocopy or hand-written copy; the book browsed, borrowed or shared.
arnie Grossblatt

In Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...20textbooks.html

textbooks e-publishing print education pricing

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 20 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Though the world of print is receding before a tide of digital books, blogs and other Web sites, a generation of college students weaned on technology appears to be holding fast to traditional textbooks.
  • According to the National Association of College Stores, digital books make up just under 3 percent of textbook sales, although the association expects that share to grow to 10 percent to 15 percent by 2012 as more titles are made available as e-books.
  • three-quarters of the students surveyed said they still preferred a bound book to a digital version.
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  • The expense of college textbooks, which is estimated to have risen four times the inflation rate in recent years, has become such a concern that some politicians are taking up the cause.
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