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Lin Pang

Amazon Enters Publishing: There's No Going Back - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...ublishing-theres-no-going-back

Amazon publishers e-book app

shared by Lin Pang on 26 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Lin Pang on 26 Oct 11
     
    An interesting discusion about whether Amazon will replace publishers. With the increasing digitization of books, writers will align with the big platforms such as Kindle or the Apple Store.
Adrian Melia

Amazon Just Beat Apple to the Classroom - 0 views

gizmodo.com/...st-beat-apple-to-the-classroom

technology Education tablets classroom

shared by Adrian Melia on 22 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Adrian Melia on 22 Oct 12
     
    Amazon announced its Whispercast technology to provide centralized control over content distribution, social media, password protection, and document sharing.
Deidre Witan

Amazon.com: The Oregon Trail: 40th Anniversary Edition: Video Games - 0 views

www.amazon.com/...B004Q4PE7U

t561 games video games

shared by Deidre Witan on 24 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Deidre Witan on 24 Sep 12
     
    It's a classic!
  • Cole Shaw on 24 Sep 12
     
    I loved that game! It taught me so much...
Ashley Lee

Stephen Covey's digital rights deal with Amazon startle New York publishers | Books | T... - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...tephen-covey-amazon-ebook-deal

ebook digital publishing

shared by Ashley Lee on 16 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Ashley Lee on 16 Dec 09
     
    the rise of the ebook
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet challenges 'deficient' Kindle Fire - GeekWire - 1 views

www.geekwire.com/...allenges-deficient-kindle-fire

technology tablet nook fire amazon

shared by Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 09 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 09 Nov 11
     
    Let the tablet price war begin!
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Teacher Training Should Start Before iPad Deployment -- THE Journal - 3 views

thejournal.com/...rt-before-ipad-deployment.aspx

iPad teacher training

shared by Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 10 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Bridget Binstock on 10 Nov 11
     
    Many of you have read my "rants" about buying iPads before the teacher's even know what to do with them. This article speaks to the need for Professional Development before full scale implementation.
Laura Stankiewicz

Adventures in Twitter fiction - Ted Talk - 3 views

This was interesting, Heidi! Thanks for sharing. I can't tell how I feel about the idea of "Twitter Fiction," but it is something I'd like to learn more about.

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started by Heidi Larson on 20 Oct 13 1 follow-up, last by Laura Stankiewicz on 20 Oct 13
Uche Amaechi

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: Youtube in the Amazon: Rural Peru's Transition to ... - 0 views

henryjenkins.org/...be_in_the_amazon_rural_pe.html

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  • Uche Amaechi on 05 Sep 09
     
    Bringing Wireless Infrastructure to small villages in Peru. Why and how?
  • Jennifer Hern on 12 Sep 09
     
    Jenny, you should check this one out...
Amanda Comperchio

Until 9/10: FREE e-book on social media - 2 views

forrester.typepad.com/groundswell

social technology

shared by Amanda Comperchio on 10 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Amanda Comperchio on 10 Sep 10
     
    The follow up book to "Groundswell" is being offered as a free download through Amazon until tomorrow. I thought those of you in this class may have an interest.
Devon Dickau

The End of the Textbook as We Know It - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 3 views

chronicle.com/...125044

higher education college students textbooks

shared by Devon Dickau on 26 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • For years observers have predicted a coming wave of e-textbooks. But so far it just hasn't happened. One explanation for the delay is that while music fans were eager to try a new, more portable form of entertainment, students tend to be more conservative when choosing required materials for their studies. For a real disruption in the textbook market, students may have to be forced to change.
  • saying that e-textbooks should be required reading and that colleges should be the ones charging for them
  • radical shift
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  • Here's the new plan: Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).
  • they're far cheaper to produce than printed texts
  • publishers could eliminate the used-book market and reduce incentives for students to illegally download copies as well
  • When students pay more for new textbooks than tuition in a year, then something's wrong
  • Tricky issues remain, though. What if a professor wrote the textbook assigned for his or her class? Is it ethical to force students to buy it, even at a reduced rate? And what if students feel they are better off on their own, where they have the option of sharing or borrowing a book at no cost?
  • In music, the Internet reduced album sales as more people bought only the individual songs they wanted. For textbooks, that may mean letting students (or brokers at colleges) buy only the chapters they want. Or only supplementary materials like instructional videos and interactive homework problems, all delivered online. And that really would be the end of the textbook as we know it.
  • P Parson on 31 Oct 10
     
    I would be for this. I could not believe a place so big on recycling (Harvard) murdered so many trees with the printing of course packs. I like this idea if you could get the material from other sources than just the school (say the author or publisher directly or something like Amazon). Otherwise, there is no opportunity for competition or bargaining.
Devon Dickau

BBC News - The rights and wrongs of digital books - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11693222

E-books copyright issues technology

shared by Devon Dickau on 22 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The latter part of 2010 may mark the point from which future historians date the transition to screen-based reading for literary fiction as well as reference works
  • However, even they are not yet willing to accept that the price of electronic texts is too high, and that readers will not pay the same for a bunch of bits as they will for a bound book, since the market knows that it costs less to send electrons over a network than it does to buy paper, make books out of it and ship the physical objects around the world
  • When you buy an digital copy to read on your e-book reader, phone or laptop all you get is the copyrighted bit, and what you pay for is a licence to have a copy or copies of the text.
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  • Amazon recently announced that it will let Kindle owners "lend" books, but only for two weeks and only once per title.
  • The idea of "intellectual property" deliberately conflates the two and allows politicians to pretend that laws about physical property should extend to digital downloads. We need to challenge this unjustifiable elision if we are to think seriously about copyright and business models in the age of electronics.
Ando Endano

The Barnes & Noble Nook reader to be revealed and available tomorrow for $259 - 0 views

www.crunchgear.com/...and-available-tomorrow-for-259

ubiquitous computing digital reader learning

shared by Ando Endano on 20 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Ando Endano on 20 Oct 09
     
    Barnes and Noble releases the Nook, which is a competitor to the Amazon Kindle. It has E-ink on the top, and a color screen below.
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