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Reinventing the Book in the Age of the Web - O'Reilly Radar - 0 views

radar.oreilly.com/...nting-the-book-age-of-web.html publishing ebooks cultural
shared by Lisa Spiro on 29 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Lisa Spiro on 29 Apr 09
     
    Main point: the book needs to be re-engineered for the web, taking advantage of the network (cf IfBook) Interesting point: "As wikipedia has demonstrated, collaboration is easiest when documents are constructed using a modular architecture." Favorite comment: "(Incidentally, I hate the word "ebook". It's like calling a car a "gashorse".)"
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U.S. Opens Inquiry Into Google Books Deal - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...29google.html eresources_study mass_digitization GOOGLE technical publishing policy copyright
shared by Cynthia Gillespie on 29 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Cynthia Gillespie on 29 Apr 09
     
    The Justice department has opened up an inquiry into the antitrust implications of Google's settlement.
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Towards the Hybrid Library - 0 views

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shared by Lisa Spiro on 20 Apr 09 - Cached
  • My aim is to argue for the concept of the hybrid library as a logical follow on from current developments. Institutions should remain an important focus for digital library activities, and users in those institutions require the sort of integration of digital library services which the hybrid library promises.
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Views: Print or Byte? - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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shared by Lisa Spiro on 08 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Lisa Spiro on 08 Apr 09
     
    It's clear that the recession is accelerating the shift to digital publishing. "With the economy shaping up as it seems to be," one astute observer of trends in the university press world told me last summer, "we're going to see a 15 year leap in publishing in the next two years." And that was well before trillions of dollars started vanishing into the ether.
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The Research Library in the 21st Century - 0 views

www.lib.utexas.edu/symposium digital_libraries digital_scholarship future_library_services cultural print-to-digital
shared by Lisa Spiro on 06 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Lisa Spiro on 06 Apr 09
     
    "The idea behind the symposium was to begin shaping a strategy for the future of academic research libraries. We invited some of the best minds in the field and representatives from leading institutions to explore the future of the research library and new developments in scholarly communication." Cliff Lynhch, Lorcan Dempsey, Kevin Guthrie, etc
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Where's the Bailout for Publishing? - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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shared by Lisa Spiro on 06 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Lisa Spiro on 06 Apr 09
     
    Books are essential to American life, and if publishing perishes, Stephen L. Carter argues, democracy itself will soon follow.
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