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Jennifer Parsons

A "print" format limit in a MARC-based catalog | Bibliographic Wilderness - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Parsons on 06 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • What this blog post is about: How do you figure out if a bib is “print” or not from a MARC record?
  • The problem is that the origins of AACR2-MARC sort of assume print as a default, there’s no leader bytes or 007 or 008 code for ‘print’, print is sort of the absence of anything else.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 06 Dec 12
     
    The burgeoning presence of ebooks on library catalogs is producing an unexpected problem-- what if the patron wants a print version of a book as opposed to an ebook version? How do you tease that out of MARC? RDA's GMD appears to be helpful, but not a useful as the Leader, 007, or 008 fields.
Scott Peterson

This Graph Is Disastrous for Print and Great for Facebook-or the Opposite! - 1 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 31 May 12
     
    The chart in this article shows an interesting anomaly. Initially it appears that print ads only take up a small amount of a user's attention, yet the money spent on those ads is considerably more than all other media. However, another chart shows the revenue per user for newspapers is almost 10 times that of Google and 50-100 times that of several websites, so there's a convincing argument that advertisers still see print as a viable medium.
Justin Hopkins

Speaking of 3D printers... The World's First 3D-Printed Gun - Slashdot - 0 views

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shared by Justin Hopkins on 27 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Justin Hopkins on 27 Jul 12
     
    Normally I'd link to the article itself but the comments on the slashdot page are worth a read. "Will they ban 3D printers?" "Knowing our congress they'll try to ban teaching Geometry in schools... you can't print illegal shapes if you don't know shapes!" Sad but true. These are really the kinds of discussions that we will have to have as a society in the very near term. Libraries should be at the forefront of this discussion - they've always had to fight to protects peoples rights to access information. If they have public access 3D printers it's only a matter of time before the government comes knocking wanting to see the shape files that their patrons have been printing just like they do with circulation records and internet history.
Scott Peterson

HP MagCloud - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 02 Aug 13
     
    HP is offering a service to create magazines and other serial publications in the "cloud." What is interesting is both print and digital publishing is offered. Some of the publications listed do use an ISSN number, but it looks like it's up to the author to obtain it. Print options include worldwide shipping and direct mail, while it looks like the digital version requires a MagCloud account to read the material, although it is available as a downloadable PDF. What I find most interesting is how this service effectively replaces a traditional publisher altogether, although some of the features a publisher can offer--such as marketing and industry contacts, are missing. Digital prices to the consumer are substantially less than print, but I can't find anything about pricing to the user without signing up for an account.
adrienne_mobius

Newsweek magazine to stop printing, go all-digital - Yahoo! News - 1 views

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shared by adrienne_mobius on 18 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 18 Oct 12
     
    Print dies: Newsweek to go all-digital. The magazine will be subscription-based and available on e-readers.
Scott Peterson

Will Gutenberg laugh last? - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 11 Jan 13
     
    An article I have some mixed feelings about, seeming a little too much of a cheering section for print books. However, some good points have been made, that eBooks have begin some declines in sales and e-readers and tablets may not be well suited for all reading applications, ultimately complementing print books the same as audio books rather than replacing them.
Donna Bacon

New Partnership of Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Will Promote Digital Textbooks - chroni... - 5 views

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  • Donna Bacon on 01 May 12
     
    College students still don't want e-textbooks!  Wonder if this partnership will help students change their minds.....
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  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    Are you serious? They LOVE e-textbooks... you can pirate them instead of spending $160 on a dead tree...
  • Donna Bacon on 02 May 12
     
    Did you read the article???? It says e-textbooks are just not taking off....they seem to like the dead trees....
  • Sharla Lair on 02 May 12
     
    While getting my MLIS, I was often given the option of buying the textbook or the e-textbook. The highest priority for me was $$$$$. eTextbooks often cost more than the el cheapos in the bookstore, AND you don't even get to keep the e version. I was usually given access to the etextbook for only 4 months. To remedy this issue all together I got my books through MOBIUS! That way I didn't have to pay anything and I didn't have to store the book after the semester was over. For students to adopt e-texts, the model has to be changed. Make them pay a flat fee with their tuition. Call it a library fee or information fee. Then give them access to the required texts while they are enrolled in a course at no additional cost. Make the texts collaborative so digital notes can be taken perhaps Diigo style so they can be shared and commented on. There is a cool tool called Citelighter http://www.citelighter.com/. Citelighter is a virtual highlighter that automates the research and paper writing process. It allows the user to find and capture unique facts online, automatically generate citations, and write better quality papers in less time. They just launched a pro version in a partnership with Cengage. Citelighter Pro users are able to add to their experience with materials from Cengage Learning. If you make it affordable, accessible, and social, college students will dig it!
  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    @donna I skimmed it. They are cheaper in some cases than the book new - while buying a used book ten selling it back is cheaper in the long run. Also currently ebooks don't have any really compelling features over the paper ones. Still, I'm saying that the point of view that they "aren't taking off" just means the companies selling them haven't figured out how to make money off of them. I know from talking to friends that ebooks are fairly popular, but when people pirate them these companies can't track them. On the whole I agree with Sharla - if they made the product better and keep it affordable they will see sales. If I were going to college today I'd pirate every book I need. No way am I carrying all those heavy things, but I can't afford to pay for them. It's like with music and movies. I quit pirating that stuff because Netflix/Hulu/Spotify got good and cheap. If the ebooks improve, people will pay for the same reason - it's easier.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 02 May 12
     
    I think the reason why the print versions are preferred is here: ""Most e-textbooks are slightly glorified PDF's of the print version, although that's changing," [a National College Stores Association rep] said. "Digital e-books sell for about 60 percent of the cost of a new printed copy. Since students can go to their college store and rent a print copy for between 33 and 55 percent of the cost of a new book, the e-book really needs to have more functionality to make the higher price worth their while."" Add to that what Sharla pointed out-- you can't even keep the ebooks because you're really just leasing them-- and it's no wonder nobody's interested. It's a shame, too, because I'd love to be able to do things like textbook exercises in an ebook on a tablet, or make notes in the electronic text to export and read later.
Scott Peterson

Adult fiction ebooks outsold hardcovers in 2011: survey - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 19 Jul 12
     
    This probably isn't the tipping point for ebooks over print--but is very close to it. Ebooks outsold adult hardcover fiction for the first time in 2011, nearly tripling their marketshare to 15%. However, the overall book market declined by 2.5% and the total revenue of ebooks (2 billion) was still much less than that of all print books (11.1 billion).
Scott Peterson

5 First Impressions of 3D Printing - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 06 Sep 13
     
    With 3D printing becoming more popular it' worthwhile to consider the perspective of someone who is encountering one for the first time.
adrienne_mobius

Book printed in ink that vanishes after two months - Yahoo! Small Business Advisor - 4 views

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  • adrienne_mobius on 25 Jul 12
     
    Weird.
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  • Scott Peterson on 26 Jul 12
     
    Not really, sounds like they're copying the idea from eBooks about allowing access for only a short time.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 27 Jul 12
     
    I think Scott has it on the nose. It's depressing that not even print format can save us from temporary content!
  • Justin Hopkins on 27 Jul 12
     
    I think this highlights the ridiculousness of the ebook issue, but I actually think it's a great idea as it's being presented. "The book that cannot wait" just seems cool to me. Probably not as cool as the book of Snoop Dogg lyrics made out of rolling papers but hey - we can't all be as cool as the D-O-Double-G.
Justin Hopkins

Shareable: Everyone's a Maker at this Library Maker Space - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 26 Jul 12
     
    An article about a Maker Space at the Westport, Connecticut library, which includes a 3D printing project. 3-D printing is one of the waves of the future and I know the MST library looked at one; hosting the Maker Space in the middle of the library is a good way to promote it but I wonder if the noise and activity will end up distracting to the other patrons.
  • Justin Hopkins on 27 Jul 12
     
    This is epic. Someday soon libraries will be repositories of genetic information and in addition to 3D printers they will have biological printers. Even though libraries lending seeds is fairly new, in the not so distant future that function will be obsolete as patrons are able to come into the library and print the genetic materials needed to grow any plant species on record.
adrienne_mobius

BIBLIOFUTURE: Your friendly logger says, "Buy the real thing - real books printed on re... - 0 views

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  • adrienne_mobius on 14 Jun 12
     
    In 2000 Microsoft made a series of predictions about ebooks over the following 20 years. The prediction for 2012 includes an ad campaign by the logging industry that says, "Buy the real thing - real books printed on real paper.
adrienne_mobius

Books are competing for shelf space - KansasCity.com - 2 views

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shared by adrienne_mobius on 22 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 22 Jun 12
     
    Are print books becoming just another decorative object?
  • Jennifer Parsons on 26 Jun 12
     
    I wonder if that's a moot point; books have been considered art objects for a long time. Maybe with the shift to electronic text, they'll just be seen as more so.
adrienne_mobius

Print On Demand: Major Announcement Could Change How You Buy Books - 1 views

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print on demand self publishing espresso book machine pod

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  • adrienne_mobius on 17 Sep 12
     
    "The makers of the POD Espresso Book Machine currently installed in fewer than a hundred bookstores nationwide, have announced new partnerships with Eastman Kodak and ReaderLink Distribution Services. Under the arrangement, the company's POD technology will be made available to retailers who have Kodak Picture Kiosks, currently installed in 105,000 locations according to Publishers Weekly, including drugstores and supermarkets. "
Scott Peterson

Books From Nowhere - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 06 Dec 12
     
    An article that addresses a problem which has come up before, namely "junk" books made from electronic files, in this case physical copies as opposed to eBooks, but with the same problems. Material in the text is missing, as well as the publisher and print date, edition, the notation about original language or any information about the author. Such information, separated from the original work, means that the context and in some cases documentation for the book are lost, which could harm research and preservation in the long run.
Scott Peterson

Disruptions: Your Brain on E-Books and Smartphone Apps - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 06 Dec 12
     
    The author talks about how using electronic devices can alter our accustomed behaviors, such as mistakenly swiping a finger when reading a printed newspaper expecting it to turn the page the same as if it were on a tablet. He then carries this over into an argument that the brain changes that cause this hasten the adoption rate for new technologies. Ultimately I disagree with this as it's only becoming habituated to an interface, and not something intrinsic with the medium itself.
Scott Peterson

Next Year's 3-D Printers Promise Big Things - Really Big Things - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 06 Dec 12
     
    Newer 3D printers coming on the market are much larger in size, able to "print" objects 2-3 feet in dimension, or about the size of a bicycle frame. Printers of these size would be something to consider for a Maker Space as they would unlikely be affordable to an individual and would require a community use to justify the cost.
Scott Peterson

Books aren't dead yet - 0 views

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shared by Scott Peterson on 29 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 29 Mar 13
     
    A somewhat hopeful article pointing out that the interest in e-book readers is leveling off while print continues, and that if anything things such as online self-publishing have helped as it reduces the risk for commercial publishers in recruiting new authors.
adrienne_mobius

The Myth and the Millennialism of "Disruptive Innovation" - 0 views

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shared by adrienne_mobius on 31 May 13 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 31 May 13
     
    "The death of the music industry. The death of newspapers. The death of print. The death of Hollywood. The death of books. The death of the Web. The death of RSS. The death of Microsoft. All predicted to be killed - suddenly or gradually or in the library with a candlestick - by some sort of "disruptive innovation."
Scott Peterson

Judge Says Fair Use Protects Universities in Book-Scanning Project - 0 views

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shared by Scott Peterson on 18 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 18 Oct 12
     
    A victory for fair use, with scanned materials that are used in the HathiTrust. The HathiTrust repository use materials scanned from the Google Books but he access is more restrictive, allowing full text searches only with the copyright holder's permission--but does allow full text for readers with print disabilities. A Federal judge ruled this is covered by fair use, while related lawsuits against Google continue.
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