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DRM on books - 0 views

www.digitaltrends.com/...ns-to-free-your-kindle-library DRM copyright open publishing
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  • Olivia Azar on 08 Dec 14
     
    5 reasons to eliminate DRM on books. This favors open knowledge.
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THE FUTURE OF THE BOOK - 11 views

www.buzzfeed.com/...the-future-is-never open access
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  • petrae77 on 30 Nov 14
     
    The year I graduated high school, the media was overrun with speculation about a new technology set to shake the foundation of the world. What was it? We weren't told, exactly. All we knew was that code name "IT" was so revolutionary that we would have to rebuild our cities from scratch.
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  • kristykim on 30 Nov 14
     
    Thank you for sharing. I also heard that many universities are getting rid of their printed textbooks and only using e-texbook due to high prices that students have to pay for their printed textbooks. They may order in the printed textbook, but majority of schools are going digital.
  • siyuwang on 04 Dec 14
     
    Thank you for sharing this resource. This reminds me of a news article I read before, which is "Apple Announces E-Book Store". According to that news article, Apple announced the create of iBook store in Apple's event in Jan 27 2010, hoping to reshape the e-book industry with a vast selection of electronic books in iBook. Electronic books offered in iBook store are around the same price as Amazon's Kindle platform, but with much more functions and convenience. Taking the form of iPad, and with the support of five largest publishers in the world, iBook offers the electronic version of various books and ebbeds multimedia such as photos, videos, and audio files into books, which is revolutionary. Therefore, the rapid development of technology has promoted the rapid changes and upgrading in book industry. From traditional physical books that we buy from retailers or borrow from libraries, to the online book sellers who sell both physical books and electronic books, to today, ebook stores in portable and mobile devices, how we read, when we read, where we read, and what we read have been transformed to a large extent.
  • haileyhjw on 05 Dec 14
     
    This is a good article. Sometimes, we think new technology will be a disrupted tech to kill and totally replace old industry.But actually, for old industry, the market will shrink a lot ,but won't totally disappear.
  • Olivia Azar on 08 Dec 14
     
    What's going to happen with printed books?
  • monde3297 on 10 Dec 14
     
    It depends on which side of the fence is one sitting on. The truth is the book is here to stay.
  • monde3297 on 10 Dec 14
     
    It is interesting that whenever a new innovation is introduced, the current one is declared dead before its final time arrives. Books in whatever format are appealing to different audiences for various reasons. To think that the introduction of e-books was going to lead to a declaration of war on printed books is laughable. Books will be with us for as long as we are still in this world. Does format matter? only time will tell.
  • ukanjilal on 12 Dec 14
     
    Long back Lancaster wrote about paperless society but still we are heavily depending on paper only. Technology has fast evolved. First we talked about e-libraries then virtual libraries and now contemplating cloud based libraries. Many technologies have come and gone but paper is still ubiquitous.
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Hire Education: Mastery, Modularization, and the Workforce Revolution | Christensen Ins... - 0 views

www.christenseninstitute.org/...hire module7 mooc training workforce ebook
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  • Kevin Stranack on 25 Aug 14
     
    "Who will attend to the skills gap and create stronger linkages to the workforce? This book illuminates the great disruptive potential of online competency- based education. Workforce training, competency-based learning, and online learning are clearly not new phenomena, but online competency-based education is revolutionary because it marks the critical convergence of multiple vectors: the right learning model, the right technologies, the right customers, and the right business model."
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Controlling Knowledge: Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection in a Networked World - 0 views

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  • Kevin Stranack on 05 Aug 14
     
    "Intended to serve as a "citizen's guide," Controlling Knowledge is a vital resource for anyone seeking to understand how freedom of information and privacy protection are legally defined and how this legislation is shaping our individual rights as citizens of the information age."
  • Kevin Stranack on 05 Aug 14
     
    module1 privacy knowledge "public policy" "digital citizenship" ebook
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The Future of Books is the Device You Have With You - Which Might Not be Your Phone - T... - 0 views

the-digital-reader.com/...uture-books-device-might-phone module13 books
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  • petrae77 on 30 Nov 14
     
    The Verge posted an interview yesterday of Oyster founder Willem Van Lancker. He makes some bold claims about the future of books, including that the phone is the future of ebooks: Where are people reading more, tablets, phones, or on the web? We've always been really big believers that the device of the future for books is ...
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Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web. - 7 views

www.openculture.com Open
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  • alwillw on 17 Oct 14
     
    The best free cultural and educational media on the web
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  • alwillw on 17 Oct 14
     
    The best free cultural and educational media on the web
  • scat39 on 06 Nov 14
     
    I already shared this web page hahaha
  • bsheman on 23 Nov 14
     
    Thousands of free courses, MOOCs, hundreds of free books, audiobooks, movies textbooks,
  • erikitaymarijo on 25 Nov 14
  • zimbron21 on 25 Nov 14
     
    The best FREE cultural & educational media on the web. Features free courses, movies, audio books, eBooks & thought-provoking daily posts.
  • Abdul Naser Tamim on 30 Nov 14
     
    erikitaymarijo, thank you for the attached list it is very helpful.
  • haileyhjw on 30 Nov 14
     
    Some of us get our education at film school. More of us get it from The Criterion Collection, that formidably cinephilic restorer, curator, and packager of classic motion pictures from every era.
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http://www.iheartintelligence.com/2014/08/31/free-books-100-legal-sites-download-litera... - 3 views

www.iheartintelligence.com/...egal-sites-download-literature literature books download eBooks open Access
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  • ibudule on 17 Nov 14
     
    Thank you for sharing.
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Cory Doctorow's craphound.com " News - 4 views

craphound.com/ open access DRM publishing privacy
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  • koobredaer on 17 Sep 14
     
    I wanted to share a OK resource: Cory Doctorow... yes a whole author as resource. He writes about open access on a number of different platforms and enacts open access in his published works. He is a YA novelist with many good books that explore many of the complex issues of society and technology that we are considering in this class. He sells his books through major publishers in print--but does not allow them to have DRM. But he also provides ebook copies for free on this website. Basically you can read it and remix it, but if you like it and want to support him--buy the book. This model seems to work for him. You can find him ranting about DRM and other open access issues all over the net, such as BoingBoing. Interesting guy, interesting topics--and some interesting free fiction books that are relevant to this class.
  • koobredaer on 17 Sep 14
     
    for a specific book suggestion, check out Little Brother http://craphound.com/littlebrother/ exciting SciFi all about online surveillance state, but also supposed to be filled with actual advice about how to hack your way around it and be a subversive, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brother_%28Doctorow_novel%29
  • laertes1a on 18 Sep 14
     
    Thanks. I like this. I haven't read his stuff, but now I will.
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Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software - 1 views

twobits.net/Kelty-TwoBits.pdf module6 module4 technology open source software
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  • Kevin Stranack on 18 Jun 14
     
    Christopher Kelty has written a book on the cultural importance of open source software and made it freely available under a CC license. It looks at free software from both a technical and social perspective, allowing for greater insights into its significance for today and for tomorrow.
  • Matt Tibble on 19 Nov 14
     
    This is a very interesting and thought provoking ebook. Not only does it provide a helpful historical view of how free software came to be, but it posits the impact of such a phenomenon on industry and culture. I particularity liked the view that the pervasiveness of free software - thanks to the Internet - is such that free software itself is instigating much change beyond its original perceived sphere of influence, being software applications. A good read if open source software, free software and impacts on culture interests you.
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Beating the Odds: Building a Publishing "Maker" Culture | American Libraries Magazine - 1 views

www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/...lding-publishing-maker-culture module3 makerspace public libraries ebooks
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  • Kevin Stranack on 26 Jun 14
     
    "With the emergence of new publishing tools, public libraries are able to be publishers for themselves. In essence, we can build a Maker culture for local publishing. "
  • Leticia Lafuente López on 04 Oct 14
     
    Thanks! I did not know about Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing. Quite useful!
  • Matt Tibble on 19 Nov 14
     
    Two competing views on the future of publishing, and how shifts in consumer behavior to purchasing or consuming electronic content is causing such a shift in the literary world. I found it interesting to read that a number of open source software platforms were identified as the harbingers of today's self-publishing model online. I never knew Wattpad existed - watt an awesome site (pun intended). I agree with the articles viewpoint about the role that public libraries can play in this shifting landscape. A good read.
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Fragmented Publishing: The Implications of Self-Publishing - 2 views

www.niso.org/...fragmented module3 self-publishing ebooks libraries
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  • Kevin Stranack on 27 Jun 14
     
    Unfortunately, the webinar itself is not free, but the slides are here. In particular, Mark Coker of Smashwords provides a good overview of the trends and future for self-publishing.
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  • Leticia Lafuente López on 04 Oct 14
  • nivinsharawi on 20 Nov 14
     
    it is useful powerpoint thanks
  • nivinsharawi on 20 Nov 14
     
    read presentation
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