Kapp Notes: Want to Write an Electronic Book? Check Out Sony - 0 views
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Nigel Robertson on 30 Sep 09"Over at Wired I found a great article on the ability of authors to self-publish their own books directly to the Sony eReader."
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Masie Center - Free Digital Books | Research & Articles - 0 views
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Masie's page with their free books available. Includes Learning Strategies.
AcademicPub - Custom Books for Higher Education - 1 views
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THE ACADEMICPUB APPLICATION GIVES EDUCATORS THE ABILITY TO CREATE THEIR OWN CUSTOM BOOKS - IN PRINT AND E-BOOK FORMAT. Our application provides real-time copyright clearance and an ever-expanding content library along with the ability to add your own materials and articles from the web. And - peer recommendations from colleagues in your discipline can present new possibilities to enrich your courses.
The Missing 20th Century: How Copyright Protection Makes Books Vanish - Rebecca J. Rose... - 1 views
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Interesting chart showing the negative effect "in copyright" has on book sales. Also talk by Prof Paul Heald explaining the effect.
Steal This Book! | TechCrunch - 1 views
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Jon Evans releases two novels as free ebooks. Both had previously been paid print releases. As a side note, both are thrillers - Invisible Armies is about hackers, anti-corporate protestors, globalization, and the surveillance society; Swarm is about fleets of UAVs in The Wrong Hands
Go To Hellman: Internet Archive Sets Fair-Use Bait With Open Library Lending - 0 views
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Post on Open Library starting to loan in copyright digital books. Very interesting.
Moodle 1.9 Math - 0 views
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Book describing creating maths courses using Moodle.
Format shifting dead trees: can e-book piracy be ethical? - 1 views
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"So you buy the hardcover and then pirate a homebrew e-book ...the interesting question isn't one of law, it's one of ethics"
Enhancing Teaching in higher Education - 1 views
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Google version of this book that looks at various ways of enhancing teaching both online and f2f.
Read an e-book week March 6-12 - 0 views
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It's read an ebook week - but nearly finished. E-books are 40 years old - who knew that?
CSU System Shares E-book Pilot Results - 0 views
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"After piloting a digital textbook rental program in fall 2010, the California State University system learned a few lessons about how the e-books worked for students."
Free for All: National Academies Press Puts All 4,000 Books Online at No Charge - Wired... - 0 views
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Expensive chemistry books (and others!) now free online by a pioneer of open content.
The Technium: What Books Will Become - 0 views
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Fold out and projected ebooks suggested in this future looking article on the book. Remember you heard it first walking to coffee with me!
Views: A Truly New Genre - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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"My "video-book," Learning From YouTube (LFYT), was "published" by the MIT Press in February. With support from the press and many others, I have pushed the media studies monograph, kicking and screaming, fully onto the Internet. "This is not your typical scholarly book..."
iPads reduce costs, improve communication for University of Adelaide | Computerworld Ne... - 1 views
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Adelaide science faculty gives all 1st year students an iPad and only uses electronic text books. Have redesigned the curriculum and getting very positive results. Book costs for students have dropped to 60% of what they were and the uni is looking to move entirely to free online resources.
Piracy: the intellectual property ... - Adrian Johns - Google Books - 0 views
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Looks interesting if anyone wants to catch up on piracy, brandjacking and the sophistication and wars behind this stuff.
Essay challenging Kevin Carey's new book on higher education @insidehighered - 0 views
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Powerful review of Kevin Carey's techno-determinist book 'The End Of College' - by Audrey Watters & Sara Goldrick-Rab
Widbook - Write, read and share - 1 views
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Interesting authoring tool. Anyone want to write a book and try it out? :) Noted as a possible alternative to iAuthor
Who Really Owns General Education Content (or Can Any Gen Ed Title Really Be Unique)? - 0 views
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Examination of the Boundless textbooks case by asking the question, 'What is unique in a foundational text book?'
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