Inside Higher Ed‘s Scott McLemee made the rounds at BEA to investigate academic publishing’s e-books strategy. His report appears in today’s edition. Shifting to digital is not the quick, smooth, cost-free move […]
Category: all things digital
Trouble in the stacks
The Chronicle covers Ohio State’s conundrum over library space and digital collections. Tight space isn’t the only force at work. Researchers’ behavior is shifting away from print. “All the […]
Down the Youtube
There has been a lot of hand wringing lately about the financial future of print publishing. Slate looks at the current economic outlook of the leaders of Web 2.0. […]
The bookless library?
The April 3, 2009, edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education features a piece on tensions involved in the uncertain digital future. […]
The hidden revolution in scholarly publishing
Scott McLemee’s column in Inside Higher Ed explores the topic of digital publishing. The growing importance of digital publishing will not mean a sacrifice of one mode of attention for the […]
Google Books Settlement to be challenged
Google’s inclusion of millions of orphan works in their big scanning project–and their plan to profit from these still-copyrighted, unclaimed works–was a hot topic at the settlement symposium sponsored by […]
Pirates!
E-book pirates, that is. NPR’s All Things Considered reports on e-book piracy and publishers’ efforts to use digital rights management (or “DRM” if you’re hip) to protect their titles against […]
Book 1.0 Release Notes
Video game webcomic Penny Arcade announces a new book format: they call it “Book”, and it features “an intuitive, touch-based interface.” “Book” also performs extremely well in drop tests and […]
Google Alert (in 36 Languages)
This New York Times article explains pretty clearly the lengths to which Google is going to alert the world’s authors of the terms of its book settlement. So far, more […]
Kindleizing Technoland
The New York Times’ review of Amazon’s new Kindle is worth reading. The point everyone is missing is that in Technoland, nothing ever replaces anything. E-book readers won’t replace books. […]