November 2011
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PBS MediaShift: E-Book Publishers Must Provide... →
Trying to consume an e-book can be an infuriating experience. Consumers like me want to enjoy the digital version of a book when, where and how we want. We love to be able to read it from multiple screens, search it automatically, share annotations, even have the text read aloud as we drive or do dishes. In theory that’s the promise of the new world of book publishing. But in practice,...
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For Amazon Prime Readers, a Lending Library →
With less than two weeks to go before the new Kindle is in the hands of the masses, Amazon is aiming to stoke sales with more benefits. Wednesday night it announced a new program that loans eligible customers a free e-book every month.
The program, the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, is open to Kindle users who are also members of Amazon Prime, the $79-a-year fast shipping and video-streaming...
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e-reads: The Seven Types of Pirate - Which Are... →
Clearly, there is a disconnect between the phenomenon of rampant piracy and the scarcity of perpetrators, and the reason seems to be semantic. If we can develop better definitions we may be able to develop better solutions.
Towards that end we offer the following categories of pirate:
The Innocent
The Ignorant
The Customer
The Philosopher
The Recreational Thief
The Facilitator
The...
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TeleRead: Reading a book vs. on a screen: study... →
A book or a screen – which of these two offers more reading comfort? There are no disadvantages to reading from electronic reading devices compared with reading printed texts.
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Not All Bits: Warner Bros. Locking Down Harry... →
Warner Bros is going to be pulling a Disney maneuver and locking away the Harry Potter films “in their vaults” for some time. So, very soon, you’ll not see the first movie on the shelves at the shops anymore. Then the second will disappear and so on until you can’t buy a new copy of any Harry Potter movie.
Let me stop right there and tell you about The Lion King.
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“A team of computational linguists at Carnegie Mellon University… has used...”
– Twitterology - A New Science? - NYTimes.com (via interestingsnippets)
October 2011
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What Wikipedia Deletes, and Why →
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The researchers, Andrew G. West and Insup Lee, wondered what content on the enormously popular Web site could be so troubling that Wikipedia administrators would decide to remove it forever. “Wikipedia is at that paramount example of open-source transparency,” Mr. Lee said. “So when you see them behaving in a nontransparent manner, you want to see what motivates them to do...
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Library Director refused to close main library... →
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During the Tuesday afternoon rally, as about 500 people gathered outside the city’s main library at 14th and Madison streets, organizers announced that police “called the library in anticipation of our gathering and asked them to shut it down. They said, ‘No,’ because they know what side they are on.”
“we are a symbol of civil society for a lot of groups, including this...
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E-book acquisition based on use and demand could... →
infoneer-pulse:
Librarians might frown on P.D.A. in the library — that is to say, Public Displays of Affection by canoodling college couples.
But another kind of P.D.A. might bring a different, more welcome sort of disruption to the library; a disruption that, once libraries pass the e-book tipping point, could save some universities thousands in annual purchasing costs.
That would be...
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Internet Freedom: Linking Not Libel in Canada →
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Bloggers rejoice, eh! The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled that online publications and websites cannot be charged for libel for linking to defamatory material.
The ruling found that the act of linking was distinct from publishing or repeating libel, provided the link itself was not libelous. The decision follows a case in which Wayne Crookes, a Vancouver businessman...
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“Of the current top ten e-book bestsellers on Amazon, four of them are...”
– Ruth Franklin, Senior Editor, The New Republic. Why Writers Should Embrace Amazon’s Takeover of the Publishing Industry. (via futurejournalismproject)
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“There’s nothing more valuable in the war against stupidity than the public...”
– Philip Pullman (via thelifeguardlibrarian) 