univ libraries take a declining percent of overall budget
In an interesting post at the Scholarly Kitchen, Phil Davis discusses the ARL report revealing that academic libraries have taken a steadily decreasing share of the overall academic university budget....
View Articlebaldur on readium: the limits are not in what can be engineered, but what can...
In a long insightful and precise article (past the political metaphor), Baldur discusses the problems ahead for the Readium project announced by IDPF. corrected from an earlier version....
View Articleon authors' rights: HIGHLY recommend googles filing #GBS on AG class cert motion
After being stranded on a non-wifi airplane (egads!), and thus plowing carefully through Google's filing countering the AG's motion for class certification in the GBS case, I would like to heartily...
View Articlethe takedown of library.nu and why piracy is the sign of marketplace frustration
Over the last couple of days, a coordinated action among several publisher associations took down a site that connected readers to a large collection of digitized books, many of which were actually HE...
View Articledigital media and learning conference in SF March 1-3
via Kathy Ishizuka, the Digital Media and Learning Conference looks really quite interesting (chaired by Diana Rhoten). http://dmlcentral.net/blog/howard-rheingold/digital-media-learning-conference......
View Articlegoogle apple and iphone tracking: who sets default practice
a nice piece by john battelle inserting some nuance into the inflammatory google ad network tracking story on Apple's iphones published in the WSJ:...
View Articleon library circulation and sales: clarifying numbers by @gluejar
eric hellman clears up some basic numbers relating to library circulation and sales: http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2012/02/borrowing-vs-buying-books-numbers.html "In 2009, the most recent year for...
View ArticleTPP and First Sale: another secretly negotiated int'l legal proposal,...
The Trans Pacific Partnership, a successor to ACTA, currently being negotiated, might have some profound ramifications for First Sale, which is generally come under conflict court rulings recently....
View Articlebookrepublic launches italian ebook renting/ lending system
Bookrepublic.it is launching an innovative ebook lending system in Italy, the Media Library Online (MLOL), among the publishers they represent; small fees are charged for each loan. The MLOL will...
View Articlenbc takedown of their news broadcast in romney ad: where is the 1st amendement
Chicago law professor Randy Picker has a scathing post on NBC's assumption that they could force Mitt Romney to cease use of a campaign ad that briefly excerpted a 15 year old NBC news broadcast...
View Articlesocial signalling and structured data: fb and goodreads
goodreads reports phenomenal growth through facebook's timeline mechanism: http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/29/goodreads-facebook-timeline/ "For Goodreads, too, the growth curve has been significant —...
View Articlethe road slants down and down and ... maybe there's a cliff: digital book sales
James McQuivey, of Forrester (and on this list), suggests that extrapolation from recently observed trends is not the smartest approach to adapting to a digital book environment:...
View Articlevideos from personal archiving conference now up at @internetarchive
Videos of talks from the Personal Digital Archiving Conference are now available at the Internet Archive. This conference, held February 23-24, was initiated by Jeff Ubois, now of Macarthur. I had a...
View Articledigital books and flying cars (my talk at umich)
Some of you on this list saw a presentation that I was privileged to give at a Firebrand Technology conference a couple of years ago, on the transformation in publishing. For a Univ. of Michigan event...
View Articleplos launches currents journal based on wordpress platform @annotum
PLOS has launched a new journal based on the open source platform annotum, PLOS Currents | Disasters. What's striking about this is that annotum is built on wordpress, and offers a variety of...
View Articleinteractivity and the future of ebooks: "who do we want as an audience?" -...
Baldur has a looong post on interactivity and ebooks. Some excerpts relating to the central thesis, which is really incredibly important: http://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/lessons-in-interactivity/...
View Articlenotes from the BCLT conference on orphan works and mass digitization...
This last week, an amazing conference organized by the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology on orphan works and mass digitization was held at the Claremont Hotel. It was a unique gathering of 200...
View ArticleSupreme Court to hear first sale case that impacts libraries and much else...
This is a *really important* case. Among many other things, it might impact on whether libraries can place foreign printed books on their shelves. More from Public Knowledge:...
View Articlevalve investigates AR and wearable computing: integrating real and virtual...
A notable Valve engineer (before joining valve, he co-authored Quake, and was also largely responsible for engineering management for much of the graphics engine for Microsoft Windows NT) writes about...
View Article[FLA] Funding for Florida Library Cooperatives Vetoed!
Aargh. the State of Florida has eliminated funding for their library cooperatives, which help facilitate inter library loan, automation, and acquisitions, among other things. just zeroed them out. no...
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