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Received the following press release: Harvardwood is a unique organization of more than 2,500 Harvard alumni, In the first of a series of articles Michael Bhaskar discusses the state of digital commentary. It’s a really good read and makes a lot of sense. It’s about time somebody took on the commentators who are speaking from a platform of ignorance. … While there is a lot of good commentary, much of [...] From the Wharton website: Two recent events have rocked the publishing world. First, The New York Times, which many regard as the newspaper of record in the U.S., said it would abandon the practice of providing free online content and start charging regular readers beginning in 2011. And second, Apple’s much-hyped tablet — the iPad — [...] According to Tech Flash, Mike Nash, a 19 year veteran of Microsoft, is leaving to join the Kindle team. Nash is, or was, Microsoft’s corporate vice president in charge of Windows 7 platform strategy. Nash, according to the article, is familiar with the Kindle business. Here is a snippet from the press release announcing Kindle [...] The SAE has now finished digitizing thier ligrary of technical papers written between 1906 and 1979 and they are now available as downloadable PDF documents. This means that the Society’s entire library of 88,000 documents is not avaialbe electronically. You can find the library here. (via Resource Shelf) The University of Kansas has made 4 Sony Readers available for checkout in its library. According to Rebecca Smith, communications and advancement director for the libraries, they have been so popular that the libraries are going to buy four more. “We’re trying to meet and anticipate student needs,” Smith says. “E-book readers are something students [...] Download Squad is reporting that an Apple threatened to remove an iPhone application because it contained a mention, in it’s description, that the app was also a finalist in Google’s Android Developer Challenge. For the app to remain available in the store the developer had to remove any reference to “Android”. Now I wonder [...] And now on to royalties. Three or four weeks ago, we began discussions with the Author’s Guild on their concerns about our new royalty terms. We indicated then that we would be flexible and that we were prepared to move to a higher rate for digital books. In ongoing discussions with our major agents at [...] Matt Hayler has a very interesting article on his blog entitled It’s Just a Book – A Problematic Gestalt. Digitisation, like any disruptive agent, forces us, and at unexpected moments, to confront the unfamiliar constituent parts of our composite forms. When a digital book “doesn’t feel right” we are reminded of how a bound [...] According to the several sources, Macmillan received a standing ovation. Shelf Awareness reports: “And special thanks and a show of support to the Macmillan companies in the face of bullying tactics by one of our largest competitors.”–Michael Tucker, head of Books Inc. and president of the American Booksellers Association, speaking yesterday at the opening of [...] |
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