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The New University Press

By alex | Published: 6/16/2010
The future of the book, and of the publishing industry, has far less to do with what you produce, and far more to do with enabling an ongoing conversation. This isn’t news to any of you, you live it. But it’s easy, in the midst of a project, to get seduced by the myth that [...]
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iPad Goes Back to the Future

By alex | Published: 3/8/2010
So Penguin is talking about how tablets (read “iPads”) will lead to new forms of books. Their vision? Encarta, circa a decade ago. Really? This is what Penguin thinks people want from Pengiun? They’re going to try to go head-to-head with PopCap? The future of the book is, at least for the next few decades, [...]
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Book triage

By alex | Published: 7/1/2008
With most of the loose paper now in electronic form, I’ve been starting to make slow progress in scanning some of the books. In practice however, I’m not scanning my entire library, and I’m not scanning it right away. As I go through the books, I find they fall into several categories: Give away I [...]
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Battle over books

By alex | Published: 11/19/2005
The verbal boxing match over Google Library at the New York Public Library on Thursday (there is a Quicktime stream of the debate at that site) was a bit more lively than most scholarly roundtables. At times, it seemed like the audience’s champagne might have been spiked with a bit of Jerry Springer juice. The [...]
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November 17: Battle over Books

By alex | Published: 11/13/2005
I’m headed to the New York Public Library this Thursday for the Battle Over Books panel: “The Battle Over Books: Authors & Publishers Take on the Google Print Library Project” will feature a provocative discussion about the competing interests and issues raised by Google’s Print Library Project, hosted by LIVE from the NYPL and Wired [...]
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Yahoo Will Scan Books

By alex | Published: 10/3/2005
Google ran into a snag on their digitization project, but let’s see what a little bit of open content competition will do for the process. The New York Times is running an article on the Open Content Alliance. The interesting difference here is that the OCA is based on many hands making light work. Rather [...]
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Dead Libraries

By alex | Published: 11/26/2003
Academic libraries are the walking dead. I just got booted out of ours at six, and it won’t be open tomorrow. They close early on Saturdays, too. Our library seems closed, of course, whenever I seem to need it. They even seem to turn off their servers many nights, for reasons that are entirely beyond [...]
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