Curt Rice, Guardian Higher Education Network: "Are politicians stealing our academic freedom? Is their fetish with open access publishing leading to a 'pay to say' system for the rich? And will the trendy goal of making publicly financed research freely available skew the world of scholarship even further towards the natural sciences? I don't think so. But it took me a while to get there."
Last week Simon & Schuster signed a deal with 3M and the NYPL to distribute eBooks into libraries. Now all of the “Big6″ corporate publishers have some type of agreement selling eBooks into public libraries.
NBF kunne ikke akseptere forleggerforeningens krav om at bare enkeltbibliotek skal kunne kjøpe inn og låne ut e-bøker, og mener dette ville vært et tilbakesteg i forhold til dagens praksis.
Susanne Trydal, Bokälskande butikschef, Akademibokhandeln Sickla "Snart slår e-boken igenom, snart är framtiden här! Jag kan inte låta bli att undra om det inte är Amazon som snart är här. Är det inte egentligen Amazon vi är rädda för, att det är därför vi kraftsamlar? För när Romarriket bestämmer sig för att göra oss till en provins har vi inte något val, eller hur var det nu igen… När de kommer och beslutar sig för att sälja e-böcker med förlust bara för att de kan, ja då är det inte mycket vi har att sätta emot. Blir det billigt nog tror jag absolut att folk kan tänka sig att gå över till att läsa digitalt. Då slår säkerligen e-boken igenom"
Svensk Biblioteksförening föreslår en ny ersättningsmodell, abonnemangsmodellen med tre byggstenar. 1. Möjliggör en kommersiell e-boksmarknad (licenser för nya e-bokstitlar) 2. Skapa incitament för bibliotek att arbeta med en stor titelbredd (abonnemang) 3. Åstadkom samverkan för digitalisering av äldre material (digitaliseringssamverkan)
Alice Meadows: "...while most of us agree that OA can benefit authors and readers, it is simplistic to assume that these benefits apply equally across all disciplines. "
Michael Cairns 7.12. "And so it begins: The end of Amazon's dominance as a book retailer ... From a trends perspective, the Google eBookstore will help accellerate the developing comfort level that consumers have with not owning the products they 'purchas
12/06/2010 07:00:00 AM Today is the first page in a new chapter of our mission to improve access to the cultural and educational treasures we know as books. Google eBooks will be available in the U.S. from a new Google eBookstore. You can browse and searc
Readers will use their Google accounts to purchase the books directly from Google, whose Google Checkout system will serve as the payment platform. Google will pay publishers 63 percent of revenues and keep 37 percent for itself where it sold ebooks direc
This website has several resources in reading and language arts instruction. There are lesson plans that teachers created. The good thing about the site is, there are key words right underneath the lesson plans which help you to understand if it is a kind of source that you are looking for. The bad thing about the site is, lots of resources can not be reached, out of date.
Kidspiration is a visual way to explore and understand words, numbers and concept. This software serves children from Kindergarten to 5th grade. This program develops elementary reading comprehension, writing, and math skills. It helps students to strengthen their writing, reading, and math skills.
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction.
"Welcome to the largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. The site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship, and has the largest readership of any similar site on the web. We need you to keep this site online. Help TODAY to ensure that these books are preserved by purchasing the new ISTA FLASH DRIVE 9.0 here... "
"What excites me about ebooks is not that they’re easier to carry around but that they’re digital documents. Couple that with a digital network, and now we’re talking about reinventing reading." "...there are plenty of reasons to finish the book /I am writing - mb/ and create editions (version control, for instance), but they are now choices, not rules dictated by the medium." ".. see reading for what it truly is: a conversation in which authors, readers, and an entire community can use the book to build knowledge and exchange ideas"
av Mats Deurell 15 juli 2011 (Politiken.se 9.9.2011) Refererar och kommenterar SOM-rapporten "Lycksalighetens ö". Påstående: "För tio år sedan gjorde 71 procent av befolkningen minst ett biblioteksbesök per år, nu har den siffran minskat till 46 procen
April 11, 2011 The cloud, along with subscription and on-demand services, will transform our perception of content access and ownership. "Ten, 15 years from now, we will look back on this time as a quaint, yet painful transition period: one where consumer
"Realisten dör i realpolitikern, men vad är den senare för ett sorts underligt djur i atomåldern? Jo, ofta en som viftar bort alla varningar från de verkliga realisterna." (Harry Martinson) http://is.gd/bAKLwH
Inside Higher Education:"... Momtchiloff said the publisher is revamping how it generates PDF files from its titles, which could potentially produce files that more closely resemble the source. ... Despite Momtchiloff's response, Pasnau said he wasn't convinced the publisher will make the platform more useful for researchers. ... "They'll presumably fix the worst of the problems I pointed out, but this basic procedural problem remains," Pasnau wrote in the email. "It simply takes a great deal of hard work to change the format of a book so radically and then expect it to be displayed properly. It's like going through a whole second production process."
Bob Pasnau, University of Colorado (‘In medias’ aspires to assemble in one place the latest information pertaining to scholars of medieval philosophy. This blog will avoid rants and philosophical musings, confining itself itself to news and notes of general interest to medievalists.) on library ebooks from Oxford University Press. copyfight
8.3.12: Utredare: "Biblioteken måste gå samman"Folkbiblioteken kan inte jämställa e-boken med den tryckta. Det menar Tomas Lidman, regeringens litteraturutredare, som säger att landets folkbibliotek måste gå samman och förhandla gemensamt med förlagen. Zlatan-biografin i digital form har fått e-bokskontot att skjuta i höjden för många av landets bibliotek. Samtidigt är förlagen djupt missnöjda över att potentiella e-bokskunder laddar hem e-boken gratis från bibliotekens sajter i stället för att köpa den.
Alan Toner: "With the growth of file-sharing into a mass phenomenon in the middle of the last decade, dedicated book sites appeared, sometimes linked explicitly to complaints about access and cost. This was the case with the Danish vidensdeling.nu founded in August 2005 to provide a platform for students to share course books. Publishers immediately shut the site down. A similar site in the US, Textbook Torrents launched in 2007, was closed in the summer of 2008 after an article in the Chronicle for Higher Education led to threats of legal action against its creator."
April 3, 2012 - 9:33pm By Joshua Kim Have you noticed that books are looking more and more like apps? Do you find yourself buying books from the Kindle Single store? Browsing the nonfiction selections at nowandthenreader.com? Checking out the original stories at atavist.net? Getting excited about the newest release from the TED Books?
"Thanks to Thomas J. Watson, the founder of IBM, in 1949, when he published his degree thesis in Philosophy at the Papal Gregorian University of Rome, entitled “The Thomistic Terminology of Interiority”, father Roberto Busa could start his work. Index Thomisticus was completed just 30 years later, now considered an outstanding mileage in Informatics and computing in humanities"