Entries from ©ollectanea tagged with 'future of publishing'
Settlement controlled pricing and tests on effects of openness
I looked around this morning for discussion of one of the points about the Google Book Search settlement that I consider among the most important, but I just didn't turn up anything. Granted, I only did a Google search and...
Google Book Search -- and Buy
So, at last, the cards are laid on the table and we see what everyone's holding. And guess who's got the winning hand! No surprise there. Google, by a landslide. (Whoops, my subconscious hopes for election day slipping in there...)...
Doctorow's CC licensed book, Little Brother, now at 4 weeks on NYT Bestseller List
Speaking of the future, here's a glimpse: Doctorow: First CC-Licensed Work on NYT Best Sellers List/New Graphic Novel - Creative Commons. Hooray for Cory Doctorow, showing the world (again) that free digital can sell (lots of) paper. Mmm. Smell that...
Scattering thought across the Web
It's funny how things connect up. Since I returned home from the CIP annual Symposium on UMUC's campus, I've been reading the copyright news with little enthusiasm. I see important things going on (like the brewing ACTA storm), but I...
Turnitin wins important victory in fight to combat plagiarism (and the bloat of copyright)
To the relief of many a high school, college and university administrator, Turnitin's system for helping teachers identify possible cases of plagiarism got a pass from the judge earlier this month. AV v. iParadigms (District Court, Eastern District of Virginia)....
Semantic web and copyright
Yahoo! announced today that it will be supporting Semantic Web and microformats to improve search results for structured data (as reported in ReadWrite Web: And Nerds Became Kings: Yahoo! to Announce Semantic Web Support - ReadWriteWeb). The Semantic Web has...
NIH Open Access Mandate necessitates institutional initiatives regarding reservation of rights
The ARL has published a very helpful report for universities and colleges that receive NIH funding regarding their options for facilitating their authors' compliance with the requirements of the new NIH Open Access Mandate: Complying with the NIH Public Access...
Lessig's entire repertoire is now freely available under CC licenses
Larry Lessig announced today that the fourth of his books, The Future of Ideas (actually, the second book in order of publishing) has joined the other three in being licensed for free access under a Creative Commons license: The Future...
if:book takes a look at the Amazon/Google ebook announcements from earlier this week
I mentioned the announcements about Amazon's new Kindle book reader (wifi'd) and Google's selling access to ebooks online in passing yesterday in a post on a related topic, but today if:book takes a more detailed and future-oriented look at the...
Music desperately pointing the way for publishing... anybody listening?
A couple of months ago, I noticed a tie-in between the publishing industry's future and the introduction of the iPhone reported at Print is Dead, and posted an entry here on the subject (What publishing can learn from the iPhone)....
What publishing can learn from the iPhone
Are you anticipating the launch of the iPhone in two days? Are you at this moment in a line to buy one? You could be. You probably aren't. But if things go even a little bit like everyone is predicting...
Losing sleep over copyright
I don't often lose sleep over copyright issues anymore. But last night I could not stop thinking about the Copyright Office's new resource for *children.* Please have a look if you haven't already: Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright. There's...
Publishers choosing to do without drm
A fellow Texan, and a fellow Ph.D. candidate (at North Texas State University), Brian Kenney gave a lecture about 2 weeks ago, ALA TechSource | Does Print Still Matter? Brian Kenney on the Future of Content in a 2.0 World,...
Further to my suggestion yesterday about genre fair use specs
One aspect of the research I plan to do while I'm studying at the ISchool (University of Texas at Austin) involves international aspects of the adaptation to a networked world. In particular, I'm planning a soujourn in France this summer...
Google Loses Newspaper Copyright Case in Belgium
Google has a pretty good track record with its court cases, but this one, as reported by O'Reilly Radar, has gone against the company: O'Reilly Radar > Google Loses Newspaper Copyright Case in Belgium. Ironically, O'Reilly's note points out that...
Wondering what Web 2.0 is about?
If Web 2.0 is a little bit fuzzy for you, have a look at this entrancing YouTube video highlighted on Lessig's blog: Lawrence Lessig. Incredible, no?...
We're Here! Come visit!
Thanks to Kim, Olga, Jack and all those at CIP whose work over the last month or two brought (c)ollectanea to life. This is a wonderful opportunity to expand the good work of the CIP by bringing members of its...
Encouraging news from Schloss hearing
A short post by Colette Vogele, at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, Schloss hearing, suggests that the judge in the case will likely allow the case to proceed, denying the defendant's motion to dismiss. She attended the hearing and...
Presses diversifying -- very good news!
Encouraging note in the Feb. 1 Library Journal Academic Newswire, For Oxford University Press, Online Venture Breathes New Life into the Monograph, describes just the kind of thing I'm excited to see in the scholarly publishing arena -- a...
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