The hopes and dreams being associated with the iPad remind me of the thinking that drove the investment in CD-ROMs circa 1997. There is something about the packaged neat-and-tidiness of the iPad that has publishing executives salivating in newspaper, magazine, and book publishing. For all their good intentions and for all the smart folks they [...]
The Authors Guild and the publishers are scurrying to salvage the Google Book search settlement. This will be seen as a blow against Google but it’s not — the plaintiffs have the most to lose. Cue the media frame: Google as the new Microsoft. DOJ troubles all over again. Wrong.
It is September and that means students around the world are angling to get cheap deals on their school books. It strikes me as a MASSIVE lost opportunity that publishers like Oxford, Penguin, and Random House haven’t rushed to make the public domain titles they publish widely or even freely available online. Even Dover Publications, [...]
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