From the monthly archives: November 2011
In the mechanics of publishing, there are two main parts; one is the content itself and the other is the author. Recognizing the scholar behind the content is just as important as the material itself. For the fourth year, IGI [...]
Read More... →Multigrain Discussion: What’s going on in the Penguin – OverDrive – Amazon Affair?
by Tom Gilson, Associate Editor.
As many of you know, last week Penguin suspended availability of their ebooks to libraries via OverDrive and asked that the “Get for Kindle” functionality be disabled for all Penguin eBooks. And then a few days later, [...]
Read More... →Top Three Technologies to Tame the Big Data Beast
Regardless of whether you refer to it with the time worn phrase “information overload” or the more trendy term “big data”, the exponential growth of bits and bytes threatens to overwhelm us. Writing in the Huffington Post, Steve Hamby, Chief Technology Officer, Orbis Technologies, offers [...]
Read More... →For Their Children, Many E-Book Fans Insist on Paper
Surprisingly, it seems that the ebook wave is not engulfing kids and toddlers. In fact, even parents who prefer their books online want their children’s first reading experience to be in print. “They want their children to be surrounded by print books, to experience turning [...]
Read More... →Today’s news included items about Net Neutrality, a semi-bookless library, the Stop Online Piracy Act and The South Circular, an ejournal of new fiction.
Thanksgiving Week Serves Up Net Neutrality
Despite new FCC regulations (PDF file) on net neutrality taking effect on Nov 20th, the issue remains unresolved. A “lawsuit filed by Verizon in [...]
Read More... →Here are some brief news tidbits for your Thanksgiving Day from the National Library of Medicine, Library Journal, NASA and the WIPO.
National Library of Medicine Launches YouTube Channel
The National Library of Medicine announced “the launch of its new YouTube channel, at http://www.youtube.com/nlmnih. According to this news release “NLM YouTube channel [...]
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