Caught My Eye 6/29/12

Here are a few articles and blog posts that “caught our eye” during the last few weeks.

•  We Should Open an eBookstore -  Joe Wikert suggests that publishers i.e. the “Big Six”, the “Little guys” and “Everyone in between” get together and create an ebookstore.
• Dissertation for Sale: A Cautionary Tale – one man’s story about how his dissertation was hijacked and put on sale.
• Infographic Charts State Library Budget Cuts - these visuals  bring home the damage that’s being done and why it matters.
  
• Making things of interest Discoverable, Referencable, Relatable, …  observations from Lorcan Dempsey that are worth the read.
• At Meeting of University Presses, the Future Presses In - an insightful report by Jennifer Howard on the the annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses.
  
• Non-news is good news: The threat of the internet has forced magazines to get smarter – an article in The Economist that reports magazine publishers are adapting to “the new publishing landscape” with “a new sense of optimism.”
• An E-Reader Revolution for Africa? - a Wall Street Journal article from “the front lines of an effort to reinvent developing world literacy programs with technology.”