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"Hot Topic of the Week"
by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College
The Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, in partnership with Library Renewal, has launched a petition drive for e-books. They’re trying to convince certain publishers to sell e-books to libraries, and for other publishers to make their pricing and sales models more library-friendly. Here’s [...]
Read More... →by Jonathan Harwell, Rollins College
It’s great to be back in Hot Topics Land after a time of transition, as I’ve been fortunate to relocate to the breathtaking campus of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and have been warmly welcomed by an amazing library team.
As I’ve been [...]
Read More... →As many of you know, the new Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report Federal Depository Library Program: Issues for Congress is now available from the Federation of American Scientists, Project On Government Secrecy web site.
This is a big issue for a lot of folks and Miriam A. Drake has written an informative [...]
Read More... →In his Chronicle of Higher Education article 3 Major Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up, Nick DeSantis reports on a joint complaint filed in federal court by publishers Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education against start-up Boundless Learning. The three publishers maintain “that the young company, which produces open-education alternatives to printed textbooks, [...]
Read More... →You may have noticed that our most recent “article of the week” was not an article at all but a report outlining how libraries can, and are expanding their roles to become “publishers” in the digital age. Now we learn that the Chronicle of Higher Education has interviewed Monica McCormick from New York University about [...]
Read More... →In last week’s Wall Street Journal L. Gordon Crovitz challenged the lawyers in the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department. His article “Steve Jobs, Price Fixer? takes issue with notion that Steve Jobs’ agreement with book publishers to move to an “agency model” (Publishers setting the price for each book and e-reader companies take [...]
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