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What’s Coming In 2012: Book Publishing
Gazing into her crystal ball, Laura Hazard Owen makes some predictions for the coming year in this post from paidContent.org.
As Amazon deepens it commitment to publishing its own titles, Laura says it will need to deal with its “bookstore distribution problem.” She predicts Amazon will strike [...]
Read More... →The Huffington Post has an excellent spread on libraries that has links to numerous articles including discussions of things like library budget cuts, libraries being more than books, the need for library advocacy, and critical library concerns in places like New York, [...]
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... →According to this article from Inside Higher ED, American Sociological Association president, Erik Olin Wright is announcing “the Sociology in Wikipedia Initiative: a formal call to sociologists to help improve and expand Wikipedia entries that might benefit from their expertise and consider assigning their students to do the same.” Wright is making [...]
Read More... →In the 21st-Century University, Let’s Ban Books
Here is an article that is bound to ruffle more than a few feathers. In this Chronicle for Higher Education commentary piece, Marc Prensky articulates a book lover’s nightmare, at least a print book lover. Prensky observes that “just about everything that an undergraduate needs to read is [...]
Read More... →An Unusual Library Finds a New Home
This article from the NY Times discusses the Read/Write Library, Chicago’s largest depository of grass-roots printed materials. “Formerly known as the Chicago Underground Library, Read/Write rejects the selectivity of traditional libraries and collects “anything from university press to handmade artists’ books to zines made by [...]
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