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By Tom Gilson, Associate Editor (gilsont@cofc.edu)
An article from the Pittsburg Post-Gazette recently caught our eye by claiming that the e-textbooks “that the major publishers have been offering … don’t save students that much money.” That kind of surprised us. The article moved on to pointed out other disadvantages. Many e-textbooks are set to “expire at [...]
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Perhaps the biggest news item of this week is the lawsuit filed against the HathiTrust, the University of Michigan, and four other universities. The Authors Guild, Inc. and two other author associations as well as eight individuals are suing the HathiTrust and the universities for what they claim is [...]
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In a recent post to Scholarly Kitchen (The Eve of Destruction,” Now on YouTube), Joe Esposito bemoans the “gloom and doom” that the publishing industry is constantly mired in. “It is the prevailing narrative, and it has been at least since I got into this business 30 years [...]
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There has been a lot of recent buzz about the proposed boycott of Amazon by a coalition of non-profits in California. According to the Huffington Post one of the groups behind the boycott, Think Before You Click CA, claims that the sales tax will bring in $200 [...]
Read More... →by Tony Horava, University of Ottawa, thorava@uottawa.ca
I’ve been thinking alot lately about ebooks and memory, esp as we have entered the era of mobile devices in a major way. Memory and reading are intricately bound together. What we read and how we read affects the development of memory – all of us have [...]
Read More... →by Tom Gilson, Associate Editor, GilsonT@cofc.edu
Interlibrary loan faces more competition than ever and while some may argue that users will never pay the fees asked by services like “Get it Now” or “On Demand Books” they might not have to. What happens if libraries discover that it is more cost effective to allocate funds [...]
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