"Three miles of books"---that's the caption on a Flickr photo of a Blackwell's bookstore. Someday could the books all be online? Imagine working on your thesis at the beach. Just how much progress are academic publishers and university libraries making?  Here in the States, at least, many trade publishers are buzzing about the Kindle. Academic publishers, however, along with their library customers, are not quite as excited about Kindle-style e-books yet despite growing interest in digital works. Leaders beyond the Kindle realm But in many ways the academic houses been the real leaders in delivering...

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Moderator: Liza Daly, our newest contributor, runs threepress.org, an open source project. See her bio at the end. Welcome, Liza! - D.R. "Do one thing, and do it well" is the core of the Unix Philosophy. Unix is the third major flavor of operating system besides Windows and Mac OS (actually a certain-flavored Unix), and it's the platform that serves most of the content on the Internet. Whether you are aware of Unix or not, its software development ideology has had pervasive influence in making the Internet an open platform not dominated by any one corporate interest. ...

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