The wisdom of ‘Levinsky’
Stocked up on vacation reading the old-fashioned way--a local library sale. Got The Rise of David Levinsky for 50 cents in paperback. This, of course, is the stuff that copyright...
‘No rights reserved’
If you want to avoid having your material copyrighted, the law may make it difficult--since copyright is the default. Creative Commons has some suggested language covering different situations.
Textbook corruption?
"Two California school board officials who have helped steer the state's textbook selection process established personal financial relationships with lobbyists for the publishing industry, raising questions about whether they lacked...
E-book survey: Wide potential appeal
Some three-fifths of the people surveyed at a book expo said they would be willing to check out an e-book at a library, according to the Open eBook Forum."No correlation...
OLED tech: Roll-up ‘book’ in a pen?
The skeptics say e-books will always be harder to read than p-books. Not so. You already know about e-ink--which would make possible readable book-style devices with flippable pages. But other...
The joys of online serendipity
Cheers to Ralph Nader for organizing a $10,000-a-table library benefit in Washington, D.C., and to Post columnist Marc Fisher for writing about it. And, yes, they are both right in...
The blockbuster bust–and the gender factor
Sales of Michael Crichton, Tom Clancy and Stephen King aren't meeting expectations in many bookstores, according to Linton Weeks of the Washington Post. And guess what? Price is among the...
‘Books cost too much’: What to do about it
"Books cost too much" was the slogan of the Crown bookstore chain (itself a victim of the horrid economics of the industry, not just a feud within the Haft family)....
Library-Usability.org
Check out LibraryUsability.Org. Not sure if it's gotten around to addressing our big beef: the clumsy log-on systems that many libraries inflict on users of databases, electronic articles and the...
The RosettaBooks case
"Random House Inc. has settled a lawsuit against an e-book publisher that was selling digital versions of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle and seven other popular titles." - Washington Post, Dec....
AMAZON
A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
