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		<title>Ryerson U closes 1 of 2 bookstores; feelings are mixed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lyle Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the take from this Toronto Star article: Mixed feelings about the loss of a bookstore at Ryerson University and the sequestering of its books, by the students&#8230; though not by the article&#8217;s author. &#8220;Poor books. Snubbed yet again, this time by a university, an institution of learning.&#8221; The article describes the closure of one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Academics announce boycott of journal publisher Elsevier</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a related note to my piece the other day on high-priced academic indexes, Ars Technica and Techdirt are reporting on a movement by some academics to boycott Elsevier, an expensive (and big-profit earning) scientific journal publishing company which supported recent restrictive legislation: SOPA and PIPA, which were defeated, and the Research Works Act, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can costly academic indexes be fixed?</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/can-costly-academic-indexes-be-fixed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran across an interesting pair of articles concerning academic journal indexes—a complaint about the journals&#8217; expense and inaccessibility by Laura McKenna in The Atlantic, and a rebuttal pointing out a number of errors and misconceptions in McKenna’s article by Nancy Sims of the University of Minnesota Libraries on her blog. At the heart of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Espresso Book Machine encounter</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/my-espresso-book-machine-encounter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got to the Missouri State University Bookstore in Columbia, Missouri in the early afternoon, and went downstairs to where they kept their Espresso machine. As I had a book made, I spoke with Heather Tearney, the manager of the Mizzou Media section where the machine was kept, and Nic Maglio, one of the operators. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Princeton Shorts&#8217; Tries to Lure Readers With Digital Excerpts From Full Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lyle Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Chronicle of Higher Education: Attention spans are short. E-readers are plentiful. Digital delivery is fast and convenient. How can university presses turn those facts to their advantage and attract readers who want bite-sized morsels of content? Princeton University Press is about to test one approach with a new, e-only series. Called Princeton Shorts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruling in favor of UCLA right to rip DVDs may have implications for HathiTrust</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did I just hear the DMCA’s anti-circumvention precisions creak a little? Ars Technica reports that a judge has ruled educational institutions are legally entitled to rip and stream DVDs that they have legally purchased. The case involves UCLA ripping and streaming some educational DVDs from Ambrose Video Publishing. Ambrose sued over the anti-circumvention provision violation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opposing viewpoints on HathiTrust orphaned works issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve found a couple of more points of view on the HathiTrust lawsuit over the last couple of days, and given that they are diametrically opposed it seems like a good idea to present them together for contrast. First, SF and fantasy novelist Elizabeth Moon strongly opposes the use that the universities and HathiTrust are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authors Guild sues Google Books&#8217;s university partners</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/authors-guild-sues-google-bookss-university-partners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/authors-guild-sues-google-bookss-university-partners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lest we think that the lawsuit against Google that has been spinning its wheels for six years and gone precisely nowhere was the extent of the Authors Guilds efforts to fight the Google Books scanning projects, the Guild has struck again with a lawsuit against the universities that partnered with Google in the project, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does e-reading hinder the learning process?</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/does-e-reading-hinder-the-learning-process/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/does-e-reading-hinder-the-learning-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kansas City Star is carrying a story by Nicholas Carr warning that e-books may not be as conducive to learning as printed books. Carr points to a pair of studies suggesting that e-books can lead to students paying less attention to the material they read, or being unable to adapt their print reading styles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey shows most college students hate lugging textbooks more than they like sex</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/survey-shows-most-college-students-hate-lugging-textbooks-more-than-they-like-sex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kno, the company that had been designing a two-paned e-textbook tablet reader before deciding to get out of the hardware market and concentrate on software for existing tablets, has released a survey that states that American college students hate lugging books around so much that 73% of them would be willing to give up sex [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lecture note posting harms academic publishing, publishers claim</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/lecture-note-posting-harms-academic-publishing-publishers-claim/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/lecture-note-posting-harms-academic-publishing-publishers-claim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 03:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The closure of a half-century-old university bookstore in Ireland is raising questions about the propriety of lecturers posting class notes on-line, the Bookseller reports. The chairman of a UK academic publishing-industry lobby group claims the practice harms academic booksellers. The Bookshop at Queens, at the Queen’s University Belfast, has been in business for 53 years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital and Higher Education</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/digital-and-higher-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/digital-and-higher-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 13:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lyle Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study sponsored by the Pearson Foundation for Harris Interactive surveyed 1,214 college students and 200 high-school seniors heading to college.  More than two-thirds of them showed overwhelming interest in tablet devices, and believed that tablets would transform higher education. Interestingly, this same pro-tablet group largely did not own tablets: Only 7 percent of college [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robots retrieve books in new library at University of Chicago</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/robots-retrieve-books-in-new-library-at-university-of-chicago/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/robots-retrieve-books-in-new-library-at-university-of-chicago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 15:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publishers are trying to make e-books act more like print books—but some future library concepts are making print books act more like e-books. In particular, the $81 million Joe and Rika Mansueto Library that has just opened at the University of Chicago. SingularityHub’s Peter Murray has a feature on this fascinating library that stores 3.5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK vote on cuts to higher education to be held Thursday</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/uk-vote-on-cuts-to-higher-education-to-be-held-thursday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/uk-vote-on-cuts-to-higher-education-to-be-held-thursday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Matt Hayler&#8217;s 4oh4 Words not Found blog. Matt is a PhD student in the UK and a regular contributor to TeleRead. This is an important issue and as we have a lot of UK readers I reprint Matt&#8217;s blog post in full. Blockquotes omitted. _______________________ On Thursday the 9th of December 2010 the UK [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iTunes U supports EPUB files</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/library/itunes-u-supports-epub-files/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/library/itunes-u-supports-epub-files/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got the following email from Frank Lowney that I thought I should pass on to you: I thought that other Teleread subscribers might be interested in Apple’s not yet widely publicized announcement that the iTunes U service (free to higher education) now supports .epub files which nicely complements the way the iTunes.app supports .epub in [...]]]></description>
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