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Category Archives: publishing
Reading Experiences: Kindle App
After years of purposely ignoring ebooks, seeing readers come and go out of the corner of my eye – and library collections and packages tried and rejected – I’m finally experimenting with a few new ways of consuming monograph-length content. … Continue reading
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Customer vs. container, content vs. service
Lots of interesting ideas floating around this week about the future of publishing, much applicable and relevant to libraries. First up, the Scholarly Kitchen’s blogging of the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s IN conference keynotes, with an interesting comment about “diffintermediation” … Continue reading
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Industry-Sponsored Professional Development
Back in March, I attended an “e-book summit” in Boston that was sponsored by Springer. Springer did a fantastic job of putting together a program of topics and speakers who touched on various aspects of e-book access and management. They … Continue reading
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E-LIS E-Prints for Library & Info Science
I had heard of E-LIS but forgot about it. From the site: E-LIS relies on the voluntary work of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and is non-commercial. It is not a funded project of an organization. It is … Continue reading
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CrossRef Has a Blog
It’s been around since last August, but it was news to me (via Lorcan Dempsey’s weblog) that CrossRef has a blog. It looks like posting is picking up in the new year. The tagline is “publishers, collaboration, innovation” and apparently … Continue reading
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Gosh darn it, one of my unwritten rules for this blog is not to reference other blogs too often. I often appreciate such referencing in the blogs I read, I just don’t want to do it too much myself. But … Continue reading
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Siva Vaidhyanathan on Google and Copyright
On June 15, I heard Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan give the keynote address at the 2006 SUNYLA conference. (Vaidhyanathan is a professor of communications at NYU; you can read more about him, and hear the correct pronunciation of his name, at … Continue reading
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