Showing posts with label ebooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ebooks. Show all posts
Monday, October 11, 2021

MediaWeek (Vol 14, No 9) Pearson vs. Chegg Legal Issues, Bookstore eBook Sales + More

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Legal Experts On Pearson V. Chegg And Why It Could Be A Huge Deal ( Forbes ) The essence of Pearson’s legal claim is that Chegg is engaging ...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

MediaWeek (Vol 13, No 13): Bloomsbury, The Strand Bookstore, Ebooks & Libraries, Education & Academic Publishing

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Roundup of publishing news from the past several months. Harry Potter publisher says Covid has weaved magic over book sales ( Guardian )   “...
Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Don't give up on Print.

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A recent telephone survey undertaken by Pew Research confirmed book reading is still a strong pastime despite the wide variety of distra...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

EBSCO's Tim Collins on eBooks, Libraries and Search "has never been more important".

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Interesting interview from Scholarly Kitchen with Tim Collins .  Here's a clip: Many libraries are starting to see that, while they ma...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Publishing Platforms Evolve

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Interview in Research Information Magazine recently: When the first big scholarly e-book programmes launched six or seven years ago there...
Monday, October 21, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 42): Open Access Myths, eBooks and Tablets, China's Fake Research Industry, Brit Trade Invasion, + More

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Open Access expert Peter Suber writes in the Guardian:  Open access : six myths to put to rest Open access to academic research has neve...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Justice Department declares emphatic victory in price fixing case against Apple eBookstore

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In a decision which will undoubtedly be appealed but which opens the possibility of hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties and restitu...
Monday, May 06, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 18): Performance Reading; eBook Lending and Retail; eBooks and Libraries; Scholarly Publishing and Truth + more

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Interesting experiment reported in the NYTimes about a performance art project undertaken at NYU: Regular patrons hardly seemed to notice ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

LOC: International Summit of the Book

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A 1 1/2 day summit event at the Library of Congress next week which they hope to turn into "an annual global meeting of minds to discus...
Monday, November 26, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 48): History & Future of Books - Video with O'Reilly, Friedman, Auletta on Charlie Rose, Follett CEO, The Friendly Intenet + more

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A discussion about the history and future of books with Tim O'Reilly, Jane Friedman, Jonathan Safran Foer, Ken Auletta, and David Kasta...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

BISG Report: Consumer Attitudes to E-Books

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From BISG the annoucement of the final installment of their study into consumer attitudes towards e-Books. Available today, the fourt...