How Can We Nurture the Next Generation of Editorial Talent?
(publishingperspectives.com): As publishing technology evolves, the way authors and publishers develop content is also evolving. Editors are a passionate group of people dedicated to making books the best they can be, but what other skills will they need as the industry continues to digitize? Read More
Explainer: Open access vs traditional academic journal publishers
(theconversation.edu.au): A growing number of academic institutions are building free online databases of their scholarly output. But publication in a big name academic journal still holds cachet for most academics. Read More
Are Voluntary Micropayments a Solution for Digital Content?
(publishingperspectives.com): Will readers voluntary pay arbitrary amounts of money for digital content? Writer Amanda DeMarco believes they will, and that this could be the beginning of a new business model for publishing. Read More
Could Google Fast Flip Have Survived on Tablets?
(mashable.com): Google will discontinue news-reading tool Fast Flip, to shift resources to its more widely used products. It will be removed from Google News and Labs in the coming days, though its approach to web content display will be integrated into other tools, Google announced on its blog. Read More
Is the Apple iPad a Tablet?
(pcmag.com): Competitors, analysts, and media have all called the iPad a tablet, but not Apple. The reason goes back to Steve Jobs’ overall view of a tablet. As Windows tablets came out, he looked at them and thought, “people don’t want that.” Read More
With iPads and e-books, U begins shift to digital
(mndaily.com): New technologies are lightening backpacks and saving paper as the University of Minnesota transitions away from dead-tree class materials. An increased effort from the University’s Office of Information Technology focuses on providing students with innovative studying tools. Read More
Medical journal condemns prolonged refugee detention
(theconversation.edu.au): New trends in m-Commerce show that smartphone owners are impulsive. Nearly double of smartphone and tablet owners use their gadgets to research a product rather than buying it, market research company e-Marketer has said. Read More
Smartphone, tablet users prefer researching to purchasing: report
(ecommerce.cbronline.com): New trends in m-Commerce show that smartphone owners are impulsive. Nearly double of smartphone and tablet owners use their gadgets to research a product rather than buying it, market research company e-Marketer has said. Read More
Internet Ruffles Pricey Scholarly Journals
(nytimes.com): After decades of healthy profits, the scholarly publishing industry now finds itself in the throes of a revolt led by the most unlikely campus revolutionaries: the librarians. Universities from Britain to California are refusing to renew their expensive subscriptions, turning instead to “open access” publishing, an arrangement whereby material… Read More
Research Bought, Then Paid For
(nytimes.com): American taxpayers have long supported research directed at understanding and treating human disease. Since 2009, the results of that research have been available free of charge on the National Library of Medicine’s Web site, allowing the public (patients and physicians, students and teachers) to read about the discoveries their… Read More
