Amazon And Others Slam Revised Google Books Deal
(wsj.com): Critics who blasted the first Google Books settlement have begun weighing in with objections to the modified agreement, which Google and authors sealed late last year to allay concerns that the first pact would give Google a monopoly in digital books. Amazon.com, one of the most outspoken critics of… Read More
Strategies for disseminating research findings
(researchtoolkit.org): A community research partnership is ideally part of a larger collaboration that includes the interests of each partner and spans a wide range of activities. Often a neglected afterthought in busy research schedules, the dissemination of key findings upon project completion is a crucial step in community-based research. In… Read More
Who Gets to Decide About $10 E-Books?
(wired.com): Hachette has become the third major publisher to publicly denounce Amazon.com’s $10 e-book model. It joins Macmillan and HarperCollins in what seems now like the death blow to a price point that had less to do with the inherent value of the content than it did with finding a… Read More
US publishers smile again as Kindle rivals emerge
(google.com/hostednews): US book publishers are smiling again, after years of watching digital versions of their titles sell for below what they thought they were worth. A host of rivals to the market-dominating Kindle electronic reader has given newfound hope to publishers that they will finally be able to dictate their… Read More
Ceramic society launches new glass science and applications journal
(firstscience.com): From cutting-edge photovoltaic power generation systems to substrates for repairing or even growing new human tissue, glass-based materials are playing an expanding role in the world's scientific and technical advances. Against this backdrop, The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) has launched a major peer-reviewed journal dedicated to applied glass research:… Read More
EPA Makes Chemical Information More Accessible to Public For the first time
(epa.gov): EPA is for the first time providing free access to the consolidated Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory on its Web site. Also for the first time the Inventory is available at Data.gov as a dataset and as an extraction tool, which makes the data easier to… Read More
Wiki-plagiarism endemic in Poland’s universities
(thenews.pl): Polish university students are using Wikipedia and “crib sheet” web sites as the main source for their master’s thesis, a new survey reveals. Students rely on the internet to an enormous degree. Some 44 percent of undergraduates at state-run universities and about 62 percent at private universities surf the… Read More
The Potential and Promise of “Live” E-books
(publishingperspectives.com): Enhanced e-books with web and video links embedded in the text is just the beginning. One of the things we can do is to enable the creation of unique new data sets using the Internet as a source. Real time analysis and use of this new data will allow… Read More
British Academy and Wiley-Blackwell Announce Result of the 2010 Wiley Prize
(as.wiley.com): Dr Essi Viding, an outstanding young developmental psychologist from University College London specialising in the causes of violent antisocial behaviour in children and adolescents, has been named by the British Academy and Wiley-Blackwell as the winner of the 2010 Wiley Prize, awarded for the first time this year to… Read More
Publishing industry changes
(mesmered.wordpress.com): There is no doubt that the publishing industry is changing. The best agent blogs in the business are constantly indicating this. Writers forums too are saying the same thing: the industry is tightening up, its developing to become fully competitive in a digital age. Its squaring up to fight… Read More
