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Copyright Watch | Global Transparency in Copyright Law
"Copyright Watch collects and monitors copyright laws from all over the world. "
BBC creates social media editor post | Media | guardian.co.uk
The BBC is establishing a new position in its UK newsroom in an attempt to adjust to a new media landscape
Magazine Publishers of America - Report: Magazine Innovation Summit 2009
"MPA's first ever Magazine Innovation Summit kicked off on October 14, 2009, with a full day of General Sessions that featured speakers, panelists and case studies addressing technological, operational and creative change in the business. More than 400 magazine executives and other leaders gathered for the two-day Summit, which began day one at the New York Grand Hyatt in New York City. Following are brief dispatches from the sessions."
New Enhanced SnapShot + Video | Cell Press Beta
There is a new Enhanced SnapShot available: Antibiotic Inhibition of Protein Synthesis II by Daniel Sohmen, Joerg M. Harms, Frank Schlünzen, and Daniel N. Wilson.\nPlease have look at the video below to get a better understanding of the capabilities of Enhanced Snapshots. The video shows how you can interact with the Enhanced SnapShot:
Article of the Future | Cell Press Beta
Cell Press and Elsevier have launched a project called Article of the Future that is an ongoing collaboration with the scientific community to redefine how the scientific article is presented online.\nThe project's goal is to take full advantage of online capabilities, allowing readers individualized entry points and routes through the content, while using the latest advances in visualization techniques. We have developed prototypes for two articles from Cell to demonstrate initial concepts and get feedback from the scientific community.
Income Models for Supporting Open Access (SPARC)
Developing a sound business model is a critical concern of publishers considering open-access distribution. Selecting the model appropriate to a particular journal will depend not only on the expense hurdle that must be cleared, but also on the publisher's mission objectives, size, business management resources, risk tolerance, tax status, and institutional or corporate affiliation.\nThis Web site and accompanying guide provide an overview of income models currently being used to support the open-access distribution of peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific journals. These resources will be a useful tool both for publishers exploring new potential sources of income and for libraries weighing where to direct meager library funds.
Google & the Future of Books - The New York Review of Books
How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view? The question is more urgent than ever following the recent settlement between Google and the authors and publishers who were suing it for alleged breach of copyright. For the last four years, Google has been digitizing millions of books, including many covered by copyright, from the collections of major research libraries, and making the texts searchable online. The authors and publishers objected that digitizing constituted a violation of their copyrights. After lengthy negotiations, the plaintiffs and Google agreed on a settlement, which will have a profound effect on the way books reach readers for the foreseeable future. What will that future be?
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For the last four years, Google has been digitizing millions of books, including many covered by copyright, from the collections of major research libraries, and making the texts searchable online. The authors and publishers objected that digitizing constituted a violation of their copyrights. After lengthy negotiations, the plaintiffs and Google agreed on a settlement, which will have a profound effect on the way books reach readers for the foreseeable future. What will that future be?
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But those of us who are responsible for research libraries have a clear view of a common goal: we want to open up our collections and make them available to readers everywhere. How to get there?
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CERLALC · Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe
El CERLALC es un organismo iberoamericano e intergubernamental que trabaja por el desarrollo y la integración de la región a través de la construcción de sociedades lectoras.\nPara ello orienta sus esfuerzos hacia la protección de la creación intelectual,
AAP, Authors Guild, Google Announce Groundbreaking Settlement over Google Book Search Library Project
"On October 28, 2008, AAP announced a groundbreaking settlement agreement in the Google litigation that will expand access to out-of-print books online for millions of American readers, allow rightsholders, if they wish, to include in-print books, and wil
Top 25 Blogs in Publishing Category
Blog Rank uses over 20 different factors to rank the blogs in any category. Some of the factors include:RSS membership, incoming links, Compete Alexa,and Technorati ranking, and social sites popularity
Textbooks for Tightwads - BusinessWeek
As classes start, business students are in for a shock: Textbook prices are higher than ever. A word to the wise: It pays to shop around
Reader's Digest and Just Plain Digestion | Britannica Blog
You’ve probably heard or read that the company that publishes Reader’s Digest magazine is bankrupt. This isn’t necessarily the end of an era, though. For one thing, the era that comes to mind arguably ended decades ago, when the publisher decided to branc
Flatworld offers Smarter, Fairer Model of Textbook Publishing
The traditional model for textbook publishing is broken. High college textbook prices are threatening to render college unaffordable to many students and their families.
Does Digital Cannibalize Print? Not Yet. - Tools of Change for Publishing
One of the big risk factors publishers think about when it comes to digital books is that they will cannibalize print sales. Factor in the lower prices we're seeing for ebooks, and it's a quite reasonable concern.
Kindle and the future of reading : The New Yorker
A New Page. Can the Kindle really improve on the book?
Cover design on Twitter
I thought it would be handy to compile a list of book cover design related twitter accounts. I’m probably missing some good ones, so consider this a working list. I’ll try and update the main post with any suggestions that come in.
Bits of Destruction Hit the Book Publishing Business
In this fourth part of our investigation into the ongoing changes in the book publishing business, we look at the author's point of view. What are they getting today? What would they like to get? What can they reasonably expect to get as this drama unfold
The Council of Science Editors (CSE)
CSE's mission is to promote excellence in the communication of scientific information.
CSE's purpose is to serve members in the scientific, scientific publishing, and information science communities by fostering networking, education, discussion, and exch
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