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"But access is not all that digitization can do for us. Why should we limit ourselves to thinking about digital facsimiles as being akin to photographs? Why should we think about these artifacts in terms only of the texts they transmit? Let’s instead think about digitization as a new tool that can do things for us that we wouldn’t be able to see without it. "
Review of The Great Divergence by Timothy Noah; Coming Apart by Charles Murray; Power, Inc by David Rothkopf; Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt; Greedy Bastards by Dylan Ratigan; Tea Party Patriots by Meckler and Martin; Spoiled Rotten by Jay Cost.
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Liberals would do well to read Cost’s book, for reasons other than what he intended: it demonstrates how powerful the impulse is to see what you’re for as unself-interested and what the other guy is for as interest-group greed. A full sense of what conservatives object to in the Obama program can be hard to extract from daily conservative discourse. Cost provides this. You can put on his glasses and see that “Obamacare” looks like a set of deals with privileged health-care companies that got a seat at the bargaining table, that the stimulus and the financial rescue were ways of helping banks and unions that contributed to the 2008 campaign, that cap-and-trade environmental legislation was a way of rewarding big environmental groups and corporations.
"The reading habits of medieval people have revealed details of their lifestyle, in research carried out at St Andrews University.
Researchers have found them to have many characteristics still found in modern readers.
They said medieval people feared illness, were selfish and often fell asleep while reading late at night.
The work used a technique developed by Dr Kathryn Rudy, which measures the dirt accumulated on medieval manuscripts."
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The source of that massive fall-off at the midpoint is seemingly simple: all books published in the U.S. in 1922 or earlier are in the public domain. What's immediately apparent from this graph is the fact that copyright is limiting the public's access to older works—but why and how, exactly? The answer lies in the reality of what a copyright is really worth, commercially, and how long it retains that value—and it sheds light on another problem with copyright law.
"Below is a list of digital/paperback books and digital bibliographies from Digital Scholarship that cover open access topics."
Those of you who don't keep up with Edinburgh's literary world through Twitter may have missed the recent spate of mysterious paper sculptures appearing around the city.
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A gift in support of libraries, books, works, ideas..... Once upon a time there was a book and in the book was a nest and in the nest was an egg and in the egg was a dragon and in the dragon was a story.....
"The tech world loves to bandy about the term “social,” but its concept of “social” seems to be based on what single twentysomethings do. “Social” in the sense of “families” is off the radar, as is “social” in the sense of “sharing.” It’s happy to make recommendations for individual purchases social, but shared purchases are verboten.
It’s shortsighted. If the demise of the music industry has taught us anything, it should be that walls don’t work. Sooner or later, demand will find a way around. The blistering success of itunes showed that there’s a substantial market for aboveboard, legal ways to allow people to get what they want; this isn’t just about piracy. But piracy may have to happen to make the literary version of itunes acceptable to publishers.
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