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Continue reading →: Go read This | The Finite Library by Willem Van Lancker
Colour me intrigued. Van Lancker is one of a trio involved in new ebook venture Oyster (good description and round up of the issues the start up will face by Martyn Daniels here). I found the section posted below in a rather interesting essay on Van Lancker’s blog. It suggests that…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Publishers Settle Long-Running Lawsuit Over Googles Book-Scanning Project – Publishing – The Chronicle of Higher Education
It seems so odd that this issue should just fizzle out the way it has. How quickly the field of play has been re-shaped in the last few years: Under the settlement, American publishers can now opt to remove their copyrighted books and journals from Google’s library project or choose…
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Continue reading →: Some MORE Thoughts On Amazon & Waterstones
The possible pit falls of Waterstones decision to link up with Amazon and sell Kindle devices in-store have cropped up again, most especially in this blog post over on the Telegraph by Mic Wright: Unless the customer buys e-books on the company’s own in-store WiFi network, Waterstones gets no cut…
