We’ve beaten this drum before, so just a quick summary. The publishing industry has yet to take full advantage of one of the greatest opportunities offered by social networking tools: the…
photo: Mike Gifford via flickr In the past year there have been a number of studies calling in question the usefulness of small-scale wind turbines. Not only in many cases are the…
Google Books engineering director Dan Clancy was interviewed recently and he talked about Google’s vision of the future. He said that that the settlement was looking at the past, but in the…
This fall, a number of colleges will begin testing a version of the Kindle in classrooms — partly with sustainability in mind.
“As it prepares to become a major digital book seller, Google is striking partnerships with brick-and-mortar stores and trying to dispel concerns.”
Is it just me, or is Google Editions about to shake up the ebook market in a MAJOR way? (Don’t even get me started on if/when Apple gets in the game.)
Reed Business Information (RBI) will try to sell the trade magazines Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and School Library Journal, according to a PW report.
The article also notes…
Analog (old) media is all about managing scarcity by controlling distribution, the net effect of which is to enable publishers to price access to their “toll roads” as they see fit.
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Matthew Stangoni An agricultural field in Western Kenya.
As policymakers prepare for the Copenhagen conference on climate change in December, the proposed program for reducing emissions from…
A method of financing solar panels or energy efficiency improvements through higher property taxes is now available in nine states.
