Customers Move Online = Bad News for News in the Internet Age
Online news increases in popularity, online advertising grows, and an iPad newspaper pure-play exists — why does this all seem like bad news?
Online news increases in popularity, online advertising grows, and an iPad newspaper pure-play exists — why does this all seem like bad news?
A short film showing how earthquakes occurred sporadically, then cataclysmically, around Japan.
Rather than relying on journal prestige and bibliometric indicators, universities should consider paying experts to conduct institutional peer review, report recommends.
When you explore the revenue model of e-books vs. print books, some pricing practices make sense. But when you factor in the expenses, the logic begins to break down.
A clever marketing video from the American Institute of Physics and their UniPHY initiative.
The new Google Ebooks have made a mess of many popular classics in the public domain.
Transcribe Bentham loses its grant after six months, and has to wind down.
The earthquake and tsunami may have changed the topography of parts of Japan, but they have also strengthened our connection to our friends there.
A fascinating talk from last month’s O’Reilly Tools of Change conference, in which Kevin Kelly talks about how the proliferation of screens, the incorporation of gestures and voice, the abundance of data streams, the notion of “always on,” and so […]
A 400-year-old monarch comes out of retirement to celebrate his portrait’s restoration. And museum-goers want his autograph.
While it seems that availability drives down the quality of information goods, some exceptions make it clear this is not an unavoidable fate. Can scientific publishing beat the trend?
Alien life? Or just the will to publish, and some accomplices? While those in the field know the pecking order, those outside still get fooled.
How did “scholarly communication” become equated with open access advocacy? Is its misuse ultimately self-defeating?
A report by the AAUP outlines the business models available to university presses and makes a case for ongoing subsidies by parent institutions.
The revolution in book publishing shares some aspects with revolutions everywhere. Here’s a short slideshow by the founder of Smashwords examining current motivations for authors.