Despite the fact that the Google Books settlement was not approved, Google’s mass digitization has forever transformed the landscape of publishing, libraries, and the way we think about information.
Major social media plays in science hit the rocks, as hype hits reality and the culture of science.
Amazon continues to leverage its platform advantages into the e-reading space — this time, with a smart library-oriented move and an equally smart move toward advertising and sponsorship.
Algorithmic pricing on Amazon creates a book worth millions, and the problem seems to be repeating itself.
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Does thinking about technology as something new and different gerrymander strategies and initiatives in unhelpful ways? Maybe we need to accept that the future has arrived for our users.
The abstract is an element of scientific papers we take for granted. Is that a good idea in a networked information environment gravitating to usage-based measures?
Blackboard is the target of speculation about a takeover, the WSJ reports. What might this mean?
Humans are better at socializing than the social Web’s design allows for. But new levels of sophistication may be coming.
The human capacity to make written symbols is truly astounding.
Even when a paper is retracted, free copies of articles still persist in institutional repositories and public websites. Authority for the accuracy of scientific record must keep pace with open access. Fortunately there is a solution.
With escalating costs and questions about results, higher education is attracting skepticism from an Internet mogul who knows a bubble when he sees one.
Education reform requires educators acting as media players and change agents. Can it happen?
The social Web is creating new ways to do important things — like find things, learn things, and trust things. It’s disruptive in the purest sense.
Thinner, lighter, faster, better — this time, I think we’ll keep it.