The USPS is squealing about financial difficulties, but is it because there’s just too much pork in the system? And what will it mean for publishers who cater to high-end information users?
The age of collaboration indicates some adjacent sources of value are emerging. Since adjacency is relative, how can publishers ensure that the central pieces remain?
The Scholarly Kitchen is a venue for open dialog. Yet a few open access advocates consistently try to intimidate people in order to squelch discussion.
With Google, Twitter, Facebook, and email doing most of the work, why are we building big, expensive, multifaceted sites? Are we being strategic? Or are we in a rut?
The 32nd SSP Annual Meeting is open for registration. Don’t miss the Scholarly Kitchen’s “Food Fight!” where bloggers come to life.
A study making the rounds about free e-books and their effect on sales has major flaws, both micro and macro.
Is this a watershed moment for independent publishing?
Penguin is experimenting with the iPad, and sharing what they’re thinking in this video demo. It’s pretty amazing stuff.
Google exerts a strong pull in the digital realm. Is it strong enough to affect the boundaries of our thinking?
The Scholarly Kitchen now has an additional Twitter feed. Follow us and enjoy our drive-thru window.
Magazines spend millions promoting print advertising but leave Web editorial underfunded. Is this the right move in the month of the iPad?
“Abundance breaks more things than scarcity does. Society knows how to react to scarcity.” Clay Shirky speaks at the opening session of NFAIS.
O’Reilly launches the “live book,” a way to extend the useful life of a book by turning hardware into software.
In a moment as important to social networking as Amazon’s one-click patent was for e-commerce, Facebook gets a patent on the news feed. But many questions remain, especially about prior art and what is a “news feed.”
A large university embraces video applications, and more than 1,000 students submit, mostly via YouTube. Here are some clever videos spotlighting some of today’s college applicants.