Data-mining Google Books: Does the Reader Have To Be Human?
The data-mining of the Google books database has great promise, but who owns the data-mining rights?
The data-mining of the Google books database has great promise, but who owns the data-mining rights?
The false premise of replacement means the future isn’t destructive, just additive.
The migration from print to digital continues for book readers. Even the venerable New York Times bestseller lists are changing in response.
Publishers today fall into 3 broad categories when discussing the role of digital media, and these categories almost have the outlines of political parties. But which party is equipped to lead?
A video from practical people outside our little bubble gets it right.
The world should present itself relative to me = the emerging expectation. What that means for broadcasters and publishers? Get ready to be shared.
The New York Times wants federal regulation of Google’s editorial objectivity.
Blogs, Twitter, and YouTube feast on traditional media, but they change the agenda for millions in the meantime, as a recent Pew study shows.
Blogging platforms have morphed into web site and social media platforms. But now they’re moving into areas even farther afield, like books.
The Ethicist argues that pirating an e-book is ethical because once you buy a book in any form, you have the right to that book in every form.
Publishers may have won the pricing war, but the real struggle is now on for users’ attention. Because the iPad is not a dedicated e-book reader there are, unfortunately, many things that users can do with the device other than read books. Unlike the Kindle, where publishers have the device all to themselves iPad users will be able to surf the Web, play games, watch movies, view their photo collections, listen to music, watch TV, send e-mail, work on a presentation, or access over one hundred thousand applications that do any number of distracting things.
The subscription model is more prevalent than ever, but it’s also different in important ways. What can publishers learn and implement?
Jonathan Galassi misses the boat when he tries to argue with authors on moral grounds. Appeal to their pocketbooks.
Rupert Murdoch’s plans to charge for access to his newspapers has been widely criticized as it will cut the material out of the wider online conversation. But what good is it to be part of a conversation that doesn’t bring in any revenue?
Untangling the functions of curators and docents raises an interesting set of questions for STM publishers — about ownership, value, and the future.