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Library metadata illustrates publishing’s indifference
As noted earlier, I’ve been working with the Book Industry Study Group to study the…
If You Want People to Read More …
In a post I wrote yesterday, I spent some time dissecting the idea that “people…
Solving Problems That Pre-Date Browsers
Yesterday, Digital Book World featured a guest post by Chris Rechtsteiner, chief strategist for Blue…
Helping Libraries Focus on Outcomes
Last February, I posted “Market opportunities“, which described an article about making reading work for low-literacy…
Two-Track Strategies on Lawyers and Libraries
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the North Atlantic Treated Organization (NATO) pursued a…
Libraries: Publishing’s First and Best Defense Against Piracy
At yesterday’s On Copyright 2012, sponsored by the Copyright Clearance Center, competing claims about book…
An Evolving List of Digital Readers’ Rights
Last week, author (and former agent) Nathan Bransford A Reader’s Bill of Rights“, in which…
A Borrower And A Lender Be
Now is the winter of my desk content, and I have been trying to catch…