February 2012
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January 2012
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25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore →
bookshelfporn:
Hilarious list by Open Salon for anyone who has ever thought about owning their own bookstore (eg. ALL of Bookshelf Porn’s readers).
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ARL Policy Notes: What If We Asked the Librarians?... →
arlpolicynotes:
Today, with help from our partners at the Center for Social Media at American University, and the Law School at AU, and with support from a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, ARL is proud to unveil the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries. Based on 36 hours of focus group deliberation with 90 academic and research librarians representing...
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Future of reading? 'Active fiction' lets readers... →
“What if Romeo and Juliet lived happily ever after, or Van Helsing decided Dracula wasn’t worth the trouble? In a high-tech twist on Choose Your Own Adventure, ‘active fiction’ imbues readers with precisely that kind of power.
Launching this month in Amazon’s Kindle Store, Coliloquy e-books are peppered with ‘choice points’ that allow readers to take...
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Audiobooks.com creates unlimited Netflix-like... →
“Several companies have been specializing in the downloadable content of audio books that fit easily on any mobile device that music is stored on. One such company, Audiobook.com, is setting up an all-you-can stream option starting Wednesday for a flat fee of $25 per month.
… Audiobooks.com’s major competitor Audible, which is integrated into iTunes, has similar monthly...
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To get some audiobooks, you've got to be blind →
“Generations of young people have thrilled to the crackling wit of Holden Caulfield, the teenage narrator of The Catcher in the Rye. But if you want to hear an authorized audiobook of J.D. Salinger’s seminal 1951 novel, you’ll need what amounts to a doctor’s prescription.
Salinger died in 2010, without relinquishing the rights for an audio recording. But U.S. copyright...
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Fair-Use Guide Seeks to Solve Librarians'... →
“The Association of Research Libraries might have a solution to what some librarians call ‘the VHS-cassette problem.’
Here’s the scenario: An academic library has a collection of video tapes that is slowly deteriorating, thanks to the fragile nature of analog media. A librarian would like to digitize the collection for future use, but avoids making the copies out of fear that...
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“When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put...”
– Neil Gaiman on Copyright, Piracy, and the Commercial Value of the Web (X)
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Book Value - The University of Iowa →
“English professor to explore book as art in annual presidential lecture.”
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