Within only a few weeks, I came across all sorts of news refering to big publishing conglomerates and small indiependent houses who launch or announced  new approaches to putting books onto the internet. And at the same time, a new debate about eventual... http://www.wischenbart.com/blog/?p=42

The revolving debate about what culture may lose as books migrate from a shelf onto a screen - or if digitizing books is a good thing, or just plain vil - I was amused to come across this story related by Plato in Phaedrus 275 A: "When the go... http://www.wischenbart.com/blog/?p=40

Here you can find Paulo Coelho's new megaseller "The Witch of Portobello" - for free. Oh, and yes, it is entirely legal. Courtesy of Harper Collins, Coelho's US publisher. Why they give away Coelho's new book digitally? In order to sell it on pape... http://www.wischenbart.com/blog/?p=39

Mp3 The relative ease of transmitting music files over the Internet has generated an intense debate concerning the proper role and scope of copyright in a digital environment. By far the most popular method of digital distribution, the MP3 file fo... http://articles.top501.nu/2008/07/06/l...

News come in regularly about just another project aiming at exploring possibilities and perspectives of books on digital platforms. At the Paris Salon du Livre, the French Minister for Culture and Communication, Christine Albanel, said that "we mu... http://www.wischenbart.com/blog/?p=49

After the popular French encyclopedia "Quid" and the very prestigious German "Brockhaus" have decided to stop their paper editions in 2008, the same news was given by their Danish colleagues at Gyldendal. "The Danish Encyclopaedia (Den Store Dansk... http://www.wischenbart.com/blog/?p=47

When Harvard Librarian Robert Darnton announced in February 2008 that his prestigious institution is going 'open access' with most of its scolarly publications, this has caused echos and scepticism in Germany where science publishers still either ten... http://www.wischenbart.com/blog/?p=46