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EBooks, digital books, the future of books: An overview of current publishing experiments and strategy debates

Posted in : www.wischenbart.com    Thu, Sep 25 2008, 07:05

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

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About cultural loss through technology - a few 1000 years ago

Posted in : www.wischenbart.com    Thu, Sep 25 2008, 07:04

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

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Unwrap a book - digitally

Posted in : www.wischenbart.com    Thu, Sep 25 2008, 07:04

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

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Learn about Mp3

Posted in : articles.top501.nu    Sun, Jul 06 2008, 02:52

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...

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Ever more eBook projects in the US, France and Germany

Posted in : www.wischenbart.com    Tue, Mar 18 2008, 14:47

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

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Danish - and French and German - encyclopedias stop print editions

Posted in : www.wischenbart.com    Fri, Mar 07 2008, 04:35

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

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Harvard to go open access - with echos in Germany

Posted in : www.wischenbart.com    Fri, Mar 07 2008, 04:28

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

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