Author Archives: Peter Brantley

Ebook to iPod to Hard Copy Purchase

Hugh McGuire is loving Stanza, the free ereader app for the iPhone/iPod Touch. From the Book Oven Blog: 40,000 ebook dowloads-a-day. I’ve got 35 of them sitting on my… Continue reading

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APIs, New “Transactions” and the Google Book Search Registry

At PersonaNonData, Michael Cairns discusses the Google Book Search registry, and muses whether it might support certain types of transactions through an API: How the registry may be formed is… Continue reading

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Android Barcode App Connects to Google Book Search

Google has released a nifty Android app that permits the scanning of a book’s barcode, enabling the linkage with the corresponding work in Google Book Search. From E-Reads: “Google has… Continue reading

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Election Interest Signals Print’s High-End Future

Following the sell-out of post-election newspapers, Ed Nawotka looks at the collectable future of print. From Beyond Hall 8: One immediate consequence of Obama’s victory was the boost in… Continue reading

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The Barack SlideShow

When archives are built incrementally on top of access, instead of access being born of hard labor from accumulated storage, the nature of the archive is transformed. The possibilities for an Obama Presidential Library — built from today and onwards — are transformative. Continue reading

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Vanishing Paper in Higher Education

Christopher Conway has a thoughtful essay at Inside Higher Ed on the seemingly inevitable trend towards digital text consumption: It is becoming increasingly easier to put together affordable ‘readers’… Continue reading

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