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Category Archives: Education
Damn it, Obama, when are you gonna get this e-book thing? Check out Donalyn Miller’s literacy efforts and connect the dots!
Barack Obama drew a $500,000 advance for a children’s book, a mere five days before swearing a presidential oath. I’m happy for him. Literacy has served The First Reader well. So has technology—as shown by his fondness for BlackBerry-style devices and using the Net to raise campaign money.
Why, then, isn’t the First Reader more [...] Continue reading
Posted in E-books and all that, Education, Libraries, One Laptop Per Child, Uncategorized, e-book, e-book economics, e-book ergonomics, e-book pricing, e-book technology, e-books, e-books and other digipubs, ebook, ebook pricing, ebook publishing, ebooks, librarian, librarians, libraries + schools + tech, library
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L’odeur des livres
“The latest innovation in ebook technology isn’t digital, it’s aerosol.” Ah la fameuse odeur des livres… Combien de fois cela revient dans les discours nostalgiques des amoureux des “vrais livres”. Alors, sautez le pas, procurez-vous d’urgence la bombe Smell of… Continue reading
Posted in Education, Uncategorized
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Four short links: 1 Apr 2009
No April Fools jokes because I’m a Grinch. Instead you get architecture, research, visualization, and pain: Stacks, Readers, Staff–Building the British Library is an overview of what a momentous accomplishment the British Library was. And a reminder that no matter how gorgeous, loved, and inevitable the final product seems, there’s always a pitched battle to get it made. Architect Sir… Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Education, Science, Uncategorized, processing, visualization
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La piste de l’authentification forte
L’authentification forte, une solution pour les offres légales? L’Atelier revient sur une expérimentation en cours dans le domaine des jeux vidéo : “Pour lancer une partie, l’utilisateur devra générer un mot de passe à usage unique, ou one-time password (OTP)…. Continue reading
Posted in Bibliothèques, DRM, Editeurs, Education, Publication en ligne, Uncategorized
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War of the Thesauri
Do thesauruses fight? Continue reading
Posted in A-Featured, Dictionaries, Education, Lexicography, Reference, Uncategorized, ammon shea, dictionary, fight, literature, oed, thesaurus
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University of Michigan Press to go digital
Inside Higher Ed is reporting that:
Within two years, press officials expect well over 50 of the 60-plus monographs that the press publishes each year — currently in book form — to be released only in digital editions. Readers will still be able to use print-on-demand systems to produce versions that can be held in their [...] Continue reading
Posted in Education, Paul Biba, Uncategorized, book publishing
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La balance côté Google
J’ai lu ce matin l’article de Robert Darnton, La Bibliothèque universelle, de Voltaire à Google, dans Le Monde Diplomatique du mois de mars. C’est un texte très important, j’espère que Le Monde aura l’intelligence de le mettre à disposition sur… Continue reading
Posted in Auteurs, Bibliothèques, Editeurs, Education, Google, Publication en ligne, Uncategorized
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Je ne suis pas un pirate ; voilà pourquoi
“Tant que les conditions de protection des contenus numériques sur les réseaux ne sont pas fixés, que les choses soient claires, vous n’aurez pas nos contenus”. C’est en substance le message que tous les professionnels de l’édition (groupes, éditeurs indépendants… Continue reading
Posted in Editeurs, Education, Uncategorized
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Why Ken Brooks—ed publishing exec and IDPF board member—is sticking with DRM
"For publishers the potential upside of removing DRM is pretty limited and the potential downside is huge: that’s the reason it’s not moving." – Ken Brooks’ Tweet last month.
The TeleRead take: Ken is a senior VP with Cengage Learning—an education-oriented publishing conglomerate—as well as an IDPF board member and a speaker at the recent [...] Continue reading
The Ultimate Book Of Knowledge: Knights and Castles
An excerpt for kids. Continue reading
Posted in A-Featured, Education, Encyclopedia, History, Leisure, Reference, Uncategorized, children, knights, learning
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