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By jdupuis on February 25, 2012.
  • e-Books: Why Bother
  • Truly moving literature: Enhanced eBooks
  • Science Finds a Better Way to Teach Science
  • The Future of Science Publishing
  • Introducing Download the Universe: A new science ebook review
  • Canadian universities sign bone-stupid copyright deal with collecting society: emailing a link is the same as making a photocopy, faculty email to be surveilled
  • Culture is an echo chamber
  • California Dreaming (comment on value of libraries in crossing digital divide)
  • Heavy Hangs The Bandwidth That Torrents The Crown
  • The Open Access Irony Awards: Naming and shaming them
  • Libraries and publishers don't have symmetrical interest in a conversation
  • The state of the eBook, early 2012
  • Github for science? Shouldn't we perhaps build TCP/IP first?
  • Information Literacy in a World That's Too Big to Know
  • Publishers hate you: readers' notes as a "derivative work"
  • The Tools They Are a Changin': The Ins and Outs of TOC NYC
  • What's the Real Value of a Scholarly Publication? Part I
  • Amazon Pulls Thousands of E-Books in Dispute
  • Why Amazon's Kindle Battle With IPG Matters
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