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By jdupuis on March 9, 2012.
  • The Future of the Book Business: A Classicist's View
  • Rich Books, Poor Society: Random House's Price Spike
  • Random House's eBook Price Hikes are GOOD for Libraries. IF...
  • Electronic Mini-Books That Allow Writers to Stretch Their Legs
  • How TED Makes Ideas Smaller
  • Mike Shatzkin: In Five Years, Only 17.5% of Books Bought in Stores
  • Not So Different After All, Or, Academics and Publics vs. Predatory Pricing
  • Amazon, the iPad, and the culture of reading in an age of distraction
  • INTERVIEW: Seth Godin on Libraries, Literary Agents and the Future of Book Publishing as We Know It
  • The impact of Random House price increases
  • Professionalization, Libraries, and People Who Blog
  • Your Academic Twidentity: or more about Twitter and Academic Identity
  • A masterpiece of misdirection (Hathi Trust lawsuit)
  • Is a Master's Degree in Library Science a Poor Investment? A Counter Perspective to Forbes Magazine
  • My Evolving Feelings With E-Books or Content Begets More Content (or: I Want My Content to Be a Social Butterfly)
  • New Librarianship: Librarians
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