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By jdupuis on April 30, 2012.
  • Why DRM is a Toothless Boogeyman, Ebooks are like Video Games, and Amazon is the Winner
  • Shaking Up the Lecture
  • Geist: The most expensive copyright insurance policy in Canadian history
  • Open Letter Regarding the Agreement Reached Between Access Copyright and the AUCC
  • The Library of Utopia (Google Book Search is floundering)
  • Stop Telling Students to Study for Exams
  • What Makes a Book a Book?
  • What's Required for eBooks to Carry the Day
  • The innovation we need to see before eBooks can completely replace pBooks
  • Services More Meaningful Than Ebooks
  • What Your Klout Score Really Means
  • For Books, Against Boilerplate (About NYPL's renovations)
  • Pinning Down a New Medium (Pinterest as a marketing tool)
  • Cutting Computer Science Departments While Teaching More Students to Program?
  • "Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley's Brogrammer Problem
  • Why Amazon Will Be the Good Guy
  • Elsevier Release $9.99 App for Latest Organic Chemistry Textbook
  • Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity
  • Pineapples, Robot Graders, and Standardized Testing in Higher Ed
  • Why Aren't Our Students Angrier?
  • Gradhacking Pinterest
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