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By jdupuis on June 23, 2012.
  • WSJ explains the economics behind lending Harry Potter ebooks by Amazon
  • Money Talks — How Audience Priorities and Publishing Incentives Can Lead to Unusual OA Behaviors
  • #scholpub, PeerJ and Tim O’Reilly
  • The coming revolution in STM #scholpub
  • Why doesn’t Moore’s law apply to #scholpub?
  • Who is the Steve Jobs of #scholarlypub? Whence comes the needed disruption?
  • Top 10 reasons why professors leave: elephant in the lab series
  • Whose Intellectual Property?
  • Conflicted: Faculty and Online Education, 2012
  • Mending Fences (university presses & librarians in wake of GSU decision)
  • Penguin, 3M Test Ebook Pilot at NYPL, BPL
  • Mutual Assessment in the Social Programmer Ecosystem
  • Open-Source Scholarship
  • Libraries, Consortia, Associations, & Two-Level Games
  • Libraries have all it takes to replace publishers
  • Pew: Patrons Still Don’t Know Libraries Have Ebooks | ALA Annual 2012
  • Peter Norvig On The 100,000-Student Classroom
  • Calling Timeout on Library eBook Integration
  • Stanford already thinks like a startup
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