Monthly Archives: October, 2008
Frankfurt Book Fair (II): Ebook Platforms
As I mentioned in my previous post, at the Frankfurt Book Fair two weeks ago Ebooks were certainly the buzzword. Interestingly enough, whilst everyone is talking about Ebooks, there are … Continue reading
Dodo or Dog Conference
Following the metaphor dodo or dog (an extinct bird versus man’s best friend), the future of the scholarly book in the digital age was examined at the Dodo or Dog … Continue reading
Frankfurt Book Fair (I): Free Ebooks, Copyright and Piracy
As I visited the Frankfurt Book Fair last week, Ebooks and Ebook services seemed to be omnipresent. From E-readers to E-publishing experiments and from POD and software services to E-braries, … Continue reading
Open Access and eBooks
One of the most heard objectives against eBooks (let alone against Open Access eBooks) is that nobody is going to read a whole book from a screen. Especially in the … Continue reading
Open Access Day
Today (October 14th) is the very first Open Access Day. From the Press Release: “SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), … Continue reading
Content is Context, Content is Conversation
Symposium Nederland Kennisland (02-10-08) http://klstudio.wik.is/ Kennisland (Knowledgeland http://www.kennisland.nl/) is an independent Dutch think thank with the overall goal to make Holland smarter. They try to achieve this goal … Continue reading
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