Warnings of ‘internet overload’
BBC Click investigates claims of the internet collapsing under pressure from the YouTube generation.
Sourced at BBC News | Technology
Filed Under: [The Web]
Posted on 23 Jun 2007 around 9am
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We bring you the latest news noticed on the web. News that we think is relevant for publishers and teachers and students of publishing.
The book publishing process - why does it cost so much?
In a three part series, Dave Young provides a nice explanation of the book publishing process starting from the idea for a book to the point of sale, pointing out the parts which entail costs.
Sourced at The Publishing Horizon
Filed Under: [Book Publishing]
Posted on 05 Apr 2007 around 2pm
Digital Publishing is Publishing
From the Booksellers Association: We hear of the latest salvo in the battle of the omnivores versus publishers in today’s Telegraph. The report states that publishers are converting thousands of titles in order that they mitigate the threat of the likes of Google stealing them or capturing the ebook market when it finally takes off.
If we step back and remove the emotion of digitisation, we can clearly see it's not about ebooks. Neither is it about which ebook technology will prevail. It is also not about the consolidation of digital content onto the mobile phone and MP3. It's about the wake up call to publishers.
Digital publishing is publishing ...
Sourced at Booksellers Association
Filed Under: [Technology • The Web]
Posted on 30 Mar 2007 around 4pm
Playing Nice With Google
Some words from Evan Schnittman, OUP's Vice President of Business Development and Rights for the Academic and USA Divisions on the OUP (US) Blog about Google:
Snip --- What we publishers have come to realize is that Google and friends have opened up the world to our content by showing us that discoverability and access leads to interest and opportunity. Every major media company is now thinking they need to figure out their share of the digital space.
Filed Under: [Books • Publishers • The Web]
Posted on 28 Mar 2007 around 5pm
German media giant has its eye on Thomson Learning
One of Germany's largest media companies, Bertelsmann is considering the acquisition of Thomson Learning, which the Thomson corporation put up for sale late last year because it feels the academic electronic content and text book publisher does not fit with...
Filed Under: [Publishers]
Posted on 23 Mar 2007 around 6pm
BBC axes £150m online learning service
The BBC has closed down its ambitious £150m online learning resource following complaints from commercial rivals.
Filed Under: [Education • Media • The Web]
Posted on 19 Mar 2007 around 6pm
Elsevier agree Open Access terms with Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, founded by the famous aviator, engineer, industrialist and film producer, have agreed with Elsevier to make author manuscripts of articles published in Elsevier and its Cell Press journals freely available within six months of publication...
Filed Under: [Education • Journals]
Posted on 19 Mar 2007 around 6pm
Reed Looks for Harcourt Buyer
Reed Elsevier announced this morning that it is looking for a buyer for Harcourt Education, which the company acquired six years ago as part of its $4.5-billion acquisition of Harcourt General.
Sourced at Publisher's Weekly Latest News
Filed Under: [Publishers • Text Books]
Posted on 16 Feb 2007 around 9pm
Penguin plans ‘wiki-novel’
The publisher has announced an experimental collaborative online novel which everyone can write and edit.
Sourced at Guardian Unlimited Books
Filed Under: [Publishing • News • Publishers]
Posted on 02 Feb 2007 around 10pm
Gates and British Library put da Vinci in code
Two notebooks that document the thoughts of Leonardo da Vinci's scientific investigations are now available online following a landmark collaboration between the British Library (BL) and Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates.
Filed Under: [Education • Publishing History]
Posted on 02 Feb 2007 around 10pm
Literature without books: Vic Keegan considers the prospects for online publishing
As Google sets to work making vast numbers of books available to download in their entirety, Vic Keegan considers the prospects for online publishing.
Sourced at Guardian Unlimited Books
Filed Under: [Publishing • The Web]
Posted on 24 Jan 2007 around 8pm
Access to Over 13 Million Digital Documents
ScientificCommons.org is an initiative of the Institute for Media and Communications Management at the University of St. Gallen. It indexes both metadata and full-text from global digital repositories. It uses OAI-PMH to identify relevant documents. The full-text documents are in PDF, PowerPoint, RTF, Microsoft Word, and Postscript formats. After being retrieved from their original repository, the documents are cached locally at ScientificCommons.org. It has indexed about 13 million documents from over 800 repositories.
Filed Under: [Publishing • Journals • Open Source • Research]
Posted on 21 Jan 2007 around 11am