http://booksandpublishing.com Books and Publishing - CommonGroundPublishing weblog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:48:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Google, copyright, and our future From Lawrence Lessig at The New Republic... In early 2002, the filmmaker Grace Guggenheim--the daughter of the late Charles Guggenheim, one of America’s greatest documentarians, and the sister of the filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, who made An Inconvenient Truth-decided to do something that might strike most of us ... http://booksandpublishing.com/2010/03/for-the-love-of-culture/ Imagining the future of libraries By Lisbet Rausing at The New Republic... Imagine a new Library of Alexandria. Imagine an archive that contains all the natural and social sciences of the West—our source-critical, referenced, peer-reviewed data—as well as the cultural and literary heritage of the world's civilizations, and many of the world’s ... http://booksandpublishing.com/2010/03/toward-a-new-alexandria/ From Patricia Cohen in the New York Times: Among the archival material from Salman Rushdie currently on display atEmory University in Atlanta are inked book covers, handwritten journals and four Apple computers (one ruined by a spilled Coke). The 18 gigabytes of data they contain seemed to promise future biographers and literary ... http://booksandpublishing.com/2010/03/2045/ The Italian government has signed a deal with Google to put the contents of two national libraries on the internet. From BBC News... Up to one million antiquarian books - including works by Dante, Machiavelli and Galileo - will be scanned and made available free on Google Books. There is no copyright issue ... http://booksandpublishing.com/2010/03/google-to-digitise-ancient-italian-books/ The most recent issue, Volume 7, Number 2, of The International Journal of the Book includes: Corduroy Mansions in Cyberspace: Online Novels and Their Implications to Print Publishing and the Traditional Novel by Jaime Robles. Features of Scholarly Publishing in Small Multilingual Publishing ... http://booksandpublishing.com/2010/03/latest-book-journal-papers/ The most recent issue, Volume 7, Number 2, of The International Journal of the Book includes: Is Bibliography Reactionary? by Vincent Giroud. If u txt 2 much, duz it mean u cant spell: Exploring the Connection between SMS Use and Lowered Performance in ... http://booksandpublishing.com/2010/02/recently-published-in-the-book-journal-2/ [caption id="attachment_2030" align="alignright" width="190" caption="Steve Jobs discussing the iBooks application for the Apple iPad at its debut in San Francisco, January 27, 2010 (Tom Avelar/Bloomberg/Getty Images)"][/caption] From Jason Epstein in the New York Review of Books: The transition within the book publishing industry from physical inventory stored in a warehouse and trucked ... http://booksandpublishing.com/2010/02/publishing-the-revolutionary-future/ The second issue of Volume 7 of The International Journal of the Book is now available. Volume 7, Number 2 includes: Travels with More’s Utopia: Provenance Discovery through Marginalia and Annotations by Robin Smith. Young Adult Fiction in 1980s (West) Germany The ... http://booksandpublishing.com/2010/02/book-journal-volume-7-number-2-now-available/ From Miguel Helft in the New York Times: In another blow to Google’s plan to create a giant digital library and bookstore, the Justice Department on Thursday said that a class-action settlement between the company and groups representing authors and publishers had significant legal problems, even after recent revisions. In a 31-page ... http://booksandpublishing.com/2010/02/justice-dept-criticizes-latest-google-book-deal/ [caption id="attachment_2005" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com"] [/caption] From Eliot Van Buskirk in Wired.com's Epicenter: Now, the hard part. Before it existed, Apple’s iPad was infused with the wishful expectations of a thousand hopeful constituencies, none with more at stake than a host of media businesses still grappling to find a killer app in ... http://booksandpublishing.com/2010/01/can-apple%e2%80%99s-ipad-save-the-media-after-all-read-more-httpwwwwiredcomepicenter201001can-apples-ipad-save-the-media-after-allutm_sourcefeedburnerutm_mediumfeedutm_campaig/