Yesterday I wrote about ebooks and whether offering them boosts sales of print books. Today, as luck would have it, I saw in my Chronicle email that textbook piracy is becoming more common on college campuses through websites like Textbook Torrents and Scribd. What surprises me is the audacity of some people who set up [...]
This interesting question raised by David Pogue asks whether an electronic version of a book will boost sales of print versions of books. I don’t really know since I don’t have a book, electronic or otherwise, to sell. I kind of think the selling of books is similar to musicians who want to sell their [...]
As I read “E-books in higher education: nearing the end of the era of hype?” by Mark Nelson a couple of things came to mind. First, I think that ebooks in higher ed are a good thing. I know I wouldn’t have minded trading in lugging around multiple copies of books for a [...]
Recently, libraries have started to add Google Book search results to their catalog. This is a good thing, in my opinion. I’m not going to get into the copyright debate on whether Google should be scanning books that are not in the public domain. I am, however, going to suggest that the [...]
I’ve written a lot lately about Google Books and its digitization project. As luck would have it, the University of Michigan recently released information that stated Google has scanned 1 million of the 7.5 million books in the University of Michigan’s library. Overall I think this is a good thing. I am [...]
