Joint professor at Berkeley's School of Law and School of Information and director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, Pam Samuelson offers a critical viewpoint about the negative consequences of Google Books for academic researchers and libraries.
Editor Jason Epstein sees a future in which the infrastructure of print publication is entirely dismantled despite resistance from the publishing industry.
A Reed College study reports that despite impeding comprehension and difficulty of use, eReaders show potential due to cost savings and lightweight size.
The Literary Platform website showcases how traditional publishers and developers are experimenting with multimedia formats for readers.
A new Ithaka survey reveals that the library is no longer the starting point for many academic researchers.
The Library of Congress will archive all public tweets, preserving the words and emotions of the online community for history.
The "unconference" is a popular alternative to the traditional format of the academic conference, making use of blogs to generate discussion ideas for participants and developing collaborative documents that can become widely used resources for scholars.
iAnnotate makes it easy to highlight, underline, comment and circle text in PDF documents, somewhat eliminating the awkwardness cited by researchers as an impediment to reading on an iPad.
"Distance reading," done by computers rather than by humans, tracks topically related terms in huge collections of digitized texts to analyze literary material.
Co-ment allows colleagues to collaborate remotely on writing projects, to share feedback, and to compare different versions of documents.
