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More Opportunity, Less Reward
Mike Masnick asks: Which Is Better: A Tiny Number Of Creators Hitting The Jackpot… Or Many Making A Living Wage? What the changing marketplace and lowering barriers now allows is for people who almost certainly never would have won that lottery ticket in the past to make a decent living doing what they love: creating [...]
Continue reading...Amazon, Apple, and Books Behind Bars
Friday, May 21, 2010
Kermit Hummel in “Apples and Oranges” on the Publisher’s Weekly blog: [Amazon’s] tools and tricks went a long way toward giving online book buying some of the look and feel that previously had been the domain of the well-read independent bookseller … Amazon’s device prowess with the Kindle has proven to be limited. But its [...]
Continue reading...The Opposite of ‘Open’ is ‘Theirs’
Friday, January 15, 2010
From TechDirt: There is definitely a sense that part of the reason why some folks would like to pull back on openness is to turn the internet from a platform for users towards a more controlled broadcast sort of platform. That is, it won’t be about communication, but about content delivery — and when you [...]
Continue reading...Adapt or Expire
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Says Murdoch, of Google, “If they were to pay everybody for everything they took from every newspaper in the world, and every magazine, they wouldn’t have any profits left. Bing Tries To Buy The News Of course, Google doesn’t actually “take” anything, it just points to things. I guess Murdoch doesn’t want people to know [...]
Continue reading...E-Books Designed to Fail
Thursday, October 15, 2009
From the article: Digital books locked to individual physical devices are worse than physical books. Ebook economics: Are libraries screwed? Of course, if the priority is to maximize profits and other concerns are not even a distant second, then this is the expected result.
Continue reading...Google Book Search and Privacy
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
From EFF: In the objection filed today, the coalition asks the court to require Google to create a robust privacy policy that gives readers as much privacy in online books as they have in a library or a bookstore and to ensure that the policy is enforceable and overseen by the court on an ongoing [...]
Continue reading...Doctorow’s Anti-DRM Address to Publishers
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Cory Doctorow spoke at the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference1 recently and warned against allowing platforms to determine whether or not publishers would use DRM on digital works. Ultimately, Doctorow argues against DRM altogether, and this speech is a concise and convincing presentation of that argument. His message for publishers in particular is [...]
Continue reading...Trusting Others with My Content
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Yesterday, I wrote a few notes about Zhura, an online collaborative script-writing platform. Overall, I really like it. However, what makes me hesitate to work exclusively on that platform is my concern over what happens with my content. I’m not questioning the integrity of the people behind Zhura, and their terms of use are clear [...]
Continue reading...The Public Domain
Thursday, December 11, 2008
I’ve just started reading James Boyle’s The Public Domain, thanks to recent mention on the BoingBoing blog. If Cory Doctorow is to be believed (and he is), then it’s an important book and a good read. What I’ve seen so far confirms that. I’m encouraged by Boyle’s optimism, his assertion that this issue is important [...]
Continue reading...Copyright, Confusion, and Cooperation
Saturday, June 21, 2008
I’ve been collecting posts, videos, etc. related to the copyright controversy in my Del.icio.us account, tagged copyright. As a writer, English teacher, lover of film and literature, and friend of many artists, I’m very concerned about this issue (as a survey of recent posts here should indicate). However, the more I learn, the less sure [...]
Continue reading...Free Fiction
Friday, June 6, 2008
Paul Krugman has an op-ed piece entitled “Bits, Bands, and Books” in The New York Times today about the influence of digital content on existing business models. His focus is on “books.” The basic argument is that, as it becomes easier to duplicate and distribute digital content, the ability to make money from that content [...]
Continue reading...Still Not Convinced
Saturday, May 31, 2008
I keep trying to understand the position of the “copyright abolitionists,” but so far, I’m still not convinced. Here are a few points I’m stuck on … and there are probably others as well. I think this is an extremely important issue, though, so I’ll continue to learn and think about it. Freely Sharing Ideas [...]
Continue reading...Copyright and the Control of Information
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Neil W. Netanel defines the problem newspapers face in the digital age: Newspapers thus suffer from the classic public goods problem. Producers of quality journalism invest heavily in investigating, reporting, editing, and fact checking. But once they make their work product available, they cannot prevent many others from copying from and reading their work without [...]
Continue reading...Am I Wrong?
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Distributing copies of a “Harry Potter” book, in any format, without payment, is wrong according to my best understanding and ethical sense so far. But stopping the publication of a lexicon for the world of Harry Potter — which to me is a clearly transformative kind of thing — seems equally wrong.
Continue reading...Plugging Our Ears
Sunday, March 30, 2008
This morning, Doug Noon shared a post entitled “The Fiction of Intellectual Property.” The post and the comments are thoughtful, but ultimately frustrating. What follows isn’t a direct response (hence, I didn’t leave a comment), but just some thoughts that have been kicking around my head for a while related to that post and many [...]
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In the Set of All Factors, Money Wins
This chart pretty clearly illustrates the correlation between student performance and socio-economic status: I have no interest in defending ineffective teachers, but we also have to talk honestly about what schools can and can’t do to help students. I don’t doubt that the effectiveness of a teacher is the single largest factor in determining a [...]
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The Impermanence of Digital
Simon Winchester, commenting on the fact that the Oxford English Dictionary won’t be reprinted and future editions will only be available in digital formats: The printed book is about to vanish at extraordinary speed … Books are about to vanish; reading is about to expand as a pastime; these are inescapable realities. In practical and environmental [...]
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It’s Popular because It’s Easy
Marion Brady presents two theories of learning and suggests that the one currently driving reform is based on the notion that learning is all about transferring information from books and teachers into the empty brains of students. No research says how much of what’s recalled at test time remains permanently in memory, nor to what [...]
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