At BookcampTO I got a lot of attention during the Kindle, Schmindle talk when I brought up changing attitudes towards print books in higher education. The reason I gave was that I downloaded books under Creative Commons, GFDL and free-as-in-beer licenses. I’d like to give more context and a few examples of the textbooks I’ve [...]
Image via Wikipedia Hugh McGuire is talking. He starts off with his introduction to LibriVox. It’s a project to make free audiobooks by reading public domain books aloud. Asked a publisher about how communities affect her business. Answer is wish she knew. They have a website but it’s not enough. Now they have a Facebook [...]
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Speaker is Evan Leibovitch. He works at York and was given the mandate to make research more accessable. From the crowd: What is DRM? Answer from the crowd: It was used in the music business and it’s collapsing. Gave the intro to the Kindle. Brings down books to $9.95. [...]
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