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On July 29th, OUP USA President Tim Barton published a detailed overview and position statement regarding the AAP/Authors Guild Settlement with Google which can be found here (behind a paywall). The full text of his article appears below. In September 2009 Tim Barton and OUP USA General Counsel Barbara Cohen contributed to a Q & […]
It seems strange that in English we call W ‘double-U’ while in French its ‘double-V’. It’s usually written to resemble two Vs, rather than two Us. At Urbandictionary, the entry for W contains plenty of slurs against George Bush, and those who decided to have 3-Ws as the start of a web address.
The OED refers to two men; Pliny and Nicander—in its etymology for the word magnet. Pliny was a Roman who lived in the 1st century and wrote the ‘Natural History’. Nicander was a Greek, who lived 300 years earlier. It’s very useful in figuring out how past peoples thought of the world around them.
The podictionary word of the week is “truffle”.
A look at the word “kettle”.
[display_podcast] The word clique sounds French doesn’t it. Well, it was. Of course it means “a tight group of people” and is often used in a disparaging way.
Evan Schnittman tells us a tale of past marketing success that may help publishing move forward.
Evan Schnittman sings the praises of CafeScribe.
Google and libraries are doing something they need a license to do – and rather than ask for one, they are asking the copyright holders to provide a list of properties they wish to protect or not include in this program.
Consumer choice and publisher dilemma in the era of Google Book Search.
This week we present the first installment of Evan’s series on “The ABC’s of Google Book Search.” With his help, we hope to untangle the intricacies, and express our excitement, about the future of publishing.
The opening line of William MacNamara’s story “Publishers seek to play Google at its own game” ominously portends “Publishers are racing to digitize their books as they seek to counter the threat posed by the internet giant Google.”