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Evan’s post last week, Do I Believe in Ebooks?: Part One, stimulated some interesting conversation in the blogosphere and I hope that Part Two, his bold recommendation, will encourage all of us to reconsider the potential of ebooks. I will be at the Tools of Change conference today and I hope some of my fellow […]
Richard L. Revesz responds to an article in the N.Y. Times Magazine.
Evan Schnittman, OUP’s VP of Business Development and Rights, wonders if he truly does believe in ebooks.
OUP author Tim Wu has been very busy writing.
Donald Ritchie takes a closer look at newspapers.
Edward Zelinksy looks at health care reform.
It’s that time of the year again. It is finally starting to get cold, and the New Oxford American Dictionary is preparing for the holidays by making its biggest announcement of the year. The 2007 Word of the Year is (drum-roll please) ‘locavore’; a trend in using locally grown, seasonal ingredients.
Evan Schnittman explains how publishing is winning the Longtail War.
Over the past century, researchers have studied business entrepreneurs extensively. They have analyzed their orientation to action, to risk, and to growth; they have explored the entrepreneur’s “personal value orientation” and “internal locus of control” and searched for clues to explain change.
Evan Schnittman sings the praises of CafeScribe.
Evan Schnittman takes the debate on royalties further by questioning the structure of advances.
Stephen Kosslyn provides some PowerPoint tips.
Collier, a Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University, argues that the G8 did not go far enough in its efforts to assist Africa.
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.
Hargittai’s book tells the story of five brilliant men born at the turn of the twentieth century in Budapest: Theodore von Kármán, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller.
On this day in history the NYSE was formed, we take a closer look.