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18 December 2005
Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:07:44 GMT All Systems Go: The Newly Emerging Infrastructure to Support Free Booksvia Kjell Olsen2239 days agoTraditional textbook publishers are insane. They’re looking at the size of the US market for textbooks, which is no longer growing, trying to figure out how to keep their revenue growing and satisfy shareholders. And their solution isn’t to find new markets, to reach out to developing nations, or to cut development and distribution costs by using the new technologies that are available to all of us. Instead, their solution has been to raise prices every year and to try to kill off the used book market with gimmicks and pointless new editions. But their prices are getting so high that they’re actually shooting themselves in the foot—- no one outside of the developed world can afford their product at all, and fewer and fewer of those who can pay are willing to. Jason Turgeson, of TextbookRevolution
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30 September 2005
Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:06:00 GMT Wired 13.10: The Trend Spottervia Kjell Olsen2318 days agoTim O’Reilly looks like a pretty cool guy.
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18 June 2005
Sat, 18 Jun 2005 08:17:00 GMT (Weblogs and) The Mass Amateurisation of (Nearly) Everything... (plasticbag.org)via Kjell Olsen2422 days agoThe simple addition of structure and mechanisms for ease of publishing have made the comparable form of expression on weblogs so fluid and quick that it borders on speech. In terms of self-representation, the homepage is like a statue carved out of marble labelled carefully at the bottom where the weblog is like an avatar in cyberspace that we wear like a skin. It moves with us – through it we articulate ourselves. The weblog is the homepage that we wear.
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