1. 18 December 2005

    1685 days ago

    All Systems Go: The Newly Emerging Infrastructure to Support Free Books

    Traditional 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

    via Kjell Olsen1685 days ago

  2. 30 September 2005

    1764 days ago

    Wired 13.10: The Trend Spotter

    Tim O’Reilly looks like a pretty cool guy.

    via Kjell Olsen1764 days ago

  3. 18 June 2005

    1869 days ago

    (Weblogs and) The Mass Amateurisation of (Nearly) Everything... (plasticbag.org)

    The 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.

    via Kjell Olsen1869 days ago

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