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Inside the Cengage Bankruptcy 3 Jul 2013 | 11:22 am
Bankruptcy filings amount to hundreds of pages. If you’re interested in Cengage Learning’s bankruptcy and want to read the source documents start at the Cengage site on a page called “Information Abou...
A Digital Education, Part II 28 Jun 2013 | 11:06 am
I continued to be amazed by contents of the Wired 20th anniversary edition. The full extent by which the history reported in Wired over the past two decades mirrors the most important developments in ...
A Digital Education 6 Jun 2013 | 09:00 am
The 20th anniversary issue of Wired magazine is a digital education, perhaps the best one I know. Self-congratulatory anniversary issues tend to be flaccid stuff, but this one is chock-a-block full of...
A Publishing Education, Part II 3 Jun 2013 | 11:57 am
In my last post I offered a brief look at publishing training as offered through Masters of Publishing courses, in particular, the Simon Fraser University (SFU) MPub course. The Passive Voice blog lin...
A Publishing Education 15 May 2013 | 07:00 am
The courses that convey traditional publishing knowledge are well-established. They’re mainly the Masters of Publishing courses at various universities around the U.S., Canada and the U.K. They’ve bee...
Microsoft Won’t Save Barnes & Noble 13 May 2013 | 10:33 am
After a vague but vaguely credible report earlier this week from TechCrunch there’s no end to the discussion about whether Microsoft really intends to purchase the portion of Nook Media still held by ...
Money Makes Metadata Sexy 10 May 2013 | 12:48 pm
On day two of the Music Industry Metadata & Information Summit held in Los Angeles this week (run by NARM and DigitalMusic.org) Rob Weitzner laid it on the line in evoking the ever-elusive appeal of m...
Music Industry Metadata & Information Summit 7 May 2013 | 06:03 am
The conference brochure copy captured the event very well: A never-before seen collection of high-level working sessions and talks about very practical issues, this two-day summit is designed to both...
BOOKISHNESS Fail: The Case of Hugh Howey’s “Wool” 30 Apr 2013 | 08:34 am
When did the excitement begin? It was long before the print book. Volume 1 of Hugh Howey’s Wool appeared on July 29, 2011. Towards the end of 2012 a “real” publisher, Simon & Schuster, the fourth lar...
BOOKISHNESS: The Case of Murakami’s 1Q84 24 Apr 2013 | 03:02 pm
The signed and numbered edition of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 is limited to exactly 111 copies. The front and back covers are printed on Somerset, a 100 percent cotton archival paper, using a Swiss-made 1...
