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Posts Tagged ‘book’
Jerome Rubin, 1925 – 2012: Passing of a Pioneering Giant in Electronic Publishing History
17
Jan
At a 1989 gathering of publishing giants, Jerome Rubin made an unpopular forecast: Technology would render the book obsolete. He argued that the expansion of computerized databases would decrease the need for printed books, a pronouncement based on firsthand experience….
Publishers Hate Libraries, But We Sort Of Knew That
06
Jan
Techdirt has an interesting article on ebooks called If Libraries Didn’t Exist, Would Publishers Be Trying To Kill Book Lending? The article is a reaction to an examination of major publisher attitudes to providing ebooks to libraries as published in…
Publishers Hate Libraries, But We Sort Of Knew That
06
Jan
Techdirt has an interesting article on ebooks called If Libraries Didn’t Exist, Would Publishers Be Trying To Kill Book Lending? The article is a reaction to an examination of major publisher attitudes to providing ebooks to libraries as published in…
LLB’s 2011 Awards for Creative Alternative Uses for No Longer Needed Print Books
29
Dec
And the winners are: First Place: Constructing Public Services Desks out of pBooks Second Place: Repurposing Legal Reporter Volumes into Book Flasks (Bender Bound) Third Place: Going Green by Using Law Reporter Volume Bindings as Floor (or Wall) Covering Damn…
"What would James Madison do if he was staring down a four-hour, closed book Constitutional Law final?"
15
Dec
“I mean besides, you know, not writing the Constitution. I like to think he would have just broken down and started destroying stuff rather than confront the reality of his own intellectual inadequacy and poor post-graduate educational decisions.” Quoting again…
Friday Fun: Going Green by Repurposing Legal Reporter Volumes into Book Flasks
02
Dec
The Bender Books folks have “come up with a new twist on the book flask. Rather than mass-produce fake books, or concentrate on the classics, we want to take professional and reference books like legal reporters, medical books, cook books,…
