-
Brigham Young Library Tests Kindle as ILL Alternative
Gerrit van Dyk, Document Delivery Services Manager at Brigham Young University, blogs about their new initiative to loan Kindles to faculty members instead of trying to obtain new material via ILL. You can also read a brief article about this at Library Journal. Kindle, ILL, BYU
-
Simon & Schuster to Sell Digital Books on Scribd.com
I looked at Scribd.com when it first came out and dismissed it as lawyer-bait because it appeared to be so easy to upload pirated content. Just did some searches and found lots of links to questionable content, but after clicking through, every one had been removed, so apparently they’re doing a good job policing that. …
-
Do you love books or do you love reading?
Ann Kirschner has a thought-provoking piece in the Chronicle describing how she read a 1,000 page novel across four different formats; paperback, audiobook, iPhone and Kindle. You might be surprised at what she decided was the best format, at least for her. As an aside, I'm now reading my fourth book in the Stanza iPhone…
-
EFF Teaching Copyright Curriculum
The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently launched a website called Teaching Copyright "to help teachers present the laws surrounding digital rights in a balanced way." In five distinct lessons, students are challenged to: Reflect on what they already know about copyright law. See the connection between the history of innovation and the history of copyright law.…
Posted Under: Legal