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Why Eric Schmidt doesn’t know how Google works | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by Tom Cheredar
According to the company’s 2013 financial filings, 83 percent of Google’s revenue came from ads, about 7 percent from Motorola which is now gone, and 10 percent from everything else. In other words, when you add up all the revenue from Google Apps Gmail, Docs, Drive, Maps, etc. together with the Android and other mobile […]
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EU allowing libraries to digitise books without permission | What’s New in Publishing
“The right of libraries to communicate, by dedicated terminals, the works they hold in their collections would risk being rendered largely meaningless, or indeed ineffective, if they did not have an ancillary right to digitise the works in question.” via EU allowing libraries to digitise books without permission | What’s New in Publishing.
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Libraries dumping of books could signal a new dark age
“In May, Sydney University announced its library “restructure”. This magnificent library, among the country’s finest, had already, a decade earlier, deacquisitioned some 60,000 books and theses. More recently there were further, unquantified and undeclared cloak-and-dagger dumpings to make space for the wifi and lounge-chairs that have given the once magical Fisher stack the look and […]
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Library Without Books Debuts at Florida’s Newest College | NDTV Gadgets
“The inaugural class of 550 students, offered scholarships covering tuition to attend a public university so new it’s not yet accredited, can access more than 135,000 ebooks on their choice of reader, tablet or laptop. A bookless library is a rarity among U.S. colleges but reflects the high-tech ambitions of the university in Lakeland, Florida. […]
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Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds | Books | The Guardian
the performance was largely similar, except when it came to the timing of events in the story. “The Kindle readers performed significantly worse on the plot reconstruction measure, ie, when they were asked to place 14 events in the correct order.” via Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds | Books | […]
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Amazon Kindle post reveals what’s behind its feud with Hachette.
“In its post, Amazon makes a mathematical plea for why most e-books should be priced at $9.99, instead of $14.99 or $19.99, given that they don’t require printing, storage, or transportation. The company says it’s found that e-books priced at $9.99 sell 1.74 more copies than when they’re priced at $14.99. If you carry that […]