Illustrating the M. C. Escher–like nature of information authentication on the Net, here’s an e-mail we received from one of our authors, Professor Gregory J. E. Rawlins, whose latest book on technology is in progress and online: so i’m doing (yet another) rewrite of the book and i’m in the second chapter, part of which is on slavery. →
Some online publishers searching for alternative business models to the traditional one, where the readers pay for content, arrive at the sponsorship and advertising models, where private interests pay the publisher to make content available for free. This is in return for some benefit to the sponsor, which may involve a sponsor logo or pop-up →
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. —Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Back when books were things, it was easier to measure success or failure based on quantifiable metrics like print runs, sales, years in print, citations. Paper books →