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Totalitarian Toggle Switch for Digital Presses in Egypt?

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Laura Fillmore

Yesterday Mubarak’s government turned the Internet back on for Egypt; we are thankful that Egyptian voices can once more be heard around the world in real time as their political confrontations continue. Censorship is not new in the country; it … Continue reading →

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Our “Cogni-rights” to Private Thought

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Laura Fillmore

I heard a thought-provoking webcast today, offered by the Book Industry Study Group entitled “Digital Books: A New Chapter for Reader Privacy” and presented by an ACLU representative. She spoke of case law that has been passed protecting our reader’s … Continue reading →

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Saving Huck

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Laura Fillmore

The price of freedom is vigilance; this sanitized version of “Huckleberry Finn” shows that we need to be vigilant now, protest (http://www.newsouthbooks.com/pages/2011/01/10/conversations-on-newsouths-edition-of-mark-twains-tom-sawyer-and-huckleberry-finn/) its publication, and protect our recorded civilization from “e-book evanescence,” where the “real,” the permanent and paper-published book falls subsidiary to PC-driven “googlizations,” new and censored e-versions. E-censors can try and control our collective online archives, profit from the gutting, sanitizing and repackaging of art, and in so doing, alter our past, stupefy our present, and control our future. This is not a tolerable outcome for thinking people. Allowing such adulterating of our common library, on our watch, without comment, is tantamount to publishing the censored version of “Huckleberry Finn” ourselves. Continue reading →

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Self-Publishing: Threat or Menace?

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Laura Fillmore

Someone asked recently in a Book Industry Study Group (BISG) post: “Does anyone else out there, besides me, think that self-publishing should just go away and let ‘real’ publishing take over again?” Interesting question. But I don’t think that the … Continue reading →

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