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Controlling Context: We Are Who We Are by the Company We Keep

Whether one chooses to define ownership of content through copyright (treating creative output as an object to be owned and bought and sold by a defined party over a specified period of years), or through the European model of “moral … Continue reading

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“If I saw it in Wikipedia, it must be true!”

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 … Continue reading

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Editorial Integrity and the Sponsorship Model

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 … Continue reading

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Paradoxical Economics: Publishing in an Age of Abundance

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 … Continue reading

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