Articles on Computers & Internet

Will Content Ever be Profitable?

THE CURRENT WORRIES

1. Content Suppliers

The Ethos of Free Content

Content Suppliers is the underprivileged sector of the Internet. They all lose money (even sites which offer...

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The Future of Electronic Publishing

UNESCO's somewhat arbitrary definition of "book" is:

""Non-periodical printed publication of at least 49 pages excluding covers".

The emergence of electronic publishing was supposed to...

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The In-credible Web

http://www.webcredibility.org/

People are conditioned to trust written words, not to mention images. "I read it in the paper" or "As...

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The Territorial Web

The Net was supposed to dissolve anachronistic national borders and cultural boundaries. It was expected to vitiate distance - both physical and mental. It was hailed as the invention that will...

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A Brief History of the Book

"The free communication of thought and opinion is one of the most precious rights of man; every citizen may therefore speak, write and print freely."

(French National Assembly, 1789)

I....

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The Affair of the Vanishing Content

http://www.archive.org/

"Digitized information, especially on the Internet, has such rapid turnover these days that total loss is the norm....

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Revolt of the Scholars

http://www.realsci.com/

Scindex's Instant Publishing Service is about empowerment. The price of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals has...

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The Internet And The Library

"In this digital age, the custodians of published works are at the center of a global copyright controversy that casts them as villains simply for doing their job: letting people borrow books for...

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