You probably noticed that we recently inserted some tabs on the home page.
Its one of the great advantages of the way the web works, hierarchical (page oriented — but forking), that makes it possible for such a tabbed system to accommodate 100’s of magazines. We will need something else when we have 1,000s of titles. I guess the ‘kiosk’ will feel more like a library at that point.
At the weekend there was an interesting article in the NYTimes about the increasingly wary reaction of libraries to the Google Book Search proposition. Major research libraries are looking for a more open distribution model, without Google proprietary restrictions, and supporting the OCA (Open Content Alliance); and more are realising that they can do their own thing.
Interesting comments on this article from Michael Cairns at PersonaNonData, and from Peter Brantley at O’Reilly. Interestingly different, but they both … Keep Reading
Mark Chillingworth at Information World Review reports that Google are unlikely to extend their book search program to magazines…..
Google has damped down speculation that it will extend its Google Book Search platform to include magazines with an ISSN number. Technical difficulties with digitising magazines and a lack of existing archives were cited as the main reasons.
Chillingworth quotes Jens Redmar (Director Google Book Search in Europe) as saying:
… Keep Reading“Magazines describe a trend at the time. A historic book has
Siva Vaidhyanathan discusses how the Google Book Project threatens copyright in a short podcast, posted at First Monday (hat tip to IF Book blog). Siva says that Google is 99% certain to lose its copyright case in the courts (although he also mentions that a settlement is quite possible, so I guess he means that Google will lose or settle in a way which loses the key issue). Siva is a lawyer and he is 99% sure that … Keep Reading
Google rightly gets a pile of credit for its rapid innovatory pace. But people tend not to focus on how well Amazon is doing in the innovation stakes. Their impressive S3 has been around for a while and is very good value in providing deep infrastructure for developers. But lots is happening at Amazon. Three typical developments caught our attention in the last week.
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