Some Excellent EBook Articles
This is a new column for the newsletter. Its purpose is to highlight noteworthy, recent ebook articles.
Lowry, Charles
B., "Fair Use and Digital Publishing: An Academic Librarian's Perspective,"
portal: Libraries and the Academy, 1.2 (2001), 191-196.
(Available online
to Project Muse subscribers). A clear explanation of the possible threat
that ebooks pose to the doctrine of fair use within copyright laws.
Lynch, Clifford,
"The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World," First
Monday, 6.6 (2001) 48 pages.Available online "This
paper examines competing visions for the future of the book in the digital
environment, with particular attention to questions about the social implications
of controls over intellectual property, such as continuity of culture
memory." Includes a section "The Uncertain Future of Digital Books in
Libraries"
Peters, Thomas A., "Gutterdämmerung
(Twilight of the Gutter Margins): E-books and Libraries," Library Hi
Tech, 19.1 (2001), 50-62. (Available online
to journal subscribers)
Excellent overview of ebooks in all
of their formats and permutations.
The May 18th issue of The Chronicle
of Higher Education included the following articles on ebooks on college
and university campuses::
- Blumenstyk, Goldie, "Companies Find Academic Libraries a Key Target and a Tough Sell," A37. (Available online to subscribers)
- Blumenstyk, Goldie, "Publishers Promote E-Textbooks, but Many Students and Professors Are Skeptical," A35. (Available online to subscribers)
- Young, Jeffrey R., "A Unversity That Reveres Tradition Experiments With E-Books," A39. (Available online to subscribers)
