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Check it Out with Nancy Pearl: New Year's Resolutions 2012
Resolutions! It’s the first column of the New Year, and we all know that with new years come New Year’s resolutions. If you had a chance to make literary, library, or publishing resolutions for 2012, what would they be? more...

PW's Week Ahead Podcast: 2/17/12 In the newest episode of our podcast, produced with Copyright Clearance Center, PW's Andrew Albanese and Rose Fox discuss the recent Tools of Change conference and some upcoming books to watch for.		The PW Week Ahead Podcast Archive Listen to past episodes of our podcast, produced with Copyright Clearance Center, featuring news and commentary about publishing, copyright, new books and authors.

Survey Says Library Users Are Your Best Customers In the Internet age, there’s been no shortage of talk about the future of libraries, and much speculation about where libraries fit in the increasingly digital-rich media market for American consumers. Now, there is data. This month Library Journal released the first issue of a quarterly publication called Patron Profiles. Based on surveys and data collected from library users across the country, the first issue—on libraries and e-book usage—indicates that libraries are a powerful economic engine for the book business. more...		Here Comes Clay Shirky For all the talk of disruptive technology in the publishing and media worlds, it isn’t easy to be an optimist these days. But it’s hard not to notice that Clay Shirky, one of the digital age’s most original, engaged thinkers, is remarkably sanguine about the prospects of new media—especially for a man so immersed in discussing its problems. PW caught up with Shirky at his NYU office to talk about his new book, the state of the digital debate, and of course, the changing world of publishing. more...

The Googlization of Books In his latest book, The Googlization of Everything: And Why We Should Worry, Vaidhyanathan explores Google’s increasingly dominant role not just online but in our lives. "What is most fascinating about Google to me is its effect on us," he tells PW. " In fact, the critical faults of the story I tell are ours, because we've become so addicted to getting more stuff, faster, for free." more...		Brewster's Millions: ALA Preview 2011 Libraries have long helped prepare the way for e-books. But now that the consumer market for e-books has taken off, are libraries in danger of being marginalized? PW catches up with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, who urges librarians not to let the promise of vendor-managed, licensed access to e-books turn libraries into agents for a few major corporations. " more...

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AAUP Opposes Research Works Act, FRPAA

By Andrew Albanese 02/15/2012 @ 12:00AM

The Association of American University Presses this week said it does not support the Research Works Act, and also voiced opposition to a competing bill, Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), which would mandate public access.

Could Backlash to Research Works Act Boost FRPAA’s Odds of Passage?

By Andrew Albanese 02/14/2012 @ 12:00AM

Congress last week introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2012 (FRPAA), a bill that would mandate free public online access to taxpayer-funded research for all federal agencies with extramural research budgets over $100 million.

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The ToC Perspective: A Call for a Unified E-book Market

By Joe Wikert 02/03/2012 @ 07:00PM

Introducing an occasional column from the general manager, publisher and a chair of O'Reilly Media's TOC conferences

O'Reilly Media's general manager, publisher and a chair of the TOC conferences, Joe Wikert, takes on the current e-book market in his first column for PW.

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Academic E-Books: Innovation and Transition

By Peter Brantley 02/03/2012 @ 12:00AM

There is a growing crisis in the academic monograph marketplace, but organizations are rallying to devise new solutions.

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Fair Trade: Random House Will Raise Library E-book Prices, But Commits to E-Book Lending

Andrew Albanese 02/02/2012 @ 12:00AM

At a meeting with ALA leaders this week, Random House officials said the company will raise the price of e-books to libraries, but that it will continue to make its digital titles available to lend.

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With A Little Help: Digital Lysenkoism

By Cory Doctorow 01/27/2012 @ 07:00PM

DRM, “social DRM,” and the madness of publishers

Talking with the lower echelon employees of publishing reminds me of a description I once read about the mutual embarrassment of Western and Soviet biologists when they talked about genetics. Soviet-era scientists were required, on pain of imprisonment, to endorse Lysenkoism, a discredited theory of inheritance favored by Stalin for ideological reasons.

Content / e-books

As ALA Midwinter Closes, A Crucial Moment Looms For E-Books

Andrew Albanese 01/24/2012 @ 12:00AM

As the ALA Midwinter Meeting wound down yesterday, PW caught up with ALA executive director Keith Fiels for an exclusive talk about e-books, and the librarians’ upcoming meetings in New York.

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At ALA Midwinter, Librarians Hear Messages of “Empowerment”

Andrew Albanese 01/23/2012 @ 12:00AM

When Molly Raphael became president of the American Library Association in 2011, she unveiled an agenda that focused on empowerment—and at the ALA 2012 Midwinter Meeting in Dallas, TX, “empowerment” has been an overarching theme.

ALA Midwinter 2012: Panel Tells Librarians to Go Forth and Digitize

Andrew Albanese 01/23/2012 @ 12:00AM

Despite recent lawsuits over e-reserves, digital archives, and orphan works, at a two-hour program at ALA Midwinter, panelists urged librarians to go forth and digitize, that they already have the sturdy legal cover they need to proceed: fair use.

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Pew Says Ownership of Tablets and E-Readers Doubled Over the Holidays

By Peter Brantley and Andrew Albanese 01/22/2012 @ 12:00AM

The Pew Internet and American Life Project today released a "mini-report" on the adoption of tablets and e-readers that the number of Americans owning e-reader devices jumped from 18% to 29%, meaning that nearly 1 in 3 Americans now owns a device.

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Explosive Eighteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel	Audio Fiction
Killing Lincoln (unabr.)	Audio Nonfiction
The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus #2)	Children's Fiction
Elf on the Shelf	Children's Picture Book
Hunger Games	Children's Series & Tie-ins
Blue Exorcist, Volume 3	Graphic Novels
Private: #1 Suspect	Hardcover Fiction
Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America	Hardcover Nonfiction
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Mass Market Paper
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close	Trade Paper