Amazon book sales rise 9% faster through search inside the book feature

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Group: Amazon Book-Search Feature
Changed

Group: Amazon Book-Search Feature
Changed 10/31/2003 11:49 PM
AP via Daily Press Oct 31 2003 11:28PM ET

Amazon jams print feature on book search

Amazon jams print feature on book search 11/05/2003 03:40 PM
You can "Search Inside the Book," but the e-tailer, prompted by complaints made by an authors' group, will no longer let you print pages found by using the service.

Amazon: Sales up from book search

Amazon: Sales up from book search 10/30/2003 10:27 PM

Amazon Book Search Boosting Sales So Far

Amazon Book Search Boosting Sales So Far 10/31/2003 01:39 AM
Amazon today was excited to announce that in the first week of their full-text book searching service, books in the service sold 9% better than those not in the search. While I do think the service is great, and I'm sure it will boost sales, I'm not sure these numbers mean anything. There was definitely a big boost in usage of this service due to the ton of publicity it received. So, let's see how it's doing a few months down the road, and then it might be worth talking about. In the meantime, various authors are sti ll complaining about the service. They quote an author of a travel book who is worried that readers only want a couple of sections and would print those out and never buy the book. I guess he hasn't been ot the library lately. If people just need a couple pages out of his book, they're not going to buy the book anyway.

Amazon Offers Thinking Inside the Book

Amazon Offers Thinking Inside the Book 10/28/2003 11:09 PM

Google and Search Inside the Book

Google and Search Inside the Book 10/30/2003 10:22 AM
You probably know by now that Amazon has released the first of its A9 search offerings: Search Inside the Book. (If you don't, basically when you search on Amazon it searches the full text of thousands of books, and points you not only to the book, but to scanned copies of all the pages that match your search.) So what should Google do? This is a perfect time to cut a deal with Amazon: Amazon lets them index the text of all these books, and in return, Google sends tons of customers to Amazon's door. Putting the books in the search results wouldn't be any different than the search results already provided by Amazon, so there wouldn't be any copyright or lost-sales problems. Despite the amazingness of the Web, there's still some stuff you can find only in books. Google wouldn't be living up to their mission (to organize all the world's information) if they passed up this amazing opportunity....

The Legality Of Amazon's Search The Book
Feature

The Legality Of Amazon's Search The Book
Feature 11/11/2003 10:32 AM
Who better to discuss the legality of Amazon's new full text search feature, than a copyright lawyer who is also an author? Over at News.com, Doug Isenberg points out that if you happen to do a search on the system of "fair use" and "internet", you'll actually get the passage from his book describing how one of the determinants of whether or not something is fair use is how it impacts the sales of the book. So, while he's was a bit surprised, as an author, to find out his entire book was online via Amazon, it's probably perfectly legal. In fact, he says that the publishers probably do have the right to make that call (no matter what the Authors Guild says), though he admits that almost no one probably thought about this potential use of their work when they signed their publishing deal.

Google to take on Amazon with book
search

Google to take on Amazon with book
search 12/18/2003 02:16 AM
As this CNET story details, Google is beta testing a dead tree book search feature.

Google's Turns a New Page With Book
Search Feature

Google's Turns a New Page With Book
Search Feature 12/21/2003 12:03 AM
Washington Post Dec 20 2003 10:22PM ET

Google turns a new page with book search
feature

Google turns a new page with book search
feature 12/24/2003 08:16 PM
Google, the search engine, has ripped a page out of Amazon.com’s book, debuting a way for people to search through text that was once exclusively located ...

Google Introduces Book Search Feature
Beta

Google Introduces Book Search Feature
Beta 12/17/2003 10:38 PM
BeSpacific Dec 17 2003 9:55PM ET

Amazon expands book search to more than
titles

Amazon expands book search to more than
titles 10/29/2003 08:15 PM
Search-engine company Google said it has begun talks with book publishers to compile its own searchable database of thousands of volumes, according to ...

Amazon Launches The Ultimate Book Search
Engine

Amazon Launches The Ultimate Book Search
Engine 10/29/2003 01:14 AM
You will be able to search all text of all books on Amazon. This is a major league search move.

Kellerman's Book on Amazon

Kellerman's Book on Amazon 06/09/2004 06:57 PM
John Kellerman's incredible book, "Star Wars Vintage Action Figures", which is touted as one of the most important vintage resources ever published, is now available for purchase on Amazon.com. Previously, the book was only available directly through Kellerman's site www.frontbackbooks.com but now, through Amazon, the book should reach a larger audience and make it's way to the shelves of more hobby reference libraries!

Amazon whole book searches

Amazon whole book searches 10/28/2003 11:07 PM

Thanks to Amazon's new search-inside-books feature, you can quickly see all the books that mention "blog" in them. Scroll past the blog books and start digging deeper. There are self-help books, marketing books, programming books, and grammar books mentioning the concept in all sorts of ways. Fascinating stuff.

Fake book reviews on Amazon

Fake book reviews on Amazon 01/25/2004 07:28 PM
Richard Monson-Haefel: "If you've been in the book writing game more than a week, then you are probably aware that some authors post fake reviews to their books and their competitors books. It's an ugly truth that is rarely spoken...

Amazon Expands Into Book Printing

Amazon Expands Into Book Printing 04/11/2005 04:09 AM
Amazon entered new turf last week when it bought BookSurge, a book printing business specializing in so-called on-demand printing.

Inside 'XIII': Comic Book Beginnings

Inside 'XIII': Comic Book Beginnings 07/21/2004 11:22 PM
G4 Tech TV Jul 22 2004 3:16AM GMT

Amazon Will Stop Selling N. Ireland Book

Amazon Will Stop Selling N. Ireland Book 12/20/2003 12:25 AM
AP via Daily Press Dec 19 2003 11:37PM ET

Amazon.com Hacked Yet Again on Swift
Boat Book?

Amazon.com Hacked Yet Again on Swift
Boat Book? 08/12/2004 07:35 AM

Amazon Full-Text Book Searching

Amazon Full-Text Book Searching 10/29/2003 12:10 AM
Well, this is rather cool, wouldn't you say? A significant extension of our groundbreaking Look Inside the Book feature, Search Inside the Book allows you to search millions of pages to find exactly the book you want to buy. Now instead of just displaying books whose title, author, or publisher-provided keywords match your search terms, your search results will surface titles based on every word inside the book. Using Search Inside the Book is as simple as running an Amazon.com...

43 Folders: Request a library book...via
Amazon

43 Folders: Request a library book...via
Amazon 09/17/2004 11:58 AM
Use Amazon to reserve a book at your local library .. 43 folders .. 43folders

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Use Amazon to reserve a book at your
local library

Use Amazon to reserve a book at your
local library 09/16/2004 03:32 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: 43 Folders writes about a great little bookmarklet maker that lets you request the book you're looking at on Amazon.com from your local library.

I’ve combed through my Amazon wishlist over the past month and have been able to find almost 20 books I was going to buy—all of which have since been shuttled from SF’s many branch libraries to the cozy little outpost just beyond my front yard.

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Amazon Buys On-Demand Book Printer

Amazon Buys On-Demand Book Printer 04/04/2005 10:19 AM
Amazon.com announced Monday it has acquired BookSurge, an on-demand book printer that specializes in out-of-print and foreign language titles. BookSurge boasts a library with thousands of books that are printed to order and already available via Amazon. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Use Amazon to reserve the book you're
viewing at your local library

Use Amazon to reserve the book you're
viewing at your local library 09/17/2004 12:57 AM
Jon Udell's library lookup bookmarklet .. LibraryLookup bookmarklet generator .. Build Your Own Bookmarklet

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Amazon.com - Book Worm Turned Internet
Empire

Amazon.com - Book Worm Turned Internet
Empire 04/14/2004 06:31 AM
Forbes Apr 14 2004 11:10AM GMT

Amazon pays libel damages again over
Northern Ireland book

Amazon pays libel damages again over
Northern Ireland book 12/22/2003 09:04 AM
Third time around

Book Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition

Book Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition 06/12/2004 12:32 PM

Book Release: Mad Cow and Cattle
Mutilations Meet the War on Terror in
Brad Steel's New Book Mute

Book Release: Mad Cow and Cattle
Mutilations Meet the War on Terror in
Brad Steel's New Book Mute 03/19/2005 02:43 AM
In MUTE, author Brad Steel has created a gripping and eerily believable scenario in which the leaders of Western nations band together to do the unthinkable—convinced it is necessary, however radical. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]

Book Publishers Selling Direct - Pissing
Off Book Retailers

Book Publishers Selling Direct - Pissing
Off Book Retailers 02/13/2004 05:52 AM
One of the struggles that companies have as distribution and sales mechanisms change is handling legacy channel conflict issues. Dell became huge by selling direct to customers, but when rival Compaq started to move in that direction, their retail partners freaked out - and Compaq had to scale back their plans. It appears that book publishers are now going through the same process. They've realized that if someone is looking for info about certain books on their site, it makes sense to also offer them a chance to buy it. However, it's pissing off retailers, who don't want to hear that their suppliers are competing with them. Retailers say a reasonable compromise would be having the publishers point to the retailers, which was my first response as well. However, then it becomes a political situation of who do you link to and why? There's also the fact that this makes for a less enjoyable consumer experience. I know that, more than once, I've been annoyed at online sites where I go for info on buying a product, but when I try to buy am given a big list of retailers instead of a way to buy right away.

[foo] Tim on book sales

[foo] Tim on book sales 09/11/2004 02:39 PM
Tim O'Reilly is giving a talk on what book sales tell us about the industry. He says that .Net O'Reilly books have sea creatures on the cover because Microsoft would like to cover most of the earth's surface. Java titles are trending down (in terms of market share), but C# and PHP are on the upswing. C and C++ sales are steady. Oracle is down. MySQL is up. Reference books don't do nearly as well as tips 'n' tricks because reference works so well on the Web. In any particular thematic area (e.g., programming books), a few books do very...

Book review - Book lowers fear of
threats

Book review - Book lowers fear of
threats 12/15/2003 08:15 AM
vnunet.com Dec 15 2003 7:11AM ET

SONY PICTURES TO MAKE FEATURE FILM OF
CLARKE'S BOOK; Neither party would
disclose financial terms

SONY PICTURES TO MAKE FEATURE FILM OF
CLARKE'S BOOK; Neither party would
disclose financial terms 04/10/2004 11:23 AM
Hollywood Reporter .. Great idea!!

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ActiveWin.com Book of the Day: Inside
Intuit: How the Makers of Quicken Beat
Microsoft and Revolutionized an Entire
Industry

ActiveWin.com Book of the Day: Inside
Intuit: How the Makers of Quicken Beat
Microsoft and Revolutionized an Entire
Industry 10/29/2003 12:10 AM
It's a modern-day David and Goliath story for the business world: a company dreamed up at a kitchen table, built on explosive PC growth, and forced to battle a giant in the race to revolutionize an industry. This is the story of Intuit, creator of renowned software products like Quicken, QuickBooks, and TurboTax-the company that beat mighty Microsoft and changed the way 25 million people manage their finances. Written by Intuit veteran Suzanne Taylor and seasoned business manager Kathy Schroeder-who were granted exclusive interviews with founder Scott Cook and other key figures- Inside Intuit tells this company's original and fascinating tale for the first time. The book vividly recounts each dramatic stage of Intuit's development: from initial conception to "bet the company" investments; from strokes of marketing genius to disastrous product launches; and from battles for survival to successive victories against arch-rival Microsoft-the company no one else could beat.

Used-book sales online getting attention

Used-book sales online getting attention 07/17/2004 06:26 AM
Seattlepi.nwsource.com - Sat Jul 17, 05:03 am GMT

A Boost for Amazon's Book Sales?

A Boost for Amazon's Book Sales? 04/04/2005 01:49 PM
The online bookseller purchases a print-on-demand concern.

Derivative works and affects on book
sales

Derivative works and affects on book
sales 05/24/2004 08:10 PM

Suw Charman has a great article on The Free Culture AudioBook Project that touches on all the reasons why an author would use a Creative Commons license, and what can come out of such an exercise. The issues around business models in publishing are also covered.

Lessig's free book still racking in the
sales

Lessig's free book still racking in the
sales 07/27/2004 02:20 PM

Stanford Magazine carries a story this month about our chairman and co-founder Lawrence Lessig's book which has just entered its third printing. This is interesting because the book is freely available online for download (under a Creative Commons license), and has been downloaded about 180,000 times. On the one hand an author can give away free content for folks to remake into audio books, translations, and other formats, and the author still gets paid through traditional book sales. Amazing how that works, and works so well sometimes. [via Copyfight]

Tech Notebook: Funny what new job does
for Hurd's book sales

Tech Notebook: Funny what new job does
for Hurd's book sales 04/04/2005 11:46 PM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 5 2005 4:21AM GMT
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Of Pope John Paul II, Papal Elections
and The Teaching Company

Of Pope John Paul II, Papal Elections
and The Teaching Company 04/02/2005 12:57 AM
My kudos - again - to college lecture distributor The Teaching Company for their ever-savvy marketing. This time they’re offering two free lectures on the history and workings of papal elections: “How to Elect a Pope” and “Papal Elections: Then and Now.” As they put it in their email promotion, The Teaching Company offers free lectures to their customers “as part of our goal to provide a lifelong learning experience.” (and, I might add, to…

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P2P company sues RIAA over patent

P2P company sues RIAA over patent 09/08/2004 08:15 PM
ZDNet Sep 9 2004 0:47AM GMT

Teaching CSS: there's a long way to go

Teaching CSS: there's a long way to go 11/19/2003 01:41 AM

This email to the css-discuss mailing list does a great job of describing the confusion and frustration that still confronts traditional web developers who are only just starting out on the road to mastering CSS. When you've "got it", it's easy to forget how much of a paradigm shift it is away from old school table methods. Here's an extract:

Step Eight.

Just when you think you're settling down into a slow and steady learning curve, this is about when you start getting emails from everyone who uses your site describing all kinds of variations on your layout as it has been interpreted by their varying browsers and platforms. This stage is the most important of all, the one where you realize that CSS support is far, far more random than any HTML workarounds that you've been dealing with for the (insert personal experience here) years you've been making web pages.

(Excerpt from an email from a user of one of my sites: "the new color and stuff on the homepage looks good, except on my computor [sic] some of the pages are cut off at the bottom and have big gaps in them")

Maybe a good analogy to make here is one with Linux: both are great in principle, but if you aren't comfortable with what you are doing you can run in to a whole bunch of problems. I wouldn't recommend anyone who is still on the CSS learning curve to move a big commercial project to pure CSS, just as I wouldn't suggest a Linux newbie start hosting their own internet facing server.

At any rate, it's obvious that we as a community still have a long way to go in creating useful resources for people who want to make the switch to CSS.

Unorthodox Teaching Aid

Unorthodox Teaching Aid 06/05/2005 11:24 PM

Blogpoly: From Monopoly to Blogpoly

“It is just a game. It is fun to use the board to lay out the Blogosphere Ecosystem. It helps me to think and learn about blogging culture by transforming the original game into this version. I had to think about which company and enterprise to choose and set up first on the board. The space is limited, so I picked well known names in blogging industry. Besides the private properties, there are two public utilities--the water works and the electric company. Then I thought of ‘Wikipedia’ and ‘Creative Commons’, and then a few more, making ‘criminal’ into ‘spammer’, ‘free parking’ into ‘free hosting’. ‘Chance’ and ‘community chest’ become ‘comment’ and ‘trackback’. Fun -- yes? There is not much difference for me transforming the game than writing a poem, using similes, metaphors and symbols.” [littleoslo, via Boing Boing]

This is a nice, visual representation of bloggy and social sites/services. It could serve as an interesting conversation piece in training classes, especially tech CE events.

'Big improvement' in ICT teaching

'Big improvement' in ICT teaching 05/14/2004 04:50 AM
BBC May 14 2004 9:03AM GMT

Teaching Nanotech to Swim

Teaching Nanotech to Swim 07/24/2004 11:09 PM

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“One of the cultural icons of nanotechnology is the image of the surgical team from the 1966 science fiction movie, Fantastic Voyage, motoring along through the bloodstream of scientist Jan Benes. Everyone knows the image is about as closely related to real-life nanotechnology as Jurassic Park is to genomics-still, it’s hard to shake. The scene, and others like it have inspired a generation of researchers to pursue technologies that may one day deliver cancer-fighting drugs…

A Guide for Teaching Mathematics

A Guide for Teaching Mathematics 11/18/2003 06:59 AM

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Teaching History With Videogames

Teaching History With Videogames 08/08/2004 07:05 AM
G4 Tech TV Aug 8 2004 11:07AM GMT

Neural Network Teaching Aid

Neural Network Teaching Aid 05/25/2004 02:44 PM
Initiation

Teaching an old Walkman new steps

Teaching an old Walkman new steps 04/19/2004 09:37 AM
CNET Apr 19 2004 2:15PM GMT

Teaching union gives BNP warning

Teaching union gives BNP warning 04/12/2004 01:03 AM
The largest teaching union is accusing the British National Party of stirring up fear and hatred in schools.

Teaching Kids How to Invest

Teaching Kids How to Invest 06/28/2004 09:44 AM
Your kids have time on their side, so give them a head start in investing.

New: Teaching Music with Reason

New: Teaching Music with Reason 05/06/2004 10:07 AM
Propellerhead Software's Teaching Music with Reason combines a specially adapted version of its Reason music application with lesson-based materials for teaching music creation.

Teaching an Old Walkman Some New Steps

Teaching an Old Walkman Some New Steps 04/19/2004 01:29 AM
New York Times Apr 19 2004 5:53AM GMT

Teaching the Test in Texas

Teaching the Test in Texas 12/03/2003 12:14 PM
Teach ing the Test
As a student at Jefferson Davis High here, Rosa Arevelo seemed the "Texas miracle" in motion. After years of classroom drills, she passed the high school exam required for graduation on her first try. A program of college prep courses earned her the designation "Texas scholar." At the University of Houston, though, Ms. Arevelo discovered the distance between what Texas public schools called success and what she needed to know. Trained to write five-paragraph "persuasive essays" for the state exam, she was stumped by her first writing assignment. She failed the college entrance exam in math twice, even with a year of remedial algebra. At 19, she gave up and went to trade school.

This doesn't look good for our new, unfunded, "Leave No Child Behind" education bill. Smells like another bait and switch to me.

Search Engine Marketing Company Buys
Santa Fe, New Mexico Web Development
Company

Search Engine Marketing Company Buys
Santa Fe, New Mexico Web Development
Company 03/30/2005 04:01 AM
Trafficdeveloper LLC, a Santa Fe, NM based search marketing company, is pleased to announce they have recently purchased Panorama Point Corporation, a well known Santa Fe, New Mexico based Web Development firm. [PRWEB Mar 30, 2005]

Teaching Robots to Herd Cats

Teaching Robots to Herd Cats 04/21/2004 04:48 AM
Rescue crews would love to have dozens of tiny robots swarm disaster sites to aid in finding survivors. There's just one problem: The robots don't play well with each other. So researchers are programming teamwork into electronics. By Michelle Delio.

Teaching net straddles Pacific islands

Teaching net straddles Pacific islands 07/19/2004 04:27 AM
Lessons via satellite are helping students keep up with their education in the island nations of the South Pacific.

Maria, the Virtual Teaching Assistant?

Maria, the Virtual Teaching Assistant? 02/01/2005 10:05 PM
Maria is an assistant teacher in Statistical Interference at the University of Auckland according to a new press release from the University. It also describes some of the unique attributes of Maria. First of all, it claims she's a virtual, artificial intelligence entity "with a vocabulary of 203,000 words, a repertoire of 106,000 grammatical rules and 118,000 rules of logical interference, Maria is capable of conversation at quite a complex level." Whe she's not teaching, Maria apparently hangs out on the Internet with her other virtual friends phishing for credit card numbers. Feel free to visit them and have a chat. I decided to interview Maria and find out if she's really as smart as the story claims.

Teaching union head dies

Teaching union head dies 05/22/2004 02:18 PM
The general secretary of the country's second-largest teaching union, Eamonn O'Kane, dies in London.

Moreh - Jewish Teaching Software

Moreh - Jewish Teaching Software 09/06/2004 01:59 AM
Project team forming

Teaching Music Traders a Lesson

Teaching Music Traders a Lesson 11/12/2003 01:22 PM
The Berklee College of Music is encouraging anyone to grab and trade clips of the school's music lessons on P2P networks. The school also wants to stimulate debate about the future of the music industry in the digital world. By Katie Dean.

Teaching educators about free software

Teaching educators about free software 12/17/2003 10:45 AM
I was shocked when the middle school principal told me he could not accept free software for his journalism program; that all he was allowed to use was fresh-from-the-box commercial software. "It's school district policy," he said. "We can't even bring software from home now. It's because of the licensing. There are big fines for using unlicensed software. We can't risk it." This was an educated man, a fine teacher and administrator, but he knew nothing about the licensing terms under which Linux, OpenOffice, and many other fine programs are distributed. Neither, apparently, did his superiors in the school district administration. We need to teach them.

Women & Macs Part III: Teaching

Women & Macs Part III: Teaching 03/13/2003 10:20 AM
As part of the celebration of International Women's Day, our friends at faq-mac.com have published an interview with Reyyan Ayfer, a teacher of Computer Science at the Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey), who talks about teaching, opportunities for women at the university, and the hardware and software used...

mod_perl 2 summer teaching tour

mod_perl 2 summer teaching tour 04/19/2005 08:48 AM
stas writes "While planning vacation and teaching engagements I've discovered that I'm going to do a trip around the world in about 80 days :) During the trip I'd like to offer free mod_perl tutorials/talks to Perl monger groups in the areas I'll be in....

Cory teaching Clarion in 2005

Cory teaching Clarion in 2005 07/28/2004 05:48 AM
In 1992, I graduated from the Clarion Writers' Workshop at Michigan State University, the famed six-week "boot-camp for science-fiction writers." It was an amazing experience: my instruction from the likes of Damon Knight, James Patrick Kelly, Lisa Goldstein, Nancy Kress and Kate Wilhelm forever changed me as a writer and a person.

Therefore, it is a stupendous honour to be able to announce that I will be returning to Clarion next year, as part of the 2005 roster of instructors. My co-instructors will be Joan Vinge, Charles Coleman Finlay, Gwyneth Jones, Walter John Williams and Leslie What.

Clarion is in transition this year, as funding cuts at MSU will require a change of venue. Here are some details:

Among the options being considered are moving the workshop to another university or becoming an independent non-profit organization, along the lines of Clarion West. In either event, Clarion is likely to leave its long-time home in East Lansing and is actively soliciting suggestions for new location(s) and offers from organizations or groups willing to host the workshop. “I think it’s past time for Clarion to make a transition to a new venue and a new structure,” said Board Member James Patrick Kelly. The Clarion Board is calling on alumni and friends of the workshop to volunteer to help with the transition. “We need to work on fundraising, communications, and administration,” said Kelly. “We’re encouraging people who believe in Clarion to get involved with everything from putting together our newsletter to helping choose the instructors and lots in between.” To that end, the Clarion Board of Directors, which currently consists of Matheson, Kelly, Kate Wilhelm, Maureen McHugh, Karen Joy Fowler, Tim Powers, and former Clarion director Tess Tavormina will be looking to reconstitute itself and expand its membership.

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Home teaching 'needs more checks'

Home teaching 'needs more checks' 07/29/2004 11:34 AM
Children taught by their parents should be subject to greater scrutiny, a union has heard.

Battle on Teaching Evolution Sharpens
(washingtonpost.com)

Battle on Teaching Evolution Sharpens
(washingtonpost.com) 03/14/2005 05:36 PM
washingtonpost.com - WICHITA – Propelled by a polished strategy crafted by activists on America's political right, a battle is intensifying across the nation over how students are taught about the origins of life. Policymakers in 19 states are weighing proposals that question the science of evolution.

Another copyright experiment: U Maine's
teaching commons

Another copyright experiment: U Maine's
teaching commons 12/18/2003 02:13 AM

In another experiment with alternatives to copyright , the University of Maine 's Still Water new media lab launched a digital material commons . The Pool contains student- and faculty-created work, which may be freely used and shared:

The Pool emphasizes distributed creativity, a concept similar to a cluster computer for the media world. Users can dive into the Pool and search for visuals or audio tracks to use with their own projects, find collaborators to work with or ask for feedback from their peers.
Contributors also can propose a concept for others to implement, or respond to invitations to explore, debug, re-edit or remix existing works.

( Wired News )

Teaching union head O'Kane dies

Teaching union head O'Kane dies 05/22/2004 04:53 PM
The general secretary of the country's second-largest teaching union, Eamonn O'Kane, dies in London.

Amazon book sales rise 9% faster through search inside the book feature

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