Tag:Content

Should academic iPad content cost less than paper texts?
Should academic iPad content cost less than paper texts?

Electronic school materials, interactive content available for use on iPads, could save thousands of dollars for schools and students. I agree the cost-savings is beneficial, but what about the other side of that coin? Authors of grade ten geology textbooks usually aren’t rockstar-rich.  Are educational publishing houses truly making enormous profits at $73 per textbook?…

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Penguin Dance – E-Books blocked/available via Libraries
Penguin Dance – E-Books blocked/available via Libraries

Here’s an interesting thread of stories regarding Penguin’s dance around the availability of eBooks for libraries. Are they in? Are they out? New ones? Old ones? Following yesterday’s news that Penguin, citing security concerns, is pulling its new e-books from libraries—and making none of them available for library lending through Kindle—many are wondering why the…

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Requirements Best Practices – Content Migration Series
Requirements Best Practices – Content Migration Series

Any large content migration can drag you into almost endless complexity – keeping up with conflicting and rapidly-changing requests and trying to make progress efficiently according to schedule. Here are four best practices to guide your approach to collecting requirements for a large content migration. When are requirements not a moving target? You need a Requirements Repository. Publish…

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Kiiac building standard NDAs – free online doc generation

I mentioned KIIAC a while ago, as it stirred up some interesting ideas for document analysis.  Now I hear of document generation provided with the same technology: ContractStandards ‘Public Content – Statistically Analyzed – Editorially Enhanced’. I find this fascinating.  I wonder whether Kingsley is marketing this for internal use at law firms? So Kingsley,…

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