Deseret Book has released free digital versions of 8 books. Check out http://deseretbook.com/free. Part of what we are trying to study is how “free digital downloads” affect “physical print sales.” I’ll keep you posted.

I really like Chris Anderson’s books Free and The Long Tail. For me there is a small paradox between the two that I have been wanting to write about for some time. Let’s look at this from the perspective of a book publisher. This publisher has read The Long Tail and is aware that there [...]

My advisor David Wiley is a guest blogger at the Chronicle this month and posted today about some of our research.  You can read the article here.

I recently finished the book Innovation Happens Elsewhere by Ron Goldman and Richard Gabriel (available as a free download at http://www.dreamsongs.com/IHE/). (Got to love people willing to share digital versions of their books). The book is about using open source and getting smart people outside of your organization to help do your work. I’m just [...]

One of the books that has really affected my thinking is Free Culture. In this book the author (Lawrence Lessig) points out that books have two lives He says, “Here is an idea that we should more clearly recognize. Every bit of creative property goes through different ‘lives.’ In its first life, if the [page [...]

I stumbled across a very interesting blog post by Robert J. Sawyer that was written about a year ago.  I read through the post and all of the comments and enjoyed seeing the exchanges that took place. One part of the post that I was particularly interested in was Sawyer’s analysis of the financial benefits [...]

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