Archive for November 13th, 2006
Microsoft Woos Book Publishers
Microsoft is now wooing publishers for its Live Books project, using as a tagline, “your search for new readers – and new profits – is over.” Like Google Book Search‘s publisher program, they will scan print books or will accept digital copies. And like Amazon’s Search Inside, this search will allow for discovery, but not [...]
Posted: 13 November, 2006 in Technology Issues.
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Where’s The Library In This Partnership
I just learned from Blackboard’s November 2006 newsletter that a new partnership was established with Google. My university (and probably your’s too) is a Blackboard customer, and I do like to see them establishing new ventures that expand the utility of their courseware system and its value to our faculty and students. While the two [...]
Posted: 13 November, 2006 in Higher Education, Technology Issues.
Comments: 4