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NewsLink Spotlight |
| What's New With the Top 3 Ebook Vendors |
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by Brandi Scardilli
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| On the surface, reports show that readers are buying less and borrowing more--and yet Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo (now Rakuten Kobo, Inc.) continue to release new e-readers and put effort into selling ebooks. Let's look at the press releases each company has provided this past year to take the temperature of their ebook programs. |
Weekly News Digests |
| Blackboard Helps Educators Better Understand Student Performance |
| Blackboard partnered with Chalk.com to offer K-12 educators a digital gradebook and portfolio, which will give teachers and parents better insights into students' performance. |
| Kindle Direct Publishing Unveils Paperback Option |
| Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) program added the ability to publish paperback books in addition to Kindle ebooks on Amazon websites in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. |
| CompTIA Combats Cyberthreats With New Certification |
| CompTIA introduced a new vendor-neutral certification, CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CSA+), which is the first to emphasize behavioral analytics when assessing cyberthreats. |
| Coders Preserve Climate Data |
| According to WIRED, a group of University of California-Berkeley community members is saving federal climate data on nongovernmental servers. |
| SAGE Journals Get Updated Platform |
| SAGE created a new platform for SAGE Journals that features enhanced author tools, more intuitive navigation, improved search functionality, and ease of use across devices. |
NewsBreaks |
| Creative Commons Test Drives New Search Tool |
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by Corilee Christou
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| Copyright has morphed into a "copywrong," thanks to a little mouse named Mickey. ... When the time came for this little guy to enter the public domain, making him free for all to use, Disney and its powerful lobbyists convinced Congress to lengthen the term of copyright. This law, introduced in 1998 and known as the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) ... extended copyright to such a great degree that no new published works will enter the public domain until 2019. |
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