E-conomics of e-texts

Campus Review, Australia

Online publishing is on the move. While some would like to see it go to open source, others are lining up to take their cut, says Beverley Head. The cost of textbooks is now so high that students should be provided with a $1000 loan at the beginning of ...

London Book Fair '09: Quieter But Productive

Publishers Weekly, NY

Among the most important findings for publishers: having access to the e-texts had no impact on print sales. Sony, which sponsored the Digital Zone and Theatre at the edge of the exhibit floor, has had the dedicated reading device market to itself in ...

At London Book Fair, Panel Says Two-Year British E-Textbook Study ...

Publishers Weekly, NY

Among the most important findings for publishers is that having access to the e-texts had "no impact" on print sales. While the e-texts were "heavily used," figures showed that print sales, anaylzed using Nielsen statistics, and coupled with a formula ...

Where can I find ebooks and etexts for download?\?
Q. Any good source? please don't say "limewire"
Asked by Eienstien's Ghost - Fri Jul 18 04:51:43 2008 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments

A. YEs there are many just go and see www.free-ebooks.net www.getfreeebooks.com/ and so many
Answered by Hacker - Fri Jul 18 05:17:05 2008

What are your impresstions of "The Principal Doctrines of Epicurus? Link provided.?
Q. Addressing the number of the principals will save me time to understand what you mean. Thanks!
Asked by Richard N - Mon Jun 5 22:59:21 2006 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Hello dear! Since junior high school, I have been reading, studying, and having dialogs on philosophy! Plato, Homer, Aristotle, some Sophists, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, etc., were the main figures we were introduced from the surrounding, including school (definitely church, the Ministry of Education and other government entities were a barrier to knowledge). Epicurus, we can consider, has been hidden, if not forbidden! When I reached Epicurus, I found a New World! He has been the highest, regarding his Physics, Psychology, Philosophy and other science knowledge, writing and teachings. Further, besides his doctrines, his life style is the greatest lesson I could have! Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Euripides,… [cont.]
Answered by soubassakis - Fri Jun 9 02:57:34 2006

R&P..any fans of Edgar Allen Poe here?
Q. I was just sitting back and reading form his collected works.. and finding myslf amazes all over again. Here was a man who TRULY knew how to write horror. No need for blood and guts, he was able to scare you because he had such an uncanny fell for the human condition, for grief, for pain and for bleakness. Add to that his wonderful use of the English language, and you have someone who is not meerly the greatest horror writer ever, but I should think is safely in the top 10 writers of all time. What is your favorite Poe story? Here is Mine: Few people seem to get it, but I vivdly see the picture he paints. MQ- Songs based off of Poe Poems? BQ - Your favorite Author?
Asked by *Killer Peaches* Lord of Bacon - Fri Feb 13 23:08:49 2009 - - 18 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I have to introduce you to Sinead! She's an aspiring writer, and she loves gothic literature, especially Poe :) I'm not a big fan of Poe, and the only one I've read is "The Raven", but when I was about 9 or 10 I watched a lot of the Vincent Price films, such as :~ The Pit and the Pendulum Fall of the House of Usher The Raven Masque of the Red Death I also saw a Schools Programme adaptation of "The Tell-Tale Heart". And at some point, a film version of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". MQ : I have got, but not yet listened to, a certain album... Alan Parson's Project ~ "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" BQ : Selection of my favourite fiction authors, in random order :~ Arthur Conan Doyle Jasper Fforde Jerome K. Jerome M.C. Beaton… [cont.]
Answered by Silver* Rose Wolf - Sat Feb 14 07:19:17 2009