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New York Review of Books: The Food Movement Rising

The NYRB, that bastion of the book publishing Establishment, offers a long piece about recent books on local food. Not much new for those who have been following the movement(s), but a good recap for those who haven't, with some thoughtful ruminations too:

The Social Life of Documents - First Monday

written in 1996

notice Note 4:

4. Under the term "demassification," implications of this shift are discussed in J.S. Brown and P. Duguid, "Borderline Issues."

might be worth finding....

Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Educational Technology Publications books open and free

For nearly 50 years, Educational Technology Publications has been a choice publisher of those doing the finest, most up-to-date thinking in the education field. On its website the company reports having been at the forefront of every important new trend in the development of the field throughout the past five decades.

Now they have jumped to the forefront of the open content trend in publishing. Publisher Lawrence Lipsitz writes to me in an email:

. . . we are now placing all pages of all of our more than 300 books published since 1969, including even the most recently published books, both in-print and out-of-print books, with the GoogleBooks program, available for full-text search and reading. Every page of every book. Close to 200 are “live” now, with Google processing the remainder daily. In the first ten days, there were about 25,000 page views (with only some of the books available for viewing at the time). This is all open and free.

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