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	<description>The Creative Librarian is a hub for matters important to librarians/information scientists of today. There is a definite lean towards electronic issues, however it isn't restricted to only those. Hopefully this site will also be useful for informing non-librarians on these issues as so many of them affect us all.</description>
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		<title>How much should ebooks cost?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The rise in popularity of ebooks has started a debate on how they should be priced versus the print editions. I&#8217;ve been interested hearing the viewpoints from the authors themselves (see the article below).
But publishers also say consumers exaggerate the savings and have developed unrealistic expectations about how low the prices of e-books can go. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unintended Consequences: Twelve Years under the DMCA &#124; Electronic Frontier Foundation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This document collects reported cases where the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA have been invoked not against pirates, but against consumers, scientists, and legitimate competitors. It will be updated from time to time as additional cases come to light. Previous versions remain available.
via Unintended Consequences: Twelve Years under the DMCA &#124; Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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		<link>http://creativelibrarian.com/882/unintended-consequences-twelve-years-under-the-dmca-electronic-frontier-foundation/</link>
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		<title>Why DRM Doesn’t Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[via The Brads – a comic about web design   » The Brads – Why DRM Doesn’t Work.
Why file-sharing is still so popular.
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		<link>http://creativelibrarian.com/878/why-drm-doesn%e2%80%99t-work/</link>
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		<title>iPad in libraries &#8211; Unshelved Answers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[iPad in libraries &#8211; Unshelved Answers.
A great discussion on the future of ebooks in libraries.
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		<link>http://creativelibrarian.com/876/ipad-in-libraries-unshelved-answers/</link>
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		<title>Internet Explorer 8 becomes the most popular browser in the world &#8211; Telegraph</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest version of Microsoft’s browser has finally overtaken Internet Explorer 6, now accounting for 22.3 per cent of the global browser market in January 2010, according to market share measurements carried out by NetApplications.
Interestingly IE8 only took 10 months to become the global browser leader. However, its recent boost can probably be attributed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativelibrarian.com/874/internet-explorer-8-becomes-the-most-popular-browser-in-the-world-telegraph/</link>
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		<title>Google Twists Knife In IE6, Pulls Support From Docs And Sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has not been the greatest start to the year for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. Days after news of the latest security flaw in Internet Explorer, Google is adding fuel to the fire by phasing out support for IE6 for two of its Google Apps products, Docs and Sites (which recently got an aesthetic upgrade).
via [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativelibrarian.com/870/google-twists-knife-in-ie6-pulls-support-from-docs-and-sites/</link>
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		<title>Amazon and Macmillan fence over e-book pricing &#124; Entertainment &amp; HDTV &#124; Playlist &#124; Macworld</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Less than a week has passed since Apple unveiled the iPad and its new e-book reading software, but it seems that the device is already disrupting the publishing market. This past weekend, publishing house Macmillan and online retailer Amazon sparred over the price of e-books.
The dispute began in behind-the-scenes conversations between the two companies, then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativelibrarian.com/865/amazon-and-macmillan-fence-over-e-book-pricing-entertainment-hdtv-playlist-macworld/</link>
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		<title>Lessig on Copyright and Culture: &#8220;Things could have been different&#8221; Boing Boing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the Love of Culture, Google, Copyright and our Future. Astute and moving commentary by Lawrence Lessig, a love letter to the real-space library.
Whatever your view of it, notice first just how different this future promises to be. In real libraries, in real space, access is not metered at the level of the page (or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativelibrarian.com/863/lessig-on-copyright-and-culture-things-could-have-been-different-boing-boing/</link>
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		<title>After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday&#8217;s Web Site &#124; The New York Observer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday&#38;apos;s Web Site
In late October, Newsday, the Long Island daily that the Dolans bought for $650 million, put its web site, newsday.com, behind a pay wall. The paper was one of the first non-business newspapers to take the plunge by putting up a pay wall, so in media [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativelibrarian.com/861/after-three-months-only-35-subscriptions-for-newsdays-web-site-the-new-york-observer/</link>
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		<title>O&#8217;Reilly drops ebook DRM, sees 104% increase in sales  Boing Boing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#38;apos;s been 18 months since O&#38;apos;Reilly, the world&#38;apos;s largest publisher of tech books, stopped using DRM on its ebooks. In the intervening time, O&#38;apos;Reilly&#38;apos;s ebook sales have increased by 104 percent. Now, when you talk about ebooks and DRM, there&#38;apos;s always someone who&#38;apos;ll say, &#8220;But what about [textbooks&#124;technical books&#124;RPG manuals]? Their target audience is so [...]]]></description>
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