A writer decides to upload a working draft of his novel to Amazon's Kindle store and sell it for 99 cents a download. What he really wants, though, is editorial feedback. Read More at PageView (CHE) »
Journalism
“Hot Type: A Modern Scholar’s Ailments: Link Rot and Footnote Flight”
In the first of a two-part series, I talk to a couple of researchers who've investigated link rot and what it means for scholarship when URLs in journal articles go bad. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
“Historians Try to Break the Seal on Nixon’s Grand-Jury Testimony”
Will Nixon's grand-jury testimony from June 1975 help settle debates about what the president really knew and did during Watergate? A prominent Watergate historian and several historical associations have petitioned a federal court to open the records. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
“One Step Closer to a National Digital Library”
I talked to Robert Darnton, the historian who directs the Harvard University Library, about how plans for a Digital Public Library of America are shaping up. Read More at Wired Campus (CHE) »
“Conference Describes How to Find–and Make Findable–Information in a Digital Sea”
A report on the Ithaka group's Sustainable Scholarship 2010 conference, whose theme this year was "Discovering Scholarly Content." Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
