Is this the end of the printed textbook?

Tom Wilkie reports back on discussions about e-textbooks at the London Book Fair

Academic publishing doesn't add up

The world of university research has long been held to ransom by academic publishers charging exorbitant prices for subscriptions – but that may all be about to end

Quo Vadis copyright?

 

"If copyright is to survive into the 21st Century and beyond, it must adapt to cater for new forms of homogeneous works. However, if it is to be adapted to try and protect forms of heterogeneous works, it will not survive in a coherent form..." (by Prof OH Dean, Stellenbosch University)