SWONtech News for March, 2012

March 2012

#CILDC

http://www.infotoday.com/cil2012/https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23CILDC

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Apple’s New News

• New iPad: 4x Pixels (= 4x Size)

• Larger App File Sizes

• Retina Display, “264 pixels per inch (ppi)”

• iPad2 = $399

http://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/http://www.macstories.net/news/this-is-the-new-ipad-our-overview/

Apple’s iPad Con!gurator

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apple-con!gurator/id434433123?mt=12

AppleTV & the iTunes iCloud

http://www.apple.com/appletv/http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/7/2852114/itunes-in-the-cloud-now-supports-movies

Apple & Ebook Price Fixing?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203961204577267831767489216.html

Pricing Models:Agency Pricing vs.Wholesale Pricing

“Convert higher bitrate songs to...”

http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/12/2864555/itunes-10-6-transcoding-options-192kbps-256kbps-ipod-iOS

Neil Young & The 5%

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1677694/sundance-!lm-festival-neil-young.jhtmlhttps://www.hdtracks.com/http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Listening_Tests

• 24 bits, 192 khz vs. 16 bits, 44.1 khzhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neil_Young_-_Per_Ole_Hagen.jpg

• Variable bitrate vs. Constant bitrateiTunes: 256kbps CBR AAC Amazon: ~256kbps VBR MP3 Google Play: 320kbps CBR MP3 FreeGal: 256kbps CBR MP3

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/pre-owned-music-lawsuit-2/https://www.redigi.com/buy.html

ReDigi: Marketplace for used MP3s

Harris Poll: E-Reader Ownership Growth Continues in February

http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/HarrisPolls/tabid/447/ctl/ReadCustom%20Default/mid/1508/ArticleId/979/Default.aspxhttp://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/E-readers-and-tablets/Findings.aspx

(Pew)

Pearson Foundation Survey on Students and Tablets

http://www.pearsonfoundation.org/downloads/PF_Tablet_Survey_Summary_2012.pdf

Corporate Buyers Thinking iPad

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/03/13/survey-ipads-the-choice-of-84-of-companies-buying-tablets/

30%

Google’s “Play”: Music, Video, Books, Apps

https://play.google.com/storehttp://www.theverge.com/2012/3/6/2848223/google-play-store-rebranded-android-market

Pew Internet: Search Engine Use 2012

http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Search_Engine_Use_2012.pdf

Pew Internet: Search Engine Use 2012

http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Search_Engine_Use_2012.pdf

Pew Internet: Search Engine Use 2012

http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Search_Engine_Use_2012.pdf

Pew Internet: Search Engine Use 2012

http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Search_Engine_Use_2012.pdf

Pew Internet: Search Engine Use 2012

http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Search_Engine_Use_2012.pdf

Pew Internet: Search Engine Use 2012

http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Search_Engine_Use_2012.pdf

Dropbox Gets New Web Interface

http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/9/2856829/dropbox-adds-photo-viewer-keyboard-shortcutshttp://db.tt/pEAvGkL (Sign up for Dropbox - Referral link)

SLJ’s Battle of the Kids’ Books (BoB)

http://battleofthebooks.slj.com/faq/

Pinterest: Land of the Lawless?

http://ddkportraits.com/2012/02/why-i-tearfully-deleted-my-pinterest-inspiration-boards/http://blog.lib.umn.edu/copyrightlibn/2012/03/pinterest-copyright-and-terms-of-service.html

1. While the way Pinterest functions certainly raises a number of copyright issues, they're not signi!cantly different from the issues raised by many other social sharing sites!

2. A lot of people are talking about how scary the Pinterest terms of service are - but they are not signi!cantly different from those of many other social sharing sites.

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Nook & Library Ebook Checkouts

http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/faq/(By “validate” I mean “authorize”)

Some Random House Ebook Prices Triple

http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/random-house-not-so-random-with-library-ebook-price-increases/http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2012/03/ebooks/librarians-feel-sticker-shock-as-price-for-random-house-ebooks-rise-as-much-as-300-percent/http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2011/where-do-libraries-!t/ (Audio Recording)

Random House, 2012: “We believe that pricing to libraries must account for the higher value of this institutional model, which permits e-books to be repeatedly circulated without limitation.”

Random House, 2011: “For us, a library book does not compete with a sale. A library book is a sale.”

Public Libraries: Estimated $800 Million per Year

The Agnostic Maybe blog

Elsevier: 36% Pro!t Margins

http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/transitions/?p=720http://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_779ca6a6-2839-11e1-bf49-001a4bcf6878.html

“[W]e have seen faculty taking note of the cost of some e-journal packages and collections of titles, most notably the $2.9 million figure from Purdue when that institution came close to cancelling [sic] their Elsevier package in December.”

A Small Lab: Certeau for Toddlers

http://a-small-lab.com/http://www."ickr.com/photos/a-small-lab/sets/72157629544188361/

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