A new report, Rip-off 101: How The Current Practices Of The Textbook Industry Drive Up The Cost Of College Textbooks, by the US consumer body CALPRIG has been causing quite a stir. Some highlights from the report (which is available as a free pdf download):
* Textbooks are expensive and have been steadily getting more expensive
* [...]
Entries from September 2005
Rip-off 101
September 27th, 2005 · 1 Comment
Tags: General · Publishers · Students
Research into Practice conference 2006
September 27th, 2005 · Comments Off
The second call for papers is out for the the Fourth international biennial conference on the foundations of practice-based research in art and design at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, on 7 & 8 July 2006.
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The Search
September 8th, 2005 · Comments Off
The Search, John Battelle’s eagerly-awaited book on “How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture” has just hit the shelves. Apart from its intrinsic interest, the process of writing the book is also interesting in that John relied heavily on his blog to start a conversation with his readers.
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New journal about research as practice
September 2nd, 2005 · Comments Off
Today I got an e-mail from DP Dash of the Xavier Institute of Management in India. He is editor, together with Héctor Ponce of the Universidad de Santiago de Chile, of the new Journal for Research Practice. The journal has all the usual trappings such as peer review and an international editorial advisory board (including, [...]
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