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Robotic Book Scanner for High-Volume Digital Conversion
Rip-off 101: How Textbook Industry Manipulates Prices
Thursday, August 10, 2006
What Not To Do
Someone has no doubt spent millions developing this beautiful, and utterly unusable, digital book interface. (hat tip to Ernie.)
Terry Frazier at 12:00 AM
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Robotic Book Scanner for High-Volume Digital Conversion
This is very cool a non-destructive robotic scanner for books. The video of this thing at work is nice. [via Tim Oren]
Bookbots
Maybe not as world shaking as milbots or healthbots, but if you're Google or Amazon, or possessed of a very large dead tree library, you'll want Kirtas Technologies' Bookscan (check out the video). If you've ever had to get legacy printed material into a scanning or OCR system, hands-on or just paying the bills, you'll appreciate it. Gadgets like this as well as the search engines' book indexing projects will slowly break down the "Internet Event Horizon" that's made a lot of information created before the mid-1990s invisible to the net.
Terry Frazier at 1:08 PM
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Sunday, September 25, 2005
Rip-off 101: How Textbook Industry Manipulates Prices
The textbook publishing industry is coming under fire for exhorbitant prices and abusive practices. We take a look at recent commentary on the state of the industry, a new research report that documents the state of the problem with corrective recommendations, and some innovative students who are fighting back. [More...] Terry Frazier at 7:15 PM
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