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UPDATED TUESDAY MORNING The public directly and indirectly subsidizes an awful lot of academic research on the theory that knowledge is an important public good. So the public should have access to it! We should be able to arrange the......

Running a word-count program on the transcript of last night's GOP presidential primary debate I get: Mitt Romney -- 4,649 (34%) Newt Gingrich -- 4,118 (30%) Rick Santorum --2,898 ( 21%) Ron Paul -- 2,095 (15%) This does not include......

Wednesday's book news includes backlash over Elsevier's journals, and anti-evolution voice app Iris that has financial ties to Jeff Bezos...

Here a few cookbooks that nicely showcase Irish cuisine: The Country Cooking of Ireland by Colman Andrews (Chronicle Books) Known for its scenic landscape rather than its gastronomic prowess, Ireland has never been considered a major force on the world'...

Variety, Hollywood's oldest and most iconic entertainment industry trade publication, has been put up for sale....

Amazon Kindle textbook rental rReader: Amazon.com launched Kindle textbook rentals, promising "tens of thousands of textbooks" at discounts of as much as 80% less than purchase price on Monday. Students can rent a textbook for as little as 30 or up to 360...

Leo Wolinsky, a former top editor at the Los Angeles Times, has been named editor of Daily Variety.Before leaving the paper last year following a disagreement with editor Russ Stanton, Wolinsky worked at the Times for 31 years in a......

The sense many people have that they've lost control of their personal information dates back to long before the advent of Facebook and its serial invasions of its users' privacy. As my Sunday column reports, the first technological assault on......

Book publishers win key legal victory against RapidShare, a file-hosting website....

Publishers John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill, Macmillan, Reed Elsevier, Pearson and Cengage Learning have won a judgment in a German court against Switzerland-based RapidShare. Our Technology blog reports: Book piracy has become a growing concern for...

* Probe follows more scrutiny of benchmarks post-Libor * Platts unique in using trading "window" to assess prices * Agency has long defended its oil assessment process By Peg Mackey and Alex Lawler LONDON, May 15 (Reuters) - A European investigation...

May 11 (TheWrap.com) - The pile of lawsuits on Jay Penske's desk just gets higher and higher. After being sued and countersuing a marketing company over a joint venture last week, the new Variety owner has now sued the former owners of Variety, Reed...