Understanding how contracts (and the terms therein) in the age of IoT (the Internet of Things), especially as it relates to consumer products, are changing, is crucial for an company who utilizes the internet to sell, market and provide it's products.
Read MoreAccording to a recent WSJ article, Twitter has 313 million monthly active users, but its “total addressable audience” is 800 million (and possible much larger if you include who see tweets outside Twitter’s website or apps, or even every news source that simply cites and/or quotes a tweet.)
Read MoreDollar Shave Club introduced a subscription model for selling razors using slapstick humor on YouTube. Now, Dollar Shave Club is being bought by Unilever PLC for $1 billion cash. Among the lessons learned and traditional industry norms broken are:
Read MoreIP authentication is the most important mechanism for authorizing access to licensed e-resources. Substantial business and policy issues for libraries and publishers alike connect up to IP authentication. Today, there is growing interest in eliminating IP authentication, so it is timely to examine the implications if we were soon to see its end.
Read MoreUntil recently, I’ve considered Bitcoin to be a shady digital currency that facilitates the activities of drug lords, arms dealers, smugglers, prostitution rings, and other nefarious activities that hide in the shadows of an open market. In recent years, however, Bitcoin, has been moving into more pedestrian and lawful activities.
Read MoreIn 2004, Google began a Digital Book Project, which involved scanning books under agreements with several major research libraries and other institutional partners around the world. The Project resulted in an index of more than 20 million digitized books.
Read MoreWe often see discussions of scholarly publishing framed with familiar terminology — commercial vs. non-profit; subscription vs. open access; glamour vs. non-glamour; specialty vs. general; high-impact vs. low-impact.
Read MoreTech Trends PosterEach spring during its annual US meeting, the International Association of STM Publishers (STM) releases a view of the top tech trends impacting scholarly publishing. That STM Future Trends for 2020 was released last Thursday.
Read MorePublishers and retailers will aim to prevent e-book prices from soaring when a new European-wide VAT law on digital products is introduced on 1st January.
Read MoreUnder a new California law, companies could be slapped with thousands of dollars in fines for trying to punish consumers for writing negative online reviews.The so-called Yelp Law makes it unlawful for a company to insert a provision into a consumer contract that waives the right to make "any statement" about the goods or services purchased.
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