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“The real problem with ebooks is that they’re more “e” than book, so an entirely different set of rules govern what someone — from an individual to a library — can and can’t do with them compared to physical books, especially when it comes to pricing.”
“Ebook consumers should be able to lend and resell ebooks the same way we do with physical books — only then can an ebook truly be a book, with all the world-opening possibilities it offers.”
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Protected: All-you-can-read ebooks
Protected: Discounted or Free Digital Versions of Print Books
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First U.S. Bookless Public Library
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“The library system, called BiblioTech, will launch (…)Â this the fall”
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Programmer creates 800,000 books algorithmically, starts selling them on Amazon
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“Thanks to digital distribution and print-on-demand solutions, a whole new book can be generated on an incredibly obscure topic as soon as someone buys it. The system will be able to compile an entire book on the subject in the range of ten minutes to a few hours. It’s that simple.”
Protected: Week of 11 June: Instituto de Estrategia Internacional (Argentina) e-books
Protected: Week of 14 May: Book review
Protected: Week of 7 May: World Bank e-books
Week of 5 March: World Bank/OECD e-Books
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- Light manufacturing in Africa : targeted policies to enhance private investment and create jobs / Hinh T. Dinh … [et al.] (World Bank)
- Agricultural policies for poverty reduction (OECD)
- Aid effectiveness 2011 : progress in implementing the Paris Declaration (OECD)
- EfficacitĂ© de l’aide 2011 : progrès accomplis dans la mise en Ĺ“uvre de la DĂ©claration de Paris (OCDE)
– More on the Paris Declaration : English / Français
Week of 5 March: CEPR e-Books
- Trade, competition, and the pricing of commodities / edited by Simon J. Evenett, Frédéric Jenny
- Unfinished business? : the WTO’s Doha agenda / edited by Will Martin, Aaditya Mattoo
- Reforming the international monetary system / Emmanuel Farhi, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Hélène Rey
- The great recession and import protection : the role of temporary trade barriers / Chad P. Bown
- Where to spend the next million? : applying impact evaluation to trade assistance / Olivier Cadot, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Julien Gourdon, Aaditya Mattoo
Week of 20 February: Cambridge University Press e-Books (just in…)
- The law and politics of WTO waivers : stability and flexibility in public international law / Isabel Feichtner
- The WTO case law of 2009 : legal and economic analysis / edited by Henrik Horn, Petros C. Mavroidis
- The WTO case law of 2008 : legal and economic analysis / edited by Henrik Horn, Petros C. Mavroidis
- The gravity model in international trade : advances and applications / edited by Peter A.G. van Bergeijk, Steven Brakman
- A handbook on reading WTO goods and services schedules / WTO Secretariat
– want to know more about what’s happening in the world of e-books? Find out here (from the Economist)
Week of 23 January: Book Reviews
- Le protectionnisme, un remède à la crise ? / Florian Mayneris (La vie des idées.fr)
- Le protectionnisme, un libéralisme internationaliste : naissance et diffusion, 1789-1914 / David Todd (La vie des idées.fr)
Week of 16 January: E-Books
- Sustainable technology transfer : a guide to global aid & trade development / edited by Hans Henrik Lidgard, Jeffery Atik, Tu Thanh Nguyen
- Working towards a balanced and inclusive green economy : a United Nations System-wide perspective (United Nations Environment Management Group)
- Knowing when you do not know : simulating the poverty and distributional impacts of an economic crisis / editors Ambar Narayan, Carolina Sanchez (World Bank)
- New structural economics : a framework for rethinking development and policy / Justin Yifu Lin (World Bank)
- Now available — Opening markets for trade in services : countries and sectors in bilateral and WTO negotiations / edited by Juan A. Marchetti, Martin Roy
Week of 9 January: Book Review
- Power and the governance of global trade : from the GATT to the WTO by Soo Yeon Kim / review by Tim Rooth (The Economic History Review, Vol. 65, Issue 1, Feb. 2012)
– Available in the Library
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