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...group, which represents 125 non-profit publishers of scholarly journals and academic books, said that it had signed onto Google Print for Publishers. This project would have permitted the publishers themselves to determine which books and periodicals could be digitized and made searchable online. Since this agreement, however, Google has also launched the Print for Libraries Project—a separate branch of the effort that copies universities’ books and materials without publishers’ explicit consents...
...faces a new challenge. Dell has become a strong competitor in printing, undercutting HP's pricing. Given that imaging and printing account for 70% of HP's profit, the challenge is significant. "Dell is giving away their printers rather than charging for them," says Vyomesh Joshi, head of HP's printer and PC group. "They're trying to buy the business." HP continues to diversify, presenting rear-projection TV, for instance, as an extension of its innovations in printing. No doubt HP is hoping to avoid a race to the bottom. --By Jeremy Caplan
...Krauss and Union Station. Pottery Barn has put out more than 70 different titles, with music touted among its top-grossing product categories. The Gap, Restoration Hardware, Lane Bryant and Eddie Bauer have released unique, company-branded packages, some purely for promotional purposes and others aimed at turning a profit...
...Over that period of time, I probably made less money than I would have in the profit sector [but] I thought it was an important thing to do for the University,” he says. “Stanford and Princeton both created management companies after the HMC model was in place...
...experience over the years has been that the nonprofit world occasionally takes on things from the for-profit world, and sometimes takes on very bad things,” he says. “I think there is a certain cult of personality in the cultural field that is not unlike some of the more visible CEOs of the corporate world. And I think that’s wrong. I think the best of the cultural leaders, the people who place their institutions before themselves, they’re not self-aggrandizing...