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Thompson said she is “always fielding inquiries” from researchers looking for a piece that a certain author published in the Review before hitting it big on the literary circuit. “Until now, I would either send them old copies or scan them. Now I can just say, go to JSTOR...
...Google's relationship with newspapers is a bit stressed, mainly because of the way Google News currently distributes newspaper content - effectively diverting readers away from individual news sites by allowing them to scan headlines and story briefs without leaving Google. However, on Sept. 16, Google attempted to mend fences with newspapers by launching Fast Flip, a free news hub that allows readers to scan through participating newspapers, but gives those papers a share of the revenue from ads placed around the site. (See the best business deals...
...analysts scan the landscape they see a virtual Who's Who of battered luxury chains. "Saks and Neiman's sales are horrendous. Tiffany was down 27% in U.S. same-store sales last quarter, Bulgari was down 21%, Harry Winston sales were down 49%, and [LVMH Moet Hennessy] Louis Vuitton down 23%," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a retail consulting and investment banking services firm. "If you look at Madison Avenue, it's a ghost town in terms of store closings. It's an absolute disaster." (Read "How Consumers Shop Differently Today...
...Europe's rage is tinged with a touch of shame, as the Google Books saga highlights just how far behind European nations lag in their own digitization efforts. When Google started the project five years ago, several countries - France in particular - raised the alarm and proposed grand plans to scan Europe's literary bounty. Still, "only some 1% of the books in Europe's national libraries have been digitized so far," Viviane Reding, E.U. Commissioner for Information Society and Media, noted in a joint statement, warning that "if we are too slow to go digital, Europe's culture could suffer...
...data sources - including news media and government alerts - and puts them on a Google Map to show where outbreaks are occurring, in real time. Whether it's measles in Sussex, foot-and-mouth disease in Taiwan or avian flu in Indonesia, as reports of diseases bubble up, HealthMap researchers scan them and post them online. The result is about as close as you can get to a real-time picture of the state of the world's health, and it's become a useful tool for both professional epidemiologists and curious amateurs. "We wanted to bring all this information...