One of the pressing questions in the current publishing era concerns the effect of offering free online digital versions of books on the sales of the print versions.  Does a free digital version increase print sales, decrease print sales, or have no effect at all?  Only Rupert Murdoch's hairdresser knows for sure. 

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This sort of snuck up on me, but I'm breaking up with my hometown newspaper. I think this break from my print subscription is rather important, illustrating how the world of news and information is changing.  Read on for the details.



Dear South Bend Tribune:

I received your letter today asking for more information as to why I canceled my subscription last week.  Your letter included a brief questionnaire asking why I stopped the paper and how the customer service was when I called to cancel.  Yes, I called to cancel, because I couldn't find a way to do so online.  You might want to make that an option.

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On Thursday, April 19th the Dominican GSLIS community came together for our annual Lazerow Lecture. I was especially excited because our speaker this year was my colleague Brian Kenney, editor of School Library Journal and a member of the 2nd University of North Texas Information Science IMLS-funded PhD cohort.

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