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Peter Brantley

Biography

Peter Brantley is the Executive Director for the Digital Library Federation, a not-for-profit international association of libraries and allied institutions. His background includes significant experience with research libraries and digital library development programs. He has served as the Director of Technology at the California Digital Library, New York University, UC Berkeley, and UCSF. He was the first IT Manager for Rapt, a private SF firm providing pricing optimization for online advertising delivery, and eons ago worked as a systems analyst in the mass-market division of Random House. Peter is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Digital Publishing Forum. He was first introduced to computing via the CDC Plato system.

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Expectation of Fair Pricing, Not Free

February 23 2009

At Dear Author, a post stating that not all content should be expected to be free; rather it must be provided, free or not, in a realistic understanding of consumer... read more

New York Times Settles Linking Suit

January 27 2009

In what many of us thought was a slightly bizarre case, the New York Times Co. has settled with GateHouse Media in a suit attempting to cease the automated... read more

Palm's webOS Represents Major Shift for Syncing and Data

January 12 2009

In an article covering the Palm Pre mobile device, Ars Technica makes a very important point about how devices utilize network connectivity, and what the assumptions are underlying their... read more

New Tech Mixes Book Experience with Sensors

December 16 2008

A new form of hybrid book is coming on the market -- and the inventor consults with Apple. From the Guardian UK: Lyndsay Williams -- who has already developed... read more

History Repeating with Book Publishing's Mobile Efforts

December 10 2008

A Computerworld blog post from Mike Elgan looks at recent mobile announcements from book publishers. From the perspective of technology, watching book publishers slowly grapple with the tentative migration... read more

800 Newspapers Coming to Iliad E-Reader

December 06 2008

iRex Technologies scores scores of newspapers for its new iLiad e-reader. From E-Reads: Digitally delivered news is gaining momentum and as we turn the corner to 2009 it's gotten... read more

Random House Expands Ebook Offerings, Embraces EPUB

November 25 2008

Random House is pursing digital with a vengeance, recognizing a growth market. From the Huffington Post: The publisher already has more than 8,000 books in the electronic format and... read more

Point-Counterpoint: On Digital Book DRM

November 20 2008

In the first part of a point-counterpoint exchange, Peter Brantley outlines reasons why DRM is bad for book publishers. read more

EFF Attorney: Google Book Search Settlement Weakens Innovation

November 20 2008

In an editorial in The Recorder, Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation says Google's settlement with publishers and authors signals an implicit abandonment of Google's legal team... read more

Publishers Need to Get In on the Conversation

November 19 2008

Kassia Krozser has a Cluetrain-like manifesto for publishers. From Booksquare: It's time to get your hands dirty, to dig into the real-world conversation. It's a weird thing, and sometimes... read more

Ebook to iPod to Hard Copy Purchase

November 18 2008

Hugh McGuire is loving Stanza, the free ereader app for the iPhone/iPod Touch. From the Book Over Blog: 40,000 ebook dowloads-a-day. I've got 35 of them sitting on my... read more

APIs, New "Transactions" and the Google Book Search Registry

November 13 2008

At PersonaNonData, Michael Cairns discusses the Google Book Search registry, and muses whether it might support certain types of transactions through an API: How the registry may be formed is... read more

Android Barcode App Connects to Google Book Search

November 12 2008

Google has released a nifty Android app that permits the scanning of a book's barcode, enabling the linkage with the corresponding work in Google Book Search. From E-Reads: "Google has... read more

Election Interest Signals Print's High-End Future

November 10 2008

Following the sell-out of post-election newspapers, Ed Nawotka looks at the collectable future of print. From Beyond Hall 8: One immediate consequence of Obama's victory was the boost in... read more

The Barack SlideShow

November 09 2008

President-elect Obama has been very vocal about supporting an open government policy, and so far the signs are quite promising.  See for example this page linked off Obama's transition website,... read more

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