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The Transition from Paper: Where Are We Going and How Will We Get There? edited by R. Stephen Berry and Anne Simon Moffat

Summary
The world of communication is going through a transition unlike any that humans have ever experienced, with far-reaching consequences possibly greater than any prior advance since the invention of written language. Now communications are faster, cheaper, and potentially more accessible than we could have imagined even just a decade ago. Information of traditional and very nontraditional kinds is available, in principle, for anyone with a link to the internet. The scientific community has been at the vanguard in developing and using the new modes and in experiencing the consequences, both positive and negative, of the transition. We are still in the early stages of that transition, trying to feel our way ahead. The project that produced this set of essays has been an attempt to anticipate changes and to feel our way ahead in the process. [read the entire text online]

Print vs. digital publishing 

Critics attack net journal initiative by Ivan Noble

Critics of a project to set up alternative open-access scientific journals on the internet say the idea is ill-conceived and will undermine quality.

Financier George Soros announced in February that he was giving a $3m grant to the Budapest Open Access Initiative to set up open-archiving systems.

But, says Sally Morris, of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, open-access initiatives will undermine existing journals without replacing them.

"People value peer review and they value research being gathered together in things called journals," she told BBC News Online. [read more]

Not to discount the merits of their arguements, but the critics seem to be largely the publishers.

Film vs. digital photography 

Digital cameras click with consumers by Tiffany Kary

... The study found that most households now use their digital cameras as their primary means of photography, according to Slaughter, and 19 percent have stopped using film cameras altogether.

"The growth in market penetration will have a noticeable impact on the entire photo industry," she said. [read more]