[Web4lib] Cites & Insights 11:5 (May 2011) available

[Walt Crawford]

Cites & Insights 11:5 (May 2011) is now available for downloading at
http://citesandinsights.info/civ5i11.pdf

The 44-page issue is PDF as usual, and consists of 1.5 essays. Each
essay (or portion) is also available as an HTML separate. If this
seems like an all-ebook issue, that's not intentional.

This issue includes:

Perspective: Writing about Reading (continued) pp. 1-16

    This essay completes Perspective: Writing about Reading from the
April 2011 C&I, with sections on how ebooks will (if you believe the
authors) change reading and writing; "all singing! all dancing"--in
which the only future for books is as multimedia extravaganzas; and
writing about writing. It's snarkier than the first portion, even
though it's been heavily desnarked.

The Zeitgeist: 26 is Not the Issue pp. 16-44

    This abecedary goes from Absurd licenses to... Well, no, the topic
is the only one truly suitable for the Zeitgeist label at the
moment--HarperCollins, pay-per-view in some form, deals with the devil
and what you lose when ownership turns to licenses.

    If this one seems long, I'll note two things:

        It's actually the shortest of this year's major essays--but
it's all appearing at once, instead of being split over two issues.
        I was drawing from some 100 source documents, and in a few
cases those really needed to be quoted in full. Most cite-and-comment
essays average around 500 words per cited source; this one averages
fewer than 250 words per cited source. (Yes, I skipped some of the
original 100...)

Enjoy! Or, you know, don't.