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|Matt Bartkowski, Daniel Paille, Chris Kelly all to travel with Bruins to Detroit
|04.20.14 at 7:05 pm ET
Matt Bartkowski, Daniel Paille and Chris Kelly will all travel to Detroit as the first-round series between the Bruins and Red Wings moves to Joe Louis Arena, B's coach Claude Julien said after Sunday's Game 2 win.
Bartkowski, who has been out all week with a stomach flu, practiced Saturday but the team deemed him unable to go for Game 2. Kevan Miller missed Game 1 with the same ailment but played Sunday, logging 19:18 of ice time.
"He'd only practiced yesterday quickly here and was probably not 100 percent, trying to recover from that flu, that virus that he had," Julien said of Bartkowski. "He missed at least six days of not skating, so we didn't think it was a wise choice to put him in just [from] watching him practice yesterday. Miller was in a different situation. He came back, practiced, missed a game, practiced. He seemed a little bit better. That was a medical kind of decision, seeing who could handle this pace tonight and was a strong enough to do that.
"As far as next game, I don't know. I keep telling you guys that when we're talking about a virus, it's hard to stand here and say this guy will be in, that guy won't be in. It really becomes a day-to-day situation."
Paille has been out since last Saturday with what is believed to be a head injury, though he skated Friday and Saturday. Kelly, who missed the final three games of the regular season with a back issue and has not played in either of the first two games against the Red Wings, has yet to be spotted on the ice.
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|Pierre McGuire on M&M: Red Wings' Mike Babcock 'the most creative coach in the NHL'
|04.18.14 at 2:33 pm ET
NBC Sports hockey analyst Pierre McGuire joined Mut & Merloni on Friday to discuss the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. To hear the interview, go to the Mut & Merloni audio on demand page.
For McGuire, Friday night's matchup against the Red Wings is the toughest scenario the Bruins could have faced.
"The only reason I say that is the creativity of Mike Babcock, [Detroit's] coach," McGuire said. "I think most people know on paper the rosters don't compare. Boston's roster is better on paper than Detroit's just because of the veteran experience and the fact that most of the players on the Bruins roster have been part of a Stanley Cup run to the final and/or won a Stanley Cup.
"A lot of these Detroit players really haven't been a part of that. It's really been a huge turnover in their roster — some because of injury, some because of retirement and some just because they had no other choice. The one thing I will say about this Detroit roster is a lot of the younger players you'll see won an American [Hockey] League championship last year in Grand Rapids."
One of the main concerns for the Bruins is the Red Wings' speed.
"That's going to be the No. 1 thing to watch early on," McGuire said. "Watch what they do when they're attacking Zdeno Chara. Watch what they do when they're attacking Johnny Boychuk — two of the bigger, more important defensemen for the Bruins just because of the shutdown capabilities. Let's see if they play chip-and-chase hockey or if they really try to stretch them out and create huge seams.
"You won't know until the game starts, but this is going back to my point about Mike Babcock — to me he is the most creative coach in the NHL. Doesn't mean he's the best — although he's getting one of my votes for Coach of the Year. I think he's the most creative coach in the National Hockey League and we'll see how he breaks down the Bruins defense because the Bruins defense, as we know, is extremely good."
|Chris Kelly, Daniel Paille, Matt Bartkowski miss Bruins practice again; Dennis Seidenberg increases workload
|04.17.14 at 1:04 pm ET
Chris Kelly, Daniel Paille and Matt Bartkowski were all absent from Thursday's practice, which puts their availability for the start of their series against the Red Wings in question. Kevan Miller, who had not practiced Tuesday or Wednesday, did return to practice.
Following the practice, Claude Julien wouldn't rule any of the three out.
Paille has not played since leaving the team's win over the Sabres last Saturday with what appeared to be a head injury, while Kelly sat out the last three games of the season with back spasms. Neither have practiced this week, while Bartkowski, who didn't have any injury-related absences from games this season, has been off the ice as well. He may be dealing with the flu, as several Bruins had been sick earlier in the week.
"I don't know that it's official yet on any of that stuff," Julien said. "Today was another day where we had another player, so we'll see what tomorrow brings. It's hard for me to start giving you my lineup when I don't know what's going to happen day to day. Hopefully it continues to improve, which it has this week, and we'll go from there."
Dennis Seidenberg skated again prior to practice Thursday, which marked at least the fourth consecutive day in which he took the ice. Seidenberg did the same routine that he had done in recent days (big laps, smaller circles in the neutral zones, shooting and moving laterally across the blueline), but added a drill in which he skated out to a cone and took a tight turn before catching a pass and turning. Tighter turns would suggest further progress as he tests what his surgically repaired right knee can handle. Video of that drill is below.
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|Daniel Paille, Chris Kelly, Matt Bartkowski, Kevan Miller miss Bruins practice; Dennis Seidenberg skates again
|04.16.14 at 11:12 am ET
WILMINGTON – Daniel Paille and Chris Kelly both missed Wednesday's practice. Both players missed the team's final game of the regular season, with Kelly sitting out the last three with back spasms and Paille suffering what appeared to be a head injury in the team's second to last game.
Also missing from practice were defensemen Matt Bartkowski and Kevan Miller. Claude Julien had said numerous Bruins were battling the flu Tuesday, but Patrice Bergeron, Andrej Meszaros and Loui Eriksson were all back at practice Wednesday as missing Tuesday's skate.
The Bruins' lines in practice were as follows:
Lucic – Krejci – Iginla
Marchand – Bergeron – Smith
Florek – Soderberg – Eriksson
Caron – Campbell – Thornton
Dennis Seidenberg skated again Wednesday, marking at least his third straight day on the ice. Seidenberg was on the ice for about 25 minutes and did the same thing as Tuesday, working with strength and conditioning coach John Whitesides as he did big circles, then smaller circles, shot and practiced taking pucks on the blue line and moving across it.
Adam McQuaid was not on the ice Wednesday and did not skate Tuesday.
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|No update on Daniel Paille, Patrice Bergeron's issue 'very minor'
|04.12.14 at 3:54 pm ET
The Bruins offered no update on winger Daniel Paille, who left Saturday's game in the third period after taking a big hit from Sabres defenseman Jake McCabe.
Paille was slow to leave the ice and has already had two concussions this season. Patrice Bergeron also left the game, but he played the first two periods before missing the third, seemingly for the sake of rest. Bergeron sat Thursday in Minnesota, though the team said it wasn't a healthy scratch.
"With Bergy it's very minor," Claude Julien said. "With Paisy I haven't had a chance to talk yet with my trainers or to the doctors. I'll probably see later on."
The Bruins will finish their regular season schedule Sunday in New Jersey. Chris Kelly is not expected to play and Julien said that the team will likely call up multiple players from Providence to play.
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Bruins forward Chris Kelly will not play in the last two games of the regular season, Claude Julien said prior to Saturday's game against the Sabres.
Kelly played one shift in the third period and did not play in overtime of the team's shootout loss to the Wild Tuesday due to back spasms. He was kept out of Thursday's game against the Jets and will is not expected to play Saturday against the Sabres or Sunday against the Devils.
Julien said that the team expects him to be ready for the playoffs, which are expected to begin Thursday at TD Garden. With Kelly not playing the last two games of the regular season, the Bruins' usual third line of Carl Soderberg between Kelly and Loui Eriksson will not have played together in the final seven games of the regular season.
Aside from Kelly's absence, the team is expected to go with a full lineup Saturday, with Tuukka Rask starting in goal for the B's.
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|Bruins recall Ryan Spooner; Chris Kelly day-to-day
|04.09.14 at 5:36 pm ET
The Bruins recalled center Ryan Spooner from Providence on Wednesday, marking his second recall this month.
Spooner was brought up last week for a pair of games but did not play. His chances of playing this time around are better, as Chris Kelly played only one shift in the final 25 minutes of Tuesday's game and is considered day-to-day by the team.
Spooner filled in for Kelly earlier in the season when Kelly had a broken fibula. In 22 games for Boston this season, the 22-year-old has no goals and 11 assists for 11 points.
The 2010 second-round pick has 11 goals and 34 assists for 45 points in 45 games for Providence this season.
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Hans Lange
|Hans Lange
February 17, 1884
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
|August 13, 1960
(aged 76)
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
|Prussian, since 1916 German, USA
|musician, violinist, conductor
|Known for
|assistant of Arturo Toscanini at the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor at Chicago Symphony Orchestra, founder of New Mexico Symphony Orchestra
|Paul Lange
Hans Lange (born February 17, 1884 in Istanbul; died August 13, 1960 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) was a German-American conductor and musician. He was a son of Paul Lange, who had been a lecturer for music at the American College for Girls and German High School Istanbul in the 1890s, and later was appointed the Sultan's director of music. Hans Lange himself was an alumnus of German High School Istanbul.
Lange was educated in Prague and other European cities. After assignments in several German cities, for example in Bielefeld, he entered the United States in 1925 with a German orchestra to give concerts. The orchestra was dissolved during the tour, and Lange had to restart his career.
Lange joined the New York Philharmonic Orchestra as a violinist in 1927, but began soon to conduct as well. He became assistant of Arturo Toscanini, and rehearsed almost all his performances.[1] At that time, he also worked on his own as a conductor: besides numerous assignments as conductor of the New York Philharmonic in concerts at the Carnegie Hall until 1936, he e.g. recorded one of his Wagner concerts with the famous soprano Kirsten Flagstad for HMV Records.
In 1936–1943 he worked as Associate Conductor and later became Conductor (1943–46) of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. As he had not taken up US citizenship during the war, his contract with CSO was not extended in 1946. On May 12, 1940, he recorded with the CSO and the Polish American piano virtuoso Jozef Hofmann Beethovens Piano Concert No. 5 ("Emperor"). The recording (35 minutes) has been published in CSO's own historic series and in Jozef Hofmann anthologies.
In 1947 Lange worked in Toledo, Ohio. On April 13, 1947, he was invited again by his former boss Toscanini to New York to perform as guest conductor at the NBC Symphony Orchestra.[2]
In 1950, Lange started to work with the Albuquerque Civic Symphony, less than two years after his predecessor Kurt Frederick had managed to bring the world premiere of Schoenbergs "A Survivor from Warsaw" to Albuquerque in November 1948. Lange transformed the ACS from an amateur ensemble into what is today known as New Mexico Symphony Orchestra (NMSO) and one of the leading professional orchestras in the United States.
He was a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.[3]
During his tenure in Chicago, Lange was one of the teachers and mentors of composer Leon Stein.

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Examinations If in exceptional circumstances an external The Academic Misconduct Policies, Guidelines and examiner is unable to attend a viva at York it may Procedures for 2009 will be updated accordingly. be possible to arrange for the teleconferencing of a research student's oral examination. Requests Calculation and application of penalties for for teleconferencing must be made to the SCA. academic misconduct The Committee approved the proposal that, where The definition of staff in regards to examining the best of a number of marks are to be used to a research thesis determine a final mark, marks for modules that Regulation 2.1 (i) states that only academics and have attracted a penalty must be included in the administrators should be considered as staff in calculation. regard to registering and being examined for higher degrees. 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Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve
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Wicken Fen is one of the last remaining fragments of undrained fenland which once covered the vast lowlands of Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Norfolk and Lincolnshire.
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Today's editorial: The governor wants to revive the state, both ethically and fiscally. He needs to prevail in both endeavors if he's to succeed at all. —– Governor Paterson delivered the other half of his blunt message to New York on Wednesday. Not only is the absence of ethics in state government a disgrace, […] [Read More]
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Obscene songs and objectionable dance performances on stage during temple festivals had led to the police to stop issuing permission to such programmes with immediate effect, said Superintendent of Police M. Manohar here on Tuesday.
Following complaints from villagers of Palamedu that some youngsters indulged in eve-teasing in an inebriated condition during a temple festival, the police visited the place and averted a clash. A case was registered in this connection, police said.
In some other locations in Madurai Rural district limits, when women were carrying 'mulaipaari' as part of the Panguni festival, trouble arose when some youth indulged in teasing by playing obscene songs near the temple. Considering these issues, all station house officers had been instructed to ensure that celebrations at temples were conducted as per rituals.
Mr. Manohar said that from time immemorial only elders used to conduct temple festivals, be it in rural or urban areas. However, under the pretext of celebrations, many youngsters appeared to be indulging in activities that were offensive to the public. Though youngsters taking active role in temple festivals was welcome, public objected to playing obscene songs at the festivals. Last week, there were complaints when artistes staged a dance performance in an objectionable manner, a police release stated.
In the larger public interest, it had been decided not to accord police permission to playing songs (obscene) and staging dance performance in temple festivals. "We will take stringent action against organisers who conducted events without seeking permission from the police," the SP warned.
Police officers in Madurai Rural district said that the timely presence of large posse of police averted a clash between two groups of youths who were in an inebriated condition at a temple festival near Melakkal recently. Many youths attempted to settle scores with rival groups through temple festivals.
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This eagerly anticipated exhibition, celebrating its 20th milestone year, is dedicated to enhancing the public's awareness of fine contemporary craft while providing a venue for established and emerging artists to share their creative endeavors. Craft Forms is internationally recognized as one of the premiere contemporary craft exhibitions. The finest works of ceramics, wood, fiber, metal, glass, mixed medium and 3D printing are featured, supporting the Center's mission of expanding the public's awareness of fine contemporary crafts, and significantly benefiting all educational and outreach programs for children and adults.
Jurors:David R. McFadden
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Bruce W. Pepich Executive Director and Curator of Collections of the Racine Art Museum
Juror's Talk with David McFadden and Bruce Pepich, December 6, 2014
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In addition, this year's companion exhibition will embrace craft in our interior environment, titled, Living with Craft. This series of craft-inspired lifestyle vignettes will feature local, regional, nation and international craft artist's ingenious master works staged among idealist furniture, lighting, floor coverings, decorative and functional objects. The concept for this companion exhibition, Living with Craft, (and to help celebrate our 20th year of Craft Forms) is to demonstrate to viewers just how craft can be aesthetically and successfully integrated into several contemporary living environments. Our thought was to select furniture makers to design the core area of a living space and then coordinate various craft makers who work in glass, fiber, metals, ceramics and mixed media to complete the lifestyle venues. Nakashima Woodworkers, Thomas Moser, Bradford Woodworking and Michael Brolly, who are all Philadelphian artists, as well as Vivian Beer and Matthias Pliessnig, are a few of the artisans thus far who have agreed to create furniture vignettes.
Along the outer gallery walls, Wayne Art Center teacher, Lauren Daddona will present a body of her students' work that will featured abstract paintings for purchase titled, Beyond the Brush. Workshops, demos and artist lectures are planned for December into January.
Highlighting some of the fundraising events for Craft Forms, the annual Holiday Shopping Day will run on Saturday, December 13, 10:00 am-4:00 pm. This year over 25 local artists will offer unique, "artisan to home" handcrafted artworks for sale. Due to prior success, the shopping weekend will again offer local restaurants and caters cuisine samples and sale of food items.
The Gallery Shop is offering all newly crafted works made in the USA which are perfect for holiday gift giving. To highlight some of the merchandise, the shop will include Leni Hoch and Polonova textiles, Young Kang and Michael Smyser ceramics, Paul Woolf wood, Pittsburg Glass Center works, and numerous fine jewelers, plus many more fine craft artists.
Hours are Monday thru Friday from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. There is a suggested $5.00 contribution to view Craft Forms 2014 and Living with Craft.
The Wayne Art Center would like to thank the major sponsors of Craft Forms 2014: Leading sponsors, Janssen, Wellness & Prevention, Inc. A Johnson & Johnson Company, First Priority Bank, The Bryn Mawr Trust Company, Complete Financial Outsourcing, C. Raymond Davis & Sons, Inc. Alan McIlvain Company, Thos. Moser, Oliver Heating & Cooling, Little Black Dress, Ice Bars Luges Logos, Main Line Media News, Radnor News, Chester County Life Magazine, County Lines Magazine, Wayne Magazine, The Wayne Hotel, Radnor Hotel, and many other community business sponsors and generous patrons. The funds raised through business sponsors, patrons, attendees, and art sales greatly help benefit the Wayne Art Center's educational and outreach programs.


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Quintas del Mar is an Ocean Front, 90 unit Condominium located in the NorthWest area of Mazatlan, facing the Playa Bruja, a 41/2 miles of uninterrupted beach that stretches its golden sand from the El Cid resort with its yacht port to Sabalo Point.
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So far five Pilot Flying J employees have pleaded guilty for their roles, while Haslam has denied any wrongdoing. Two others have reportedly been granted immunity by federal authorities.
The revelation comes as more lawsuits have been filed against Pilot Flying J, taking the count up to at least 20 since mid-April, with most of them being class actions.
One of the latest involves Alabama-based Wright Transportation, which has about 120 drivers. The case was filed in federal court in Mobile, Ala., naming Haslam and several other company officials as defendants.
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Mike, I agree. The Comments by J. Couture are absurd. Unless that's the way the north of our border frenchmen talk. I'd be embarrassed to put my name on something as crappy as that.
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There's a spectre haunting the technology and media world. Companies as powerful as Microsoft and Apple have seen it slash their margins and been forced to adapt. Those that couldn't have been brought to their knees, or even bankrupted.
That spectre is 'openness', the willingness to give away intellectual property for free, and now it's starting to hit educational publishing, too. The problem is 'open educational resources', or OERs, and already it's clear there'll be winners and losers.
OERs usually fall into one of two categories. In the case of things like MIT's OpenCourseWare or the Open University's OpenLearn, they can be resources – reading material, lecture notes, exams, or multimedia content – that other universities can use in their own courses, or which students can use for self-study. At the more sophisticated end of the market, though, they can be complete textbooks, available in their entirety online, that lecturers can recommend to students on their courses.
What both categories have in common is the fact the resources are free. What's more, they're almost always released under a 'creative commons' licence, allowing anyone who has the material to copy, share, modify or reuse it, provided they don't do so for commercial gain. All this is clearly a threat to publishers. But there's little obviously in it for the OERs' producers, either. So why is it happening?
In part, it's simply an altruistic response to the perceived high cost of materials. In the US, where OERs are gaining the biggest traction, textbooks are big business, with the market for new ones worth around $5.5 billion (£3.4 billion) and the second hand market worth around a third of that again. Academics have found themselves having to recommend books that can cost anything up to $200 each. In 2007 a US congressional advisory committee reported that the average student's textbook expenditure "can easily approach $700 to $1,000". All this has made free alternatives a very attractive prospect.
OERs can also have a number of benefits for higher education institutions, too, reckons the UK's university technology consortium, JISC, which has teamed up with the Higher Education Academy to run a pilot OER programme. So far it's found that OERs have the potential to increase student satisfaction, enhance the global academic reputation of the UK higher education system, and increase applications to UK courses from international and non-traditional learners. Good OERs can even promote individual lecturers, it found, by showcasing the quality of the courses on offer.
Leading the field here in Britain is the Open University, with its own OpenLearn and Apple's iTunes U services. These have been incredibly popular, says Peter Scott, director of the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute, and last year received 14 million visitors and 30 million downloads respectively. It's also working as a marketing tool. "We've tried to track cookie sessions to see if people have gone on to register for courses," says Scott, "and so far, there have been at least 6,000 registrations." That's more than 2% of the OU's 250,000 students – hardly insignificant.
So the motivation for universities is potentially strong. But there are obvious losers in this brave free world, too. Some businesses, such as CrossKnowledge, have invested millions in creating content to sell to universities for use in their courses. And mature university OER providers ambitions' can extend to more complex products such as textbooks and workbooks, impinging on more traditional publishers. Since October, for example, the OU has released 100 out-of-print textbooks a month through iTunes U (there are no plans to offer in-print books at present, says Scott).
As a result, says Nick Platts, chair of educational publisher Schofield & Sims, OERs are becoming a problem for the entire industry. After all, why would you buy a textbook when there's one available for free? "They're not good for a publisher," says Platts. "It's a bit like people writing a book and saying 'I don't want royalties on it' and a publisher saying 'I don't want to be paid.' It's not great at all."
Producing OER material does, of course, take time and money, even if it could save money in the long run. At the OU, Peter Scott says the creation of electronic OER material is now just a standard part of the university's production workflow, so separate figures for OER costs are not available. But MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative is clearer about its costs, and has an annual budget of $3.7 million dollars.
At the moment these costs are being subsidised: MIT pays for only half of that budget directly, with the rest covered by grants, corporate underwriters and donations. In Britain, the Hewlett Foundation has been responsible for a number of OER investments, while the Higher Education Funding Council for England provided the initial £5.7 million for the first phase of the JISC/Higher Education Academy's piloting.
But such subsidies can't be relied upon forever. Sarah Porter, head of innovation at JISC, asks, "In the longer term, how will we pay for this? What are the business models? People are worried about the bottom line." In other words, the big question is whether OER providers could create a self-sustaining model that could threaten publishers over the long term.
Flat World Knowledge, a US start-up created by two ex-Pearson employees, offers one promising OER business model. The company was seeded with $12 million of venture capital, and recently received $15 million in series B funding from Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments. The company, which now has over 100 authors under contract, makes its books available online for free as web pages under a creative commons licence. Anyone can edit them, print them off and use them. Despite the fact all this is free, Flat World co-founder Eric Frank predicts that the company will break even within two years.
The company has several revenue streams that'll help it achieve this feat. Flat World provides its books in a number of other formats, for devices such as mobile phones and e-book readers, and it also offers a printing service. All these the user has to pay for. It charges, too, for study aids, flash cards and other tools related to the textbook. Although the author gets paid relatively little to write the book, he or she gets 20% from sales of all these formats, even though the study aids are usually created by someone else. The company is also turning the creative commons licence to its advantage: anyone creating modified versions of the textbook is also able to give the work back to Flat World Knowledge and sell it through the company, getting a percentage of the royalties determined by the scale of the changes they've made.
Frank says the model is working well. "We're hitting about the same penetration rate [as other publishers] in courses at the moment: we're very close to less than half a per cent off, being used in over 900 colleges by more than
100,000 students in 44 countries." And although the company has made few efforts to expand overseas, its books are now being used by 80 universities around the world, including ones in the UK and China.
Flat World is not alone in embracing OER textbooks, and smaller companies in the US and Europe are producing books using similar models. The effect on mainstream publishers' margins is notable. "A drop in price of 50% is the predominant response," Flat World's Frank says.
Schofield & Sims' Nick Platts says the value added by his company is what now differentiates it in the market. While Flat World and other professional OER publishers might be producing high-quality materials, the 'bittiness' of most OERs, which frequently only cover parts of courses, means adoption of these OERs also takes additional resources to make them usable. "What we're finding is we're persuading schools that dropped workbooks years ago to take them up again," says Platts. "They have so much more structure than those pulled down willy nilly off the internet."
But this message, notes Flat World's Frank, isn't one that other publishers are shouting too loudly, particularly in respect to his company's texts. "They try to broadcast the message that our content is no good. But more than half our authors are their authors, so they can't push that message too hard."
Another response from the publishers has been to offer traditional books in new formats. In part to combat OERs, Macmillan and other publishers have begun to offer e-books, in response to student and faculty demand. A consortium called CourseSmart, including Pearson, Cengage Learning, McGraw-Hill Education, Bedford, Macmillan and John Wiley & Sons, claims to offer 90% of core textbooks in electronic formats at much cheaper rates than print, usually through a rental model in which the ebook is no longer readable after a certain time.
But this is unlikely to be a panacea for the problems OERs are bringing. Paper is still the most popular format for books, according to the US's National Association of College Stores, with digital books making up just under 3% of textbook sales (although that should rise to 10-15% by next year as more titles become available). So the central problem remains: the high cost of mainstream publishers' quality publications is increasingly unattractive when compared to the zero cost of the quality OER publications.
It's clear that OERs are here to stay and are going to continue their slow revolution of education. Although mainly popular in the US and poorer countries at the moment, their effect is likely to continue to spread to the UK and Europe in the next few years. Publishing companies are going to have to change how they distribute and sell their books, or potentially cut costs and profits to deal with the arrival of 'open' competition. There may well be casualties along the way.
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