The first ‘unglued’ (crowd-funded rights to make a book free to the world in e-format) is available for download under a Creative Commons licence. Oral Literature in Africa by Ruth H. Finnegan. Read Jan Holmquist’s article at Tame the Web to learn more about Unglue It.  

The Live Search team at Microsoft recently announced that they are winding up their Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects. “Given the evolution of the Web and our strategy, we believe the next generation of search is about the development of an underlying, sustainable business model for the search engine, consumer, and content [...]