July/August 1998 | Contents
False Content: Why
Modern Books Err So Often
And what can be done
by Steve Weinberg
Aug - CJR - Rarely have so many serious books been challenged in such detail on accuracy grounds. In our May/June issue, cjr examined the many charges of errors, intentional and unintentional, against the best-selling Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Hundreds of other current
nonfiction books stand convincingly accused of transmitting falsehoods, and some of them make Midnight seem noncontroversial.
For example, Sleepers, written by former New York Daily News reporter Lorenzo Carcaterra and published by Ballantine in 1995. Despite a widespread belief among reviewers that Carcaterra invented accounts of youthful crimes committed by himself and others, the book became a
nonfiction bestseller, went into paperback, and was made into a Hollywood movie.
Such episodes call into question the widely held assumptions that books are society's most reliable record, and that the serious nonfiction system weeds out those who break the rules. If authors write, literary agents represent, editors approve, publishers distribute, retailers sell, and consumers buy inaccurate books, something is badly wrong. But what?
A few mistakes are understandable. Jonathan Kwitny, a top investigative reporter, says in the acknowledgements of his 754-page biography of Pope John Paul II, Man of the Century, published last year by Henry Holt, that "I hope anyone who finds an error will very calmly inform me of it so I can seek its correction in any later editions." But the problem lies not with careful authors like Kwitny. It lies with authors, editors, and publishers who fail to set up defenses and fail to correct errors.
source: http://www.cjr.org/archives.asp?url=/94/2/border.asp
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1066 and all that: how Hollywood is giving
Britain a false sense of history
A survey of the historical knowledge
of the average adult, to be published this week, has uncovered "absurd and
depressing" areas of ignorance about past events, and confusion between
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The 3 Rs: Reading,
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(Embeded) RFID Tags track BOOK Customers shopping
CNET News.com
May 08, 2003
How long a customer spends wandering round a shop or browsing through a book is being studied for retail insights in a trial involving RFID tags
The wandering path taken by a browsing shopper inside a store in Japan may soon be mined for retail insights through a radio frequency identification (RFID) tracking system.
By placing tag readers on the shelves of bookstores, the new system allows booksellers to gain information such as the range of books a shopper has browsed, how many times a particular title was picked up and even the length of time spent flipping through each book,
Full Story at: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,2134438,00.htm
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RFID
Tags: Universal Tracking: What
is RFID ?
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"Booksellers in Great Britain hope to use RFID chips to track
each book's transaction, from publisher to wholesaler and retailer to
customer."
RFID Tagging - Books
For reference librarians, scanning endless bar codes is as
tedious a daily task as dealing with stolen, lost or overdue library books.
Now, a wafer-thin, microchip-based tag the size of a postage stamp could
ease their workloads.
Librarians can affix materials with security tags that contain microchips
and an antenna that transmits information to a wireless reader using radio
frequency identification (RFID) technology.
Unlike bar codes, which need to be scanned manually and read individually,
radio ID tags do not require line-of-sight for reading. Multiple tags can be
read simultaneously, through packaging or book covers.
Full Story at: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52493,00.html?tw=wn_story_related
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Privacy issues raised as San Francisco
Libraries plans chips’ use
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3 - A civil liberties watchdog group is
expressing concern over the San Francisco Public Library’s plans to track
books by inserting computer chips into each tome. Library officials approved a
plan Thursday to install tiny radio frequency identification chips, known as
RFIDs, into the roughly 2 million books, CDs and audiovisual materials patrons
can borrow.
Full Story at: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3131173/
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When Library Books Track the
Users
VTLS Inc., a company that specializes in library automation and integrated
archival systems, has signed its first customer for its newest product: a system
that automates parts of the book-handling process using RFID - radio frequency
identification - to track books as they travel through a library.
Each book is equipped with a paper-thin
"smart" label, a two-square-inch tag that encases an RFID chip.
Scanners at various points in the library process read the labels and update the
library's database with each book's whereabouts.
Source: http://www.g3.net/crc/npr/Book%20smarts.htm
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- STOP R.F.I.D - 2006
Among the "confidential"
documents available
on that web site are slide shows discussing the need to
"pacify" citizens who might question the wisdom of the Center's stated
goal to tag and track every item on the planet,
along with findings that 78% of surveyed consumers feel RFID is negative
for privacy and 61% fear its health consequences.
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