John C. Lorenz is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, where he has worked on sedimentary and natural-fracture reservoir characterization issues. His work has focused on the Rocky Mountain region but has extended to reservoirs in other parts of the world. Lorenz earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University and joined Sandia in 1981. Previously he was with the P...

We develop an analytical framework to investigate the competitive implications of secondary electronic marketplaces which promote concurrent selling of new and used information goods. In secondary markets where suppliers cannot directly use second-hand goods for practicing intertemporal price discrimination, the threat of cannibalization of new goods by used goods become significant. We examine...

Contending that technologr, especially when it networks writers to other writers, is more than a mere scribal tool, this book presents 14 essays designed to ignite interest in technology as one of the material condit .ins of workplace writing contexts. After an introduction ( "Issues' Written Literacy and Electronic Literacy in Workplace Settini--" by Jennie Dautermann and Patricia Sullivan), e...

real need exists to use the benefits of modern technology intelligently to reduce the court backlogs. Cyber courts are a viable alternative to the endless delays that plague court dockets, but only if they succeed in making courts more efficient. This column deals with the Michigan Cyber Court, one state’s effort to streamline the judicial process through the intelligent use of new technology. ...

Electronic markets and automated trading have resulted in a drastic increase in the quantity and complexity of regulatory data. Regulatory analysis now includes detailed analysis of all messaging and communications related to electronic limit order books. New order types, intra-market behavior and other exchange functionality further complicate analysis. Data visualizations have proven to be a ...

Recent rapid growth in electronic book sales has raised a critical question for publishers and bookstores: do e-books cannibalize or increase print sales? In this article, we compare the best-selling titles sold on www.Amazon.com in print or electronic Kindle formats during the period from November 2007 to July 2010. Using econometric methods, we find that the cannibalization of print sales by ...

It is sometimes thought that the lottery paradox and the paradox of the preface demand a uniform solution (Hunter (1996) and Foley (1992), for example). Let us see why that appears to be the case. I am justified in believing that my lottery ticket—call it t1—will not win, on statistical grounds. Those grounds apply equally to any other ticket, so I am justified in believing of any other ticket ...

A PhD and medical doctor turned ethicist, Leon Kass calls himself an unlicensed humanist. Throughout his unique career he has sought to impact others and engage important cultural issues. This he has accomplished over the course of many years by studying biochemistry, teaching humanities, writing articles and books on ethics, and serving as chair of the President?s Council on Bioethics. Kass ha...

The demand for electronic books (e-books) and the e-book readers are complementary. On the one hand, the emergence of e-book readers such as Amazon’s Kindle has triggered the recent growth of the e-book market. On the other hand, several issues in the e-book market can affect the future of the e-book reader market. Considering this complementarity, this paper quantifies the impact of digital ri...

This paper explores the topic of electronic books (e-books) and the effect that these digital devices and other new technologies has on the publishing industry. Contemporary society often claims that the publishing industry is dying and that the innovation of the e-book will eventually sentence the printed book to death. But this study will show that such is not the case. While it is true that ...