April 2011
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Apr 29th
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Update at (Page) 11: Letting Readers Know About... →
Some e-books are published with plenty of errors, and others might have other reasons to be updated over time—especially non-fiction books in fields subject to new discoveries. And it would seem that e-books should be easily changeable at need, given their malleable, re-downloadable nature. But at present, none of the major commercial e-book vendors really supports much in the way of e-book...
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From the "It's about the content, man" files... →
F+W Media is adding to its family of vertical segments and in the process getting in the fiction market with the launch of F+W Crime. To launch its newest community, F+W has acquired Tyrus Books and hired its founder, Ben LeRoy, as publisher and community leader.
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Google can't be trusted with our books →
The threat to Google Videos shows businesses are not suitable cultural custodians – they can’t be held accountable to the public
Apr 27th
“There must be some author somewhere that is demanding higher royalties as a...”
– David G. Hartwell, Senior Editor at Tor Books
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5 Myths About the 'Information Age' →
bookron: bibliofeminista: Confusion about the nature of the so-called information age has led to a state of collective false consciousness. It’s no one’s fault but everyone’s problem, because in trying to get our bearings in cyberspace, we often get things wrong, and the misconceptions spread so rapidly that they go unchallenged. Taken together, they constitute a font of proverbial...
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Can Sony Cut It As A Tablet Brand With Its Two New... →
Sony itself has been laying the groundwork for a huge range of content services, covering areas like music and video with cloud services like Qriocity, and its e-book service, Sony Reader, which already gets used on its e-reader devices. These are natural complements, and key differentiators, for their tablets.
Apr 26th
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“We are working to make sure that every e-book that is in a library’s...”
– David Burleigh, a spokesman at OverDrive
Apr 26th
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E-Pub Hubbub →
The e-book trend is driving new digital self-publishing initiatives
Apr 26th
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“The different covers of the books I used to read, with their different...”
– Harry West of Continuum Innovation. West is dissatisfied with how generic the Kindle reading experience is. He considers it lacking a capacity for personalization, which he considers a key stage in the design process.
Apr 26th
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Nook color gets apps in new update →
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Last typewriter factory left in the world closes... →
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“The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak...”
– Umberto Eco
Apr 25th
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juliettetang asked: Thank you for reblogging my photo. I love your blog. <3 Juliette
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Is the Digital Economy Act now unstoppable? | News... →
techspotlight: ISPs fail in their bid to overturn “kangaroo court” law Read more: http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/is-the-digital-economy-act-now-unstoppable—945766#ixzz1KFxZrPxS
Apr 23rd
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McSweeney takes on The Future of Books. →
2020: All Books Will Be Cross-Platform and Interactive. Future “books” will be bundled with soundtracks, musical leitmotifs, 3-D graphics, and streaming video. They’ll be enhanced with social bookmarking, online dating, and alerts from geo-networking apps whenever someone in your locality purchases the same book as you— anything so you don’t have to actually read the...
Apr 23rd
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“K12 Teacher Store”: an ebook store for teachers →
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“In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were...”
– Aldous Huxley (via nathanielstuart)
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“The latest report from the Association of American Publishers, compiling sales...”
– Association of American Publishers It is important to note that though the eBooks numbers are impressive, in context they are largely influenced by eBooks unique sales pattern. Post holiday device loading comes during one of the traditionally lowest print book retail months. Still impressive but...
Apr 20th
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The Death of the Book →
bookron: lareviewofbooks: via (everyweekness) Ben Ehrenreich Image: Dirty Book #1 © Tom Benedek 2011 Pity the book.  It’s dead again.  Last I checked, Googling “death of the book” produced 11.8 million matches.  The day before it was 11.6 milion.  It’s getting unseemly.  Books were once such handsome things.  Suddenly they seem clunky,  heavy, almost fleshy in their gross materiality....
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“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that...”
– Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death, p. vii (via chiquidracula)
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