October 2010
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Oct 28th
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The Barnes and Noble Nook goes colour. →
But “Nookcolor”? Really? Ghastly.
Oct 27th
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Eoin Purcell on launching an online community and... →
Oct 27th
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Publishing niches, backlists, marketing fuel... →
This is what I like to hear.
Oct 27th
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French bookstore chain FNAC enters the e-reader... →
Oct 25th
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Future-proofing e-books. →
Oct 25th
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Oct 25th
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Oct 25th
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Spiersblr: Kindle vs. iBook: Amazon loses because... →
spiers: To be honest, I use my iPad mostly as an eBook reader. And i’ve never historically liked interfaces for ebooks on tablets, so I didn’t anticipate that I’d like ebooks until they were transmitted electronically and wirelessly onto Tyvek-like paper that directly mimicked paperbacks. I was wrong; I…
Oct 25th
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Oct 22nd
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University of Chicago Press giving away a free... →
Oct 20th
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Oct 20th
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Oct 20th
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Oct 20th
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“What problem does the enhanced eBook solve? Not a consumer problem, it’s...”
– from Convergences, Real and Imagined: A Conclusion by Richard Nash. See also: “…and then it came to me—the data about the book business is poor because there is no such thing as the book business. Yup. The book business doesn’t exist. There is no book business.” (via bookavore)
Oct 20th
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Oct 17th
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Oct 17th
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Oct 13th
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Oct 13th
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The Kindle travels well: won't weigh you down,... →
Oct 11th
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Oct 9th
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Oct 8th
“I will defy all the naysayers who say the Internet produces a lot of crud to...”
– Richard Nash at Housing Works Bookstore (via housingworksbookstore)
Oct 8th
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Oct 8th
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Oct 8th
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Oct 8th
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Oct 8th
Oct 8th
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There is such a thing as drunk e-book buying. →
Officially crushing on Elif Batuman. Going to buy The Possessed for my Kindle right now, which is another way of cramming an already-crumpled mash note into her hands before running off.
Oct 6th
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Digital edition of Allen Ginsberg's Howl formatted... →
I usually close one eye to little editing hiccoughs in e-books, but this is really quite terrible.
Oct 6th
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Book cover design resources for authors with the... →
It’s really just “Google ‘public domain images’”. *self-published authors
Oct 6th
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Pricing e-books to match, or almost match hardback... →
Oct 6th
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How does one write 85,000 books? With a... →
Oct 5th
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Oct 5th
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Oct 5th
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Oct 5th
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Oct 5th
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The New York Public Library compiled a list of... →
Oct 5th
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Amazon ventures into Facebook e-commerce through... →
Amazon’s also released a plug-in that converts InDesign files into Kindle e-books. They’re really bent on conquering the internet, hey?
Oct 1st
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Oct 1st
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