December 2010
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The Holden Caulfield mix tape. →
Love, love, LOVE it. Perfect for the disaffected youth hiding from the family in his/her room on Christmas.
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The problem with e-books on the Sabbath. →
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The Storyville app delivers a short story each... →
Looks like they have a great lineup of short stories, but personally, I’m holding out for the Novellaville app.
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Robert Darnton: Three jeremiads on the library. →
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Amazon attempts to chip away at Apple iTunes'... →
Courage? Or foolhardiness?
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jordynmyah asked: Hi there,
Just so you know, the Tiny Book of Tiny Stories is already on sale. They just begin shipping on the 14th. Although the books themselves just arrived from Iceland, so they may be shipping sooner.
Just so you know, the Tiny Book of Tiny Stories is already on sale. They just begin shipping on the 14th. Although the books themselves just arrived from Iceland, so they may be shipping sooner.
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Hong Kong's best indie bookstores. →
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E-books not exactly taking off in India. →
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Romance readers clutch e-books tightly to their... →
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Foner Books blog defends self-published e-book... →
Antireintermediation. Say it with me three times now.
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Mike Cane's Christmas e-reader shopping guide. →
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E-books may be polluted by ads in the near future. →
I hate the idea, but I’d really like publishing to make REAL money.
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Study shows that iPad owners read the news on... →
Well, I try to read the internet on my Macbook 20 out of 24 hours a day. So there, predominantly well-educated, affluent (Caucasian) men between the ages of 35 and 64 who tend to be early adopters.
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No surprises there - the Kindle store is the... →
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“Paige and I always meet on effusively affectionate terms; and yet he knows...”
– The Autobiography of Mark Twain (vol 1), page 106. MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID THAT YOU GUYS (via bookavore)
This is gold. As soon as I’m done with Every Man Dies Alone, I’m getting this autobiography.
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Wannabe "it" social reading website Book Army did... →
I signed on a couple of years ago, as I was a slightly dissatisfied member of both Library Thing and Goodreads. Book Army was a disappointment right from the start - paltry selection of titles and authors - so I just never went back after a couple of visits. Maybe it got much, much better, but it was too late for me.
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Software engineering and business development... →
I should have majored in Computer Science instead of freaking Government.
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Foner Books blog: The Kindle public domain... →
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3 books you will find on Google Books but not... →
You’ll need to do much, much better than that to get me to switch to Google Books. Whoever succeeds in persuading Virago or Persephone to digitize their backlists will win my undying loyalty.
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Figment.com Aims for Young Readers and Writers →
fwriction:
As a writer, reader, editor, and teacher, I love this idea:
Figment.com will be unveiled on Monday as an experiment in online literature, a free platform for young people to read and write fiction, both on their computers and on their cellphones. Users are invited to write novels, short stories and poems, collaborate with other writers and give and receive feedback on the work...
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Germans may spend €1 billion on books over the... →
Wow. That’s a lot of books.
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“It’s not just because of technology, our whole society has become relatively...”
– Richard Nash interviewed on Jewcy
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San Francisco is for (book) lovers. →
Brb, busy memorizing every single word, detail of this article.
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Google Editions to launch pretty darn soon. →
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The iPad will defeat the Kindle this holiday... →
November 2010
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