May 2010
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WSJ attempts to advise you on how to pick an... →
The article presumes you want your e-book collection to stick around for a bit. But it seems to me that if you really want the perfect e-book system, the best way to go about it would be to actually manage your expectations and be prepared for the fact that a computer glitch may just wipe out everything on your device.
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Tips from Amazon's Director of Author and... →
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J.K. Rowling changes her mind about e-books. →
More than three years ago, the multimillionaire creator of the Harry Potter franchise decided against releasing her babies as e-books amidst piracy concerns. Not any more!
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Book Industry Study Group finds e-book adoption is... →
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Pew research results: young 'uns more likely to... →
The study claims that young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 are “more vigilant” about their privacy compared to older internet users, but I think this awareness simply stems from the fact that they’ve grown up with the internet and have seen how their peers have been embarrassed or humiliated online. I think we’re supposed to be impressed by the fact that the young...
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Penguin and Amazon finish haggling over price,... →
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Which reminds me...
… I must skip all the way to Amazon.com (Not hyperlinking! I’m SO bold) because the Kindle version of the third Stieg Larsson book is out! The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest’s been available in Australia for months now as a trade paperback, but books are heavy, you know?
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Garrison Keillor on The DEATH OF PUBLISHING DOOM... →
Ay. I wish people I admire would shut up and do what they do best, like radio shows.
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A little audio slideshow about the history of 20th... →
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Umberto Eco on the future of the book. →
Take it with a grain of Szechuan pepper because it’s from, like, LAST century*.
*1997 to be exact!
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WSJ reports on the digital tsunami heading towards... →
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Best. Story. Ever.
In a pram in a forest by Sandra Juto:
We were in the forest.
I don’t remember this, but my mum told me all about it when I got older.
I thought sitting in the pram was fun. My mum thought walking in the forest was fun.
She still does, she meets bears and picks berries etc. This particular day, the day I don’t remember anything of because it was before I was two and I don’t have memories....
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50 (mostly) book store blogs. →
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Why the iPhone didn't take off in China. →
As usual, it’s the carrier, stupid.
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Amazon launches imprint for translated literary... →
Hey, Amazon? I graduate in June. How about a job fetching coffee for you guys so I can snuggle up to these books?
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Stanford University preps for the Bookless Library... →
A few choice titles will be retained.
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More on that ginormous China Mobile e-book... →
Looks like there are quite a few Chinese e-readers in the market already. Heh, do they come with a censorship function that deletes illicit material?
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Bob Miller explains why he thinks HarperStudio... →
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MBAs don't care for the Kindle DX for school, like... →
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11 reasons why Google has won the e-book market. →
I suppose one has to be able to make bold claims like these just to be published even if they don’t half make sense. Reisinger’s eleventh reason is that “Google has good business sense.”
Google understands what it takes to be a success. It evaluates markets, determines what’s missing and sets out to slowly, but surely, do what it must to dominate.
And Apple and...
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Japanese publishers still lukewarm about e-books. →
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China's (and the world's) biggest cellphone... →
Whoa. They don’t need no stinkin’ Apple or Amazon.
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WSJ: Google will start selling digital books by... →
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