July 2010
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Winston Churchill Goes Digital →
archivedigger:
yessssssssss
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Bookavore: E-books article drinking game →
Cheap drunk that I am, I would NOT survive this game.
From Bookavore:
With sincere apologies if this has been done before, but I think this is the only way I can read another one of these. Maybe I might be cranky today!
“Will e-books wipe out/kill/decimate/pulverize/HULKSMASH/angry verb real books?” — one drink
Above question is lede — one drink
Every use of…
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Anne Rice unborned herself as a Christian. →
I guess she didn’t want to be Quaker, Unitarian, Episcopalian or Church of Swedenian?
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Penguin chief executive claims direct-to-consumer... →
Headlines like this get me all excited, then I click on the link to find that nothing very much has been said. Please, Mr Chief Executive sir, why won’t it work? Will it NEVER work? Enlighten us!
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Advertising - Barnes and Noble Plans Big Push for... →
mikecane:
In the end, there will be only two eInk devices left standing: the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes & Noble Nook. K format eBooks versus B&N-flavored ePub eBooks.
How Low Will E-Reader Prices Go? - Digits - WSJ →
Maybe they should forget the US market and go after others?
mikecane:
This is DOA. The new iPod Touch will wipe it out. If people want an LCD for reading, they want Apple, not some unknown.
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Oh, grow up.
There is nothing particularly noteworthy about this post by Richard Stephenson, only it begins with an anecdote about the author’s friend, an early adopter of the Kindle who is now ashamed to be seen with the device in public because it’s no longer the most fashionable gadget in town.
Sir, I’m going to have to ask you to turn in your adult badge, because you’re an...
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“… many students trusted in rankings above all else. In fact, a quarter of...”
– According to a University of Illinois, Chicago, study, today’s college students, the so-called “digital natives” are surprisingly poor at determining credible sources of information on the internet.
I’m also amused that Planned Parenthood is among one of the few...
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Amazon to set own e-book prices in UK Kindle... →
“Agency model? What agency model?”
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Poorly-defined magazine subscription policies... →
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Mike Shatzkin on Wylie vs. Random House. →
Many opinions out there, but I recommend this analysis over the blustering of irate traditional publishers, defensive Wylie or smug Amazon.
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Dan Brown smashed paperback records in the UK with... →
118,230 copies in THREE DAYS.
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Wealthy chick lit author Janet Evanovich switches... →
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“It’s true: On Amazon.com, you can only send a printed book to someone as a gift....”
– Why can’t you give Kindle books as gifts? - CNN.com (via mikecane)
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“Kessel says people have realized that the iPad might be good for a lot of...”
– Lyons, on the Kindle’s surprisingly strong showing. (via newsweek)
So true. I have a Kindle while my partner has an iPad. Whenever he sees me pack the Kindle into my handbag, he suggests that I bring the iPad instead. The iPad is a really nifty home media device, but I just can’t use it with...
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Mike Cane's Tumblr: Out There Versus In Here →
When was the last time someone came up to you in real life and said, “Oh, I just saw this thing on The Huffington Post that you must read.” Or: “Damn, you gotta see what TechCrunch just ran!”
How many people in the real world have heard of John Gruber? Doc Searls? Tim O’Reilly?
Now, how many…
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The China Publishing Group creates a separate... →
I’ve selected three quotes from the Publishing Perspectives interview that highlight how China’s approach to digital publishing differs from the US:
“We know from experience that merely setting up a sub-department to work on digital publishing is not sufficient.”
“The project requires an investment of RMB269 million ($39.67 million). This year we received RMB20...
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Nathan Bransford: Top 10 myths about our e-book... →
Good talking points.
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Accessories: Ernest Hemingway.
Designers can’t get enough of him.
From the Hemingway Footwear Company comes “The Permit” driving mocassins found in the “Literary Collection”. But if you’re a petite woman with small feet who’ll buy anything with a literary reference, you’re shit out of luck.
Alternatively, and more cheaply, you can just get Papa Hemingway’s duck-billed...
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“Write drunk; edit sober.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via wrthomas) (via basementlily) (via purveyorofnonsense)
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The Times paywall repels nearly 90% of its online... →
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On second thoughts, Amazon's e-book sales may not... →
Also, Sony Reader sales have tripled. Huh.
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Number of magazine launches halved in 2010, but... →
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Amazon's selling more Kindle books than... →
I find America’s attachment to the hardcover format rather quaint. In contrast, Australians don’t “do” hardcovers. First editions here come out as C format trade paperbacks (135mm x 216mm), almost as unwieldy as a hardcover but a lot lighter, which strikes me as a very sensible thing.
The weight of a book matters a great deal to me. I’m a one-book woman - when I...
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Tyler Brulee witnesses an iPad incident by a pool. →
People who read on their iPads in the sun by the pool are kind of asking for trouble.
There's now a "slow reading" movement. →
Since, you know, the internet turned us into lousy readers with poor grammar and spelling skills.
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Open Road Integrated Media will release Iris... →
It’s about time! I hope there’s more to come, and that ORIM will accept a list of authors whose titles I want digitized written IN MY BLOOD.
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Oprah's magic to go digital. →
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Author Douglas Coupland to collaborate with Roots... →
Better him than Lindsay Lohan, I guess…?
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Ryu Murakami to publish an iPad novel. →
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Taiwan's telecommunications operator Far EasTone... →
Just 5000 titles from 50 publishers so far, but it’s probably only for the company’s 6 million customers.
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Publishing top guns: industry must adapt to... →
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“Staff of the local paper Курьер.Среда (Kurer-Sreda) were immediately intrigued...”
– No resources? No problem: How a local Russian paper took on the New York Times :: 10,000 Words :: where journalism and technology meet (via interestingsnippets) (via archivedigger)
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Newsweek: In Which Time Inc. Rides on the Wall of... →
archivedigger:
An interesting perspective on Time’s sorta pay wall.
Like second marriages, Time magazine’s new, extra-confusing pay wall is the triumph of hope over experience. The company has tried this before, and the results were predictable: traffic to the Time Inc. sites cratered and the added revenue from forcing people to buy the print product didn’t…
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“bookshelfporn.com has dissuaded me completely from buying a kindle. thank you.”
– via Twitter.
Our evil plan to persuade people to not buy eReaders by posting amazing photos of books is working. Mwahahaha.
(via bookshelfporn)
I shouldn’t take this personally, and for all I know bookshelfporn may be kidding, but the business model for print publishing is FUCKED. I love...
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Japan's e-book market rose 24% in 2009. →
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“[…] to put it in one bleak sentence, no medium has ever survived the...”
– Clay Shirky on the newspaper’s eventual demise. 