August 2010
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More or less, less is more when it comes to... →
Aug 28th
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Aug 27th
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Aug 27th
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Bookavore: SUBJECT OF RESOLUTION: The relative... →
Marry me, bookavore! SUBJECT OF RESOLUTION: The relative statuses of mainstream, literary, and genre fiction SUBMITTED TO: The reading public and publishing industry SUBMITTED BY: A reader THIS READER, ALARMED BY an increasingly vitriolic set of discussions regarding different types of fiction and how they are…
Aug 26th
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Aug 26th
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Intimidated by NaNoWriMo? There's always the 3-day... →
Aug 26th
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Aug 26th
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Aug 26th
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“The way to fight print circulation declines isn’t to move away from good print...”
– Newspapers: Don’t be the web | Howard Owens (via paulbalcerak) (via archivedigger)
Aug 26th
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Aug 26th
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The Man Booker Prize has its own "app". →
Video, author interviews, text extracts… doesn’t let you vote though. Boo.
Aug 26th
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Aug 26th
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Aug 25th
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Aug 25th
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“Among early adopters, e-books aren’t replacing their old book habits, but...”
– Geoffrey A. Fowler and Marie C. Baca, The ABCs of E-reading, WSJ Online
Aug 25th
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Aug 25th
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Aug 25th
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Germany's largest book chain, Thalia, will launch... →
Aug 25th
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Kindle 3 leaves rivals choking in the dust (for... →
Aug 25th
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How to build an e-bookstore. →
Aug 25th
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Q2 e-book sales lower, agency pricing a possible... →
Aug 24th
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Tumblr's passed the 1 billionth post mark,... →
Aug 24th
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Aug 23rd
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Aug 22nd
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Aug 22nd
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The iPad excels at children's books. →
Aug 22nd
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Aug 22nd
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Aug 21st
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Aug 20th
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American consumers, feel free to donate older... →
Aug 20th
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Aug 20th
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Aug 20th
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Aug 20th
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Aug 20th
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India's first e-reader is called Wink. →
Aug 20th
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“Dan Visel, a founder of the appropriately named Institute for the Future of the...”
– Linton Weeks, Books have many futures, NPR Thank you, NPR, for not making this about books “dying”.
Aug 19th
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James Patterson made $70 million in a year... →
He also signed a contract last year to complete 17 books by the end of 2012. If you’re able to, I guess why not…
Aug 19th
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Nigeria's Farafina Books publishes books by... →
This: Simidele Dosekun, chief operating officer (COO) of Kachifo, who runs the day-to-day business, adds it is critical for Nigerians to publish themselves, because “For too long, we have been misrepresented by others, especially by those who came and still come with colonizing, paternalistic and exploitative agendas. We have thereby to an extent lost touch with ourselves, our histories, culture...
Aug 19th
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Aug 19th
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Aug 19th
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Michael A. Stockpole on 9 must-have clauses for... →
Aug 19th
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Aug 18th
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Aug 18th
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“Recent research has shown that, in the US, it is those who are already the...”
– Will the book enter the digital age? An interview with Pascal Fouche, Eurozine. A very long but thoughtful, nuanced, non-hyperbolic discussion on the publishing industry’s future.
Aug 18th
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Aug 18th
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