November 2010
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Geek.com: Google releases a free children's book... →
The book reads like a picture book written as a Christmas present from the Google Chrome team to its children, and in fact it is: the collective Chrome team is the book’s author, and we — the users — are their children.
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Xinhuanet.com: Digital Publishing Asia Pacific... →
Display Search, a global market research and consulting firm, forecasts China will overtake the United States as the world’s largest e-reader market before 2015, by virtue of the country’s large population.
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The Frisky: Writer Tawni O’Dell Comes Out Swinging... →
The photographer told her, “We need to tease her hair. I want glitter. Lots of glitter, and the clothes will have to go.” She replied, “You want me to be naked?” The photographer ignored her. “I see swaths of tulle billowing out behind her and hanging in the tree branches like a morning mist,” he said. So she took her clothes off and was sprayed with glitter while she thought to herself, Did...
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The Mainichi Daily News: National Diet Library... →
With the growing popularity of tablet PCs and e-book readers, and the parallel growth in the e-book market, the National Diet Library has opened hearings with publishing industry groups on building a system for the collection of electronic materials.
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“There’s something wonderful about reading the books of the past and realizing...”
– Caille on “Why everyone should read the great books”
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“I’ve always loved books, all my life. When I was a clerk at Scribner’s bookstore...”
– Patti Smith, accepting the National Book Award (via mallory-moon)
“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a...”
– — Jeanette Winterson
Ms. Winterson explains a very big reason as to why print can never die. Or at least I like to think it’s a big reason.
(via therealkatiewest)
I have this addiction/obsession.
(via missworld)
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Media Bistro: Publishers Expect eReader Holiday... →
Unlike last year when prices were high and selection was low, eReaders are looking to be a hot gift item this holiday season. With the Kindle and the Kobo at $139 and the new Nook Color at $249, among a handful of other eReaders on the market…
Do you plan on giving someone special an eReader this year? Do you have an eReader on your wish list?
Full Disclosure: I returned my eReader...
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KansasCity.com: World's worst job? Book censor in... →
According to government figures, there are about 7,000 publishing firms in Iran today. Even if only 1,000 of those publishers delivers five books a year for approval, that’s 5,000 books a year the censors must wade through.
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PC Mag: New York Times to debut eBook Bestseller... →
Beginning in early 2011, the Times will publish e-book fiction and non-fiction best seller lists - both online and in its print edition. The paper has published best seller lists since 1935.
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Chicago Times: Eco-Libris' Green Books Campaign →
Founded in 2007, Eco-Libris plants trees to offset paper consumed by the publishing industry. The company, working off the idea of ex-libris bookplate decals, creates small labels (yes, they are printed on recycled paper) to affix to books in order to indicate sufficient trees were planted to balance its printing.
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NPR: Former President Bush's Memoir Sells 220,00... →
Random House Inc. announced Wednesday that opening-day sales, which include preorders and represent 95 percent of accounts reporting, was the publisher’s highest for nonfiction since former President Clinton’s My Life debuted with 400,000 in 2004.
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FOX News: Pedophile Guide Author Confident E-Book... →
Greaves, a 47-year-old retired nurse’s aide in Pueblo, Colo., said Thursday that nearly 300 copies of his self-published e-book were sold on Amazon.com’s Kindle Store in the past day, prior to its disappearance from the site. He said he also received more than 3,000 complaints about the $4.79 e-book, which seeks to make “pedophile situations safer for those juveniles that...
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The Independent: Bookseller has never finished a... →
Sam Husain, the chief executive of London’s best-known book store, Foyles, has no such compunction. “I do not think I have ever really read a book from cover to cover,”
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Every Best books of 2010 Post, ever. Updated... →
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New York Times: October's Best Selling Political... →
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Daily Finance: Borders' New 'Low Price Promise'... →
And based on what DailyFinance has learned, store-level employees are not exactly thrilled by what executives at the company’s Ann Arbor, Mich., headquarters have cooked up just in time for the holidays: a new “customer satisfaction initiative” that promises to match the lowest price available elsewhere at a brick-and-mortar store. But busy customers should pay attention:...
