Pieces are not dreamed up by trained editors nor commissioned based on submitted questions. Instead they are assigned by an algorithm, which mines nearly a terabyte of search data, Internet traffic patterns, and keyword rates to determine what users want to know and how much advertisers will pay to appear next to the answers.
NookColor Rooting - nookDevs - 70 views
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This site will show you how to turn that Nook Color you got for Christmas into a full-fledged Android tablet. Costs a fraction of what the iPad costs and is rock solid stable. You can use the Android Marketplace to download apps like Edmodo.com for free. Insanely easy to do. This is NOT like jailbreaking your iPod/Pad. The Android Marketplace is completely legitimate and growing by leaps and bounds.
The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media... - 24 views
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To appreciate the impact Demand is poised to have on the Web, imagine a classroom where one kid raises his hand after every question and screams out the answer. He may not be smart or even right, but he makes it difficult to hear anybody else.
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But what Demand has realized is that the Internet gets only half of the simplest economic formula right: It has the supply part down but ignores demand. Give a million monkeys a million WordPress accounts and you still might never get a seven-point tutorial on how to keep wasps away from a swimming pool. Yet that’s what people want to know.
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E-Book Sales Rise in Children's and Young Adult Categories - NYTimes.com - 28 views
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now that e-readers are cheaper and more plentiful, they have gone mass market, reaching consumers across age and demographic groups, and enticing some members of the younger generation to pick them up for the first time.
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Kids are drawn to the devices, and there’s a definite desire by parents to move books into this format,” Ms. Vila said. “Now you’re finding people who are saying: ‘Let’s use the platform. Let’s use it as a way for kids to learn.’
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I didn’t buy it until I knew that the teachers in middle school were allowing kids to read their books on their e-readers
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"Ever since the holidays, publishers have noticed that some unusual titles have spiked in e-book sales. The "Chronicles of Narnia" series. "Hush, Hush." The "Dork Diaries" series. At HarperCollins, for example, e-books made up 25 percent of all young-adult sales in January, up from about 6 percent a year before - a boom in sales that quickly got the attention of publishers there. "
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Interesting to read how children are now increasingly choosing to buy eBooks and a role for schools.
Readlists - 149 views
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Create an ebook from a group of webpages. Send to Kindle, iPad/iPod, or download as an epub (for Nooks and other readers).
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This site lets you bundle web pages for mobile devices
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Take any bunch of web pages and turn them into an e-book. gone are the days when you photocopy readers. Now, e-publish! Weightless, instant, and free!
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