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This is just an interesting article talking about how some good books can end up being disasters as movies. I don't agree with everything on the list because it is just opinion. It's also sad to see a good book turned into a bad movie because people's opinion of the book will be wrong.

The idea behind companies like "on demand books" is to preserve books as digital files and print them as they are needed. If you want to buy a book that is out of print, they can make you a brand new copy. This is a good example of how the internet is changing the way books are distributed.

This website is about a machine called the Espresso Book Machine. The machine is made to allow people to purchase books that are actually out of print. It is currently in many locations, and the website states that there are more to come! (Didn't realize that it had actually already been bookmarked, but oh well. It's a good site to check out, as Kyle pointed out to me.)

This discusses the fact that the "first sale" doctrine that applies to physical books, CDs, and DVDs does not apply to the e-books that people "buy" on the Kindle. Basically, it states that you cannot really allow someone to borrow your "books" on the Kindle and if you wanted to sell your "book" you would have to sell the "physical media where the 'original' download is stored."

I thought it would interesting to add the best book-to-movie adaptation list. Many people may have seen these movies and not even realized that a book existed.

This is a very popular book list. To be on the New York Times Best Seller list would be an accomplishment for any author. Interesting to note that on the first page two best sellers have currenly been released as movies.

This is an article that is discussing what is sure to become a hot new debate. If someone owns the right to the print version of a book, do they own the digital rights as well?

Copyright/information piracy is much older than the net, as a new book shows. There was copying and distributing centuries ago - and the people were responsible were called pirates! The current copyright regime didn't arrive until the 18th century and it entered into an existing culture of copying and pirating.

This article talks about the sales of the Kindle and the decline in traffic at the BookExpo America compared to previous years. It discusses the fact that publishing executives have worries concerning the development of this technology and at the same time mentions that the device has also gained fans in the publishing industry.

Online creative capabilities to use family photos for custom made books, posters, cards, invitations, and more.

Amazon is competing to be the first and only choice all authors might choose to sell their books as e-books as well. They will up the royalty for authors and publishers from 35 percent to 70 percent.

When I first started reading fan fiction, way back when I was about 12, Harry Potter was the first type of fan fiction I read. This article is older, but it concerns JK Rowling (author if the HP books) giving her consent to her fans abducting her characters.

An online article by Nicholson Baker about the Kindle and whether or not it is really an improvement on the book. He talks about his own experience after purchasing the Kindle and comments on other people's remarks about the device.

This website allows you to do anything related to the Kindle from buying one to simply learning everything there is to know about the Kindle. It not only has a list of the multiple books available to buy and upload on to your new Kindle, but a list of newspapers, magazines, blogs and news feeds as well.

This journal talks about the affects of multimedia on student learning at the elementary level.

Cory Doctorow discusses the Authors Guild's claim concerning copywright infringement. They claimed that "only the rightsholder could authorise an 'audiobook adaptation' of a book." The article deals with the Kindle's text-to-speech synthesiser.

SelfGrowth.com is one of many websites that make it possible for someone to research specific skills or techniques, such as lie detection. I find it interesting that the internet makes obscure information readily available. Decades ago it would have been fairly difficult to find books related to lie detection, or many of the other topics listed on Selfgrowth.com.

Though self improvement and self help books often provide corny or cliched advice, valubale knowledge often exists underneath. SolveYourProblems.com boasts a vast array of topics that one can research, from job interview advice to marriage counseling.