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Derik Dupont

Small Stores See Google as Ally in E-Book Market - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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Google E-Books Web Books Publishers Google Editions Digital Amazon Ingram Baker & Taylor

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  • Derik Dupont on 30 Jun 10
     
    Google may soon become the primary source of e-books on the Web sites of hundreds of independent booksellers.
Derik Dupont

Amazon adds audio, video to Kindle iPhone app | Digital Media - CNET News - 0 views

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Amazon Kindle iPhone Apps Audio Videos E-Books iPad iPod Touch Books

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  • Derik Dupont on 30 Jun 10
     
    Kindle for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad can now display embedded video and audio clips for Kindle e-books, courtesy of the latest upgrade to the app. Read this blog post by Lance Whitney on Digital Media.
arnie Grossblatt

Reading in a Whole New Way - 1 views

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reading e-readers e-books books. Gutenberg priint

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  • arnie Grossblatt on 26 Jul 10
     
    Kevin Kelly on how screen reading is changing the act of reading and transforming readers.
arnie Grossblatt

On Covers - Tools of Change for Publishing - 1 views

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Books e-books design

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    Cover design in the age of ebooks.
arnie Grossblatt

Hard times for traditional books as China's digital publishing industry grows - Books, ... - 2 views

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  • arnie Grossblatt on 06 Aug 10
     
    And an astonishing 91 per cent of the 20,000 people polled in the survey said they would now not bother to buy printed books if they could find a digital version.
  • Brian Suszek on 06 Aug 10
     
    I use my Kindle / iPad for all of my reading. Once I began using them, a strong preference for reading on them developed.
arnie Grossblatt

The royalty math: print, wholesale model, agency model - The Shatzkin Files - 3 views

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  • While we’re in a time where digitizing for epub is an extra step, not a simple alternative output of an XML-based pre-press process, the ebook seems freighted with extra costs
  • arnie Grossblatt on 27 Aug 10
     
    Good review of the costs and royalties for books in different formats.
arnie Grossblatt

Will the Book Survive Generation Text? - 1 views

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  • This shift, of course, plays into the problem, since any shrewd publishing type can see how the paper book's demise might make it easier to digitally trim, abridge, and repackage texts in more "appealing" forms than their benighted authors envisaged.
  • A useful text with which to muse on this subject is Robert Darnton's The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future (PublicAffairs, 2009).
  • arnie Grossblatt on 03 Sep 10
     
    A reflection on threats to sustained, immersive reading and the culture that produces it.
Natalie Barnes

Watch a trailer for "It's a Book" - 0 views

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trends books book.trailer

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  • Natalie Barnes on 25 Sep 10
     
    Apparently ebooks and other electronic devices so dominate the world of children that there's a need for a children's book designed to explain what a print book isn't.
arnie Grossblatt

Library Inc. - - 2 views

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  • Yet libraries, the intellectual heart of universities, have become perhaps the most commercialized academic area within universities, with troubling implications for the future of higher education.
  • Through innocuous incremental stages, academic libraries have reached a point where they are now guided largely by the mores of commerce, not academe.
  • Over the last decade, however, as the number and cost of journals have soared, most libraries have decided to forgo purchasing hard copies. The shift from owning a journal to merely providing access to its digital incarnation has, of course, saved some money. But those savings come in tandem with detrimental changes both to the content of library collections and the ways those collections are used.
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  • According to both the professional literature and information-vending companies' usability studies, a library's chief task is to meet the information needs of its patrons
  • For university libraries, retrieving what is known should be only the beginning. They are laboratories of the mind, unique places where questions that have never before been asked can be formulated and answered; they are centers of teaching where patrons can learn about the organization and the production of knowledge
  • or universities, the libraries' experience is a cautionary tale. Commercial practices, technologies, and innovations often seem to benefit and support the academic mission of universities. But commercial innovations are not value-free, and it has proven very difficult for libraries to embrace some components while rejecting others.
  • arnie Grossblatt on 04 Nov 10
     
    Interesting, if a bit unbalanced, about the corruption of university libraries by commercial publishers and the pressure of "good enough" information in a Googlized world
Stephanie Wynn

Oprah Endorses Amazon.com's Kindle -- Oprah Kindle -- InformationWeek - 0 views

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Oprah Winfrey e-book reader kindle Oprah Amazon e-reader e-book

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  • Stephanie Wynn on 29 Oct 08
     
    Of course we talked about this in class, but what I find more interesting than Oprah's endorsement is all the comments at the end of the article. Several posters don't even acknowledge Oprah's new-found interest, but are just extolling Kindle's virtues. My guess is that, until the Kindle's price is a little lower, those folks who just like to get what Oprah has might not go for it. But the more "techie" folks might get one -- or already have one -- regardless of what Oprah thinks.
arnie Grossblatt

A book as Christmas gift? Here's a smarter idea | csmonitor.com - 0 views

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  • arnie Grossblatt on 23 Nov 08
     
    Bookswim aims to be Netflix for books. Comments on this article from book authors are worth reading.
Thelisha Woods

Book Publishing -- Is Your Child the Next Best-Selling Author? - MSNBC Wire Services -... - 0 views

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Children Childrens Books Book Publishing Child Author MSNBC

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  • Thelisha Woods on 23 Jan 09
     
    An interesting and cute story on the trend of children becoming published book authors. After reading, I really feel like I have no excuse for not finishing my book - enjoy! :-)
Thelisha Woods

The Excuse for the Laughable State of ePublishing | Chamber Four - 0 views

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E-Books DRM Digital Rights Management E-Book pricing

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  • Thelisha Woods on 05 Feb 09
     
    This article discusses the problems with e-book pricing and DRM. Something to think about!
Amanda Litvinov

Washington Post Is Folding Its Book Review Section - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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washington post book review books

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  • Amanda Litvinov on 29 Jan 09
     
    The title says it all. Boo!
  • Thelisha Woods on 29 Jan 09
     
    It sure does! That is not good news.
Derik Dupont

Macmillan?s DynamicBooks Lets Professors Rewrite E-Textbooks - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Textbooks Books Digital E-Books Macmillan Publishers DynamicBooks CourseSmart iPhone Apple iPad Barnes & Noble Education

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  • Derik Dupont on 22 Feb 10
     
    Macmillan is introducing software that will allow college instructors to edit digital editions of textbooks without consulting the original authors or publisher.
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