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Amazon's Kindle gets fired up - Entertainment News, Anne Thompson, Media - Variety - 0 views

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Amanda Straub on 19 Sep 08

Is Amazon's Kindle the new iPod? The end of book publishing as we know it? Or one too many in a pile-up of trendy gadgets and gizmos?.Anne Thompson, news from the entertainment source: Variety.Amazon's Kindle gets fired up.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Is Amazon's Kindle the new iPod? The end of book publishing as we know it? Or one too many in a pile-up of trendy gadgets and gizmos?.Anne Thompson, news from the entertainment source: Variety.Amazon's Kindle gets fired up.</div>

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QA: Hobbit Director Guillermo del Toro on the Future of Film - 0 views

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Read about the latest Entertainment News on Wired.com, including art, technology, films, animation, music, web video, tv, podcasts, and blogs.

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Rob A. on 01 Jun 09

Non-linear storytelling engines and Ulysses in one article. Bam!

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Study: Digital To Be One-Third Of Entertainment And Media Spending In 2014| paidContent - 0 views

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Get Ready for Google's New Wave Act - Advertising Age - DigitalNext - 1 views

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shared by Derik Dupont on 30 Sep 09 - Cached

Derik Dupont on 30 Sep 09

With Wave, Google is integrating email, instant messaging, media sharing, social networking, document creation, project management, and entertainment.

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

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 06 Aug 10 - Cached

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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.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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. </div>

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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.

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Mother sues author daughter over abuse claims - MSN Entertainment News - 0 views

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shared by Helen Nam on 18 Nov 08 - Cached

Helen Nam on 18 Nov 08

Author of best-selling 'misery memoir' sued by mother over claims of childhood abuse. Heart-rending "misery memoirs" are a booming genre in publishing, and this is not the first time an autobiography's truth has been questioned.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Author of best-selling 'misery memoir' sued by mother over claims of childhood abuse. Heart-rending "misery memoirs" are a booming genre in publishing, and this is not the first time an autobiography's truth has been questioned.</div>

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2010 seen good for TV, bad for e-readers| Reuters - 1 views

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shared by Derik Dupont on 20 Jan 10 - Cached

Derik Dupont on 20 Jan 10

LONDON (Reuters) - The television will dominate home entertainment for another year in 2010, showing more staying power than newspapers and even their digital reincarnation the e-reader which could both

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Ignore the Doomsayers: The Book Industry Is Actually Adapting Well - 1 views

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 26 Oct 12 - No Cached

The publishing industry isn't a monolithic thing: some publishers are doing well and others are not. ... I don't see an industry that's flailing—I see one that's managing a complicated transition much better than would be expected."
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arnie Grossblatt on 26 Oct 12

Publishing is adapting, not disappearing.

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Has Kindle Killed the Book Cover? - 1 views

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Good Writing Isn't Enough: How to Sell a Book in the Digital Age - 0 views

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shared by Allison Hughes on 11 Jan 12 - No Cached

London School of Economics: piracy isn't killing big content; government needs to be sk... - 0 views

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 05 Oct 13 - No Cached

arnie Grossblatt on 05 Oct 13

Claims of damage from IP piracy are overstated according to a study by the LSE,

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The best books of 2008 | Pick of the pile | The Economist - 0 views

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 10 Dec 08 - Cached

arnie Grossblatt on 10 Dec 08

For those looking for some holiday (and beyond) reading.

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Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004 - 0 views

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shared by Stephanie Wynn on 23 Oct 08 - Cached

Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago.
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Scroll down Technorati's list of the top 100 blogs and you'll find personal sites have been shoved aside by professional ones.
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ssional ones. Most are essentially online magazines:
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When blogging was young, enthusiasts rode high, with posts quickly skyrocketing to the top of Google's search results for any given topic, fueled by generous links from fellow bloggers. In 2002, a search for "Mark" ranked Web developer Mark Pilgrim above author Mark Twain. That phenomenon was part of what made blogging so exciting. No more. Today, a search for, say, Barack Obama's latest speech will deliver a Wikipedia page, a Fox News article, and a few entries from professionally run sites like Politico.com. The odds of your clever entry appearing high on the list? Basically zero.
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Further, text-based Web sites aren't where the buzz is anymore. The reason blogs took off is that they made publishing easy for non-techies.
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Twitter — which limits each text-only post to 140 characters — is to 2008 what the blogosphere was to 2004.
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And Twitter posts can be searched instantly, without waiting for Google to index them.
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Publishers ponder the market for Bush memoirs - 0 views

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shared by Helen Nam on 06 Nov 08 - Cached

Helen Nam on 06 Nov 08

Presidential memoirs are normally a big seller, but Bush may want to wait for a while before seeking publication of his memoirs.

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David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists - and Megastars - 0 views

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 24 Aug 08 - Cached

arnie Grossblatt on 24 Aug 08

How to survive in the era of free content, pirated content. Written for musicians but contains lessons for publishers as well.

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Atlantic article on e-book publishing, rights, etc. - 1 views

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Books With Soundtracks: The Future of Reading? - 1 views

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shared by Allison Hughes on 31 Aug 11 - No Cached

Allison Hughes on 31 Aug 11

The new website Booktrack is one of many recent attempts to combine music and literature.

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Are There Too Many Books? - 0 views

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