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Book: A Futurist's Manifesto | Just another PressBooks site - 4 views

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A very interesting collection of essays on the future of the book and publishing. Free to read online and available in print from O'Reilly.

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Wired for Sound - 0 views

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reading books

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Is listening to an audiobook "reading" the book? Why do we tend to think that one form is "true" reading?

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The Readable Future - 1 views

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web reading publishers

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As online publishers look to increase ad revenue, readers look to ways of removing ad clutter and a better reading experience.

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Penguin withholds new e-books from UK library suppliers - 1 views

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e-books DRM copyright libraries

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This follows a decision by Penguin US to withhold new e-book titles from libraries.

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Newspaper Circulation Figures Show Some Digital Growth - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Ad Companies Face a Widening Talent Gap - 1 views

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Get your resumes revised - the ad companies need your digital publishing skills.

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The Great Debate from The London Book Fair - The Publishing Point - 0 views

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The proposition "All that matters are authors and readers; publishers will soon be irrelevant" is debated in a video from the London Book Fair.

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Amazon Rewrites the Rules of Book Publishing - 3 views

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amazon publishing self-publishing disintermediation business model

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He pointed out, though, that the landscape was in some ways changing for the first time since Gutenberg invented the modern book nearly 600 years ago. “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader,” he said. “Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity.”
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arnie Grossblatt on 17 Oct 11

Amazon move one step deeper in the territory of publishers. Publishers should be very very scared, as they rethink their value-add for authors.

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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Whose book is it, anyway? - 2 views

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copyright Kindle annotations

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Thoughtful analysis of the questions raised by Amazon/KIndle automatic annotations of e-book content via the X-Ray feature on the Kindle Fire.

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Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' Joins E-Book Revolution - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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e-books tablet

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A classic cookbook becomes an e-book after working though a number of technical problems.

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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The remains of the book - 1 views

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reading e-readers Kindle books

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Nicholas Carr, author of "The Shallows", raises another alarm about enhanced reading tools for e-books, but what doesn't like may be just what others find most compelling about e-books.

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Ask the Chefs: "What Do You Think Is the Most Important Trend in Publishing T... - 1 views

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publishing trends

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Interesting survey of opinion on publishing trends from the blogging crew at Scholarly Kitchen.

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Daring Fireball: Amazon's New Kindles - 2 views

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Apple Amazon Kindle iPad tablet e-book publishers

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Interesting analysis of the iPad and Kindle Fire and discussion of what it might mean for publishers.

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Magazine Publishers Reach Deals With Amazon's Kindle Fire - WSJ.com - 1 views

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ebook reader publishers Kindle Amazon

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Amazon's Kindle strategy: subsidize the device by selling content. In theory a good proposition for publishers.

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xkcd: Sharing - 5 views

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Anticipated Amazon Tablet to Take Aim at Apple iPad - 0 views

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Amazon tablet iPad e-books e-readers publishing

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Tablet wars? Speculation on the Amazon tablet expected to be announced 9/28

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How to Use Free to Drive Your Marketing Strategy | Michael Hyatt - 2 views

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free marketing publishing

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Some very practical advice from a publisher on how to use free.

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Four years into the ebook revolution: things we know and things we don't know - The Sha... - 2 views

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Reflections on the e-book years after the introduction of the Kindle.

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Amazon's Kindle to Make Library E-Books Available - 1 views

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e-books Kindle Amazon libraries

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More coverage of Amazon's decision to make Kindle e-books available through public libraries.

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Kindle Books for Public Libraries - 2 views

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amazon drm ebook reader digital divide

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Amazon announces that 11,000 libraries are now set for loaning Kindle e-books to patrons. How much of library budgets will go to support a reading format that only the relatively well-off can use?

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