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Books and Other Fetish Objects - 1 views

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books digital libraries

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Forget about the container - it's all about the content.

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Notes on Unbound Books - A Conference Report (Part I) « OPEN REFLECTIONS - 1 views

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copyright drm ebook reader publishing future of the book

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Report on a three day gathering of experts on books, publishing and reading, to collaboratively explore the future of the book and the transformation of reading, publishing and learning. Session videos are available.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Report on a three day gathering of experts on books, publishing and reading, to collaboratively explore the future of the book and the transformation of reading, publishing and learning. Session videos are available.</div>

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With 'Harry Potter,' Publishing Finally Has Its 'Radiohead Moment' | Epicente... - 0 views

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self-publishing

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Publshers? We don't need no stinkin publihers! Well if your name is JK Rowling you don't.

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The 100 greatest non-fiction books | Books | guardian.co.uk - 1 views

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Looks like we've all got some reading to catch up on. I wonder how many of these are available as e-books?

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Book publishers hope for sales boost from apps innovation | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 1 views

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e-books apps business model

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How lucrative are iPad book-apps? UK studio Ustwo revealed some figures at Thursday's Futurebook Innovation Workshop conference in London indicating that gold-diggers should probably focus on other app categories for now.
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The Nursery Rhymes app
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spent £60,000 making the app, it has so far sold 37,339 copies for a total of £24,048 in revenue.
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Hot Type: Publishers Say They Are Not the Enemy in University Copyright Disputes - Publ... - 0 views

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Every good ebook needs a good editor - 2 views

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ebook editor books authors self-publishing

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Risks of self-publishing. Authors working independently, without an editor willing to challenge, may be working against their best intrests.

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Apple Eases Rules for Publishers on Sales via Mobile Apps - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Publishers win a big one in confrontation with Apple. No more requirement that content subscriptions must go through Apple, no more 30% revenue sharing with Apple, and control of user/reader information remains w/publishers.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Publishers win a big one in confrontation with Apple. No more requirement that content subscriptions must go through Apple, no more 30% revenue sharing with Apple, and control of user/reader information remains w/publishers.</div>

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'Go the ____ to Sleep' Gives Akashic Books a Challenge - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Surviving sudden success in a small publishing house.

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Google's YouTube policy for Android users is copyright extremism | Technology | guardia... - 1 views

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Kindle typography - 2 views

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e-books design typography Kindle text ebook reader

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A List Apart: Articles: Web Standards for E-books - 1 views

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e-books design typography HTML epub standards

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On bringing design to e-books.

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Publishers Navigate The 'Open Road' Of E-Books : NPR - 0 views

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e-books backlist publishers

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New life for backlist titles.

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Go the Fuck to Sleep Goes Viral - 3 views

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DRM social media piracy

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A NSFW childrens' book is #1 on Amazon, despite (or because of) being freely available in PDF.

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E-textbooks flunk an early test - 1 views

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e-books reading e-readers books textbooks education

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Interesting report on adopting e-textbooks. Important to remember how early we are in the development of e-readers and that we have few texts developed explicitly for e-readers.

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Business Class: Freemium for News? - 1 views

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freemium newspapers news business model information architecture

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Interesting ideas on a "first class" experience for online news readers.

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Our Choice - 0 views

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iPad design apps e-books

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A review of the iPad app "Our Choice" - an interactive book by Al Gore.

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What We Can Learn from The Daily - 0 views

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design e-books apps

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Analysis of why Murdoch's "The Daily" app for the iPad seems to be a failure.

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The "book" is dead [dive into mark] - 1 views

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e-books Google piracy DRM

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Challenges in the future of technical books.

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A Trove of Historic Jazz Recordings has Found a Home in Harlem, But You Can't Hear Them... - 1 views

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More toxic effects of copyright. Everyone loses.

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