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Amazon started life as a book retailer, and as a book retailer they made books cheaper. Then they were pioneers in the e-book industry where they made books cheaper. Their recently announced plan to give readers free e-book copies of books they buy in physical form doesn't make books cheaper per se, but it does give readers greater value for their book-buying dollar. This is all great stuff. But not everyone agrees. Emily Gould complains that "When ebooks and pbooks are bundled, the ebooks are sold at a loss. That's authors', publishers' and, associatively, non-AMZN retailers' loss" and "frustrating we have to keep explaining that ebook production is not free. digital objects are not made by elves."

An interesting hypothesis on how B&N is faring in the digital age.

If electronic books are the future-literary volumes optimized for the Kindle, the Sony Reader, the iPhone-how come two of this fall's hottest books won't be available in digital form anytime soon?

Great article about alternatives to peer review

A reflection on threats to sustained, immersive reading and the culture that produces it.

Article on the strength of newspapers in Japan and yet the certainty of their decline. Interesting difference between Japan's newspapers and US newspapers - Japanese newspapers don't put all their content on the Web for free.

This article discusses how to turn the e-ink cover of Esquire into a working clock. There is also a brief discussion of the cover and how it works, as well as pictures of the cover.

Great interview with the always interesting Tim O'Reilly.

LAST spring, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas acquired the papers of Bruce Sterling, a renowned science fiction writer and futurist. But not a single floppy disk or CD-ROM was included among his notes and manuscripts. When pressed to explain why, the prophet of high-tech said digital preservation was doomed to fail.

The fabulous online comic xkcd is coming out in a print format book. Tag line could be "Publishers? We don't need no stinking publishiers!"

Washington Post had to cancel series of meetings with lobbyists, etc., because of fears they violated ethics.

is the crowd better source of cooking information than a master chef? Could your next cookbook be a wiki?

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