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

www.nytimes.com/...30books.html Google E-Books Web Books Publishers Google Editions Digital Amazon Ingram Baker & Taylor
shared by Derik Dupont on 30 Jun 10 - Cached
  • 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.
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Will the Book Survive Generation Text? - 1 views

chronicle.com/...124115 books reading e-books
shared by arnie Grossblatt on 03 Sep 10 - Cached
  • 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.
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BookRiff Launch Set for October 6 - 1 views

www.publishersweekly.com/...-launch-set-for-october-6.html books ebook reader publishing
shared by Allison Hughes on 29 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Allison Hughes on 29 Sep 11
     
    New technology allowing users to create their own Commonplace Book: BookRiff, a Vancouver-based company that promises to allow consumers to mix print content and create their own books and e-books, is scheduled to launch Oct. 6.
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Vatican and Oxford libraries announce joint digital conversion of some manuscripts, books - 0 views

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shared by Matt Mayer on 17 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Matt Mayer on 17 Apr 12
     
    Vatican & Oxford libraries get 3.2 million to digitize 1.5 million pages of some of their oldest holdings!
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Visual Loop - Publishing in the Digital Era - Exclusive Infographic - 1 views

visualoop.tumblr.com/...ital-era-exclusive-infographic e-publishing book chart
shared by Kristen Iovino on 09 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Kristen Iovino on 09 Nov 11
     
    Chart of publishing in the digital era
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The Oxford English Dictionary Definitions of 'Print' And 'Digital' | Epicente... - 0 views

www.wired.com/...finitions-of-print-and-digital OED publishing books print online ebooks
shared by arnie Grossblatt on 31 Aug 10 - Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 31 Aug 10
     
    Speculation that the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary will be digital only.
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The real costs of digital - 1 views

bookbrunch.co.uk/index.php ebooks digital
shared by MJ Slazak on 03 Aug 10 - Cached
  • MJ Slazak on 03 Aug 10
     
    Interesting look at actual costs of books and how it relates to ebooks
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Emory University Saves Rushdie?s Digital Data - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...16archive.html Digital Costs Preservation Archives Smithsonian Institution Libraries Universities Emory University
shared by Derik Dupont on 16 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Derik Dupont on 16 Mar 10
     
    As research libraries and archives are discovering, "born-digital" materials are much more complicated and costly to preserve than anticipated.
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In the digital era free is easy, so how do you persuade people to pay? - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ree-persuade-pay-cory-doctorow copyright drm publishing e-books piracy business model
shared by arnie Grossblatt on 21 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 21 Apr 11
     
    The always interesting Cory Doctorow on business models for digital content.
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Book Places in the Digital Age « The Digital Digest - 1 views

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  • arnie Grossblatt on 27 May 12
     
    Rethinking the bookstore.
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Webcast: Digital Bookmaking - 0 views

oreillynet.com/1997 book design digital books pubies Web 2.0
shared by EPublisher Confesses on 10 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • EPublisher Confesses on 10 Nov 11
     
    Tim O'Reilly presents this webcast on digital bookmaking. I thought this would be fun for us pubies (new publishers). Its a perfect segway into our Monday class discussion. I might take a listen b/c this definitely interests.
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Macmillan?s DynamicBooks Lets Professors Rewrite E-Textbooks - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...22textbook.html Textbooks Books Digital E-Books Macmillan Publishers DynamicBooks CourseSmart iPhone Apple iPad Barnes & Noble Education
shared by Derik Dupont on 22 Feb 10 - Cached
  • 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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Amazon's Kindle reader breaks monthly sales record| Reuters - 0 views

www.reuters.com/...idUSTRE5BH08C20091218 Amazon Kindle Sales E-Readers Digital Sony Barnes & Noble
shared by Derik Dupont on 22 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Derik Dupont on 22 Dec 09
     
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday that its Kindle electronic book reader posted its best sales yet in the month of December, as the battle for the digital reader
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J.K. Rowling Just Transformed Book Publishing - 2 views

www.slate.com/...ansformed_book_publishing.html jk rowling ebooks ebook platform e-readers pottermore
shared by Ryan Holman on 27 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Ryan Holman on 27 Mar 12
     
    Via Joshua Gans, Harry Potter fans can now get their favorite books in digital format. But not from Amazon or the iTunes bookstore. Instead, the exclusive source of Potter ebooks is J.K. Rowling's Pottermore website where you're able to get them in formats that run on all major e-readers and tablets.
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Om Malik, Neil Irwin, and Nicholas Carr are Wrong: eBook Sales Aren't Flattening - The ... - 1 views

www.the-digital-reader.com/...g-ebook-sales-arent-flattening e-books sales
shared by arnie Grossblatt on 02 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 02 Sep 13
     
    A correction(?) to the previously posted not by Nicholas Carr on the flattening of e-book sales.
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Oprah mag's iPad edition to sell e-books - Crain's New York Business - 3 views

www.crainsnewyork.com/...100719929 digital editions ebook app oprah advertising Hearst magazines
shared by Stephanie Wynn on 17 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Capitalizing on Oprah Winfrey's huge role recommending books to her fans, the iPad edition of O, The Oprah Magazine, that's expected in the fourth quarter will let users buy e-books and read them within the app itself.
  • Hearst sees a lot more potential in iPad advertising than just reproducing and enhancing print ad pages.
  • once enough consumers own tablet computers, targeted and tailored advertising will be much more important
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  • Hearst is already seeing its digital ad rates increase steadily, partly because of its ability to serve ads to visitors based on their behavior and demographics
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Google Magazine Project a No-Cost Digital Archive (So Far) - emedia and Technology @ Fo... - 0 views

www.foliomag.com/...no-cost-digital-archive-so-far Google magazine Book Search copyright
shared by Amanda Litvinov on 26 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Amanda Litvinov on 26 Jan 09
     
    Google will include magazine content in its Book Search--but what will magazine publishers get out of it?
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