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Netflix Abandons Plan to Rent DVDs on Qwikster - 0 views

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  • Davia Grant on 11 Oct 11
     
    I guess they realized "some" of the errors of their ways.
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Book Business Sees a Bonanza in a Forthcoming Biography - 0 views

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  • Davia Grant on 11 Oct 11
     
    Steve Jobs' biography, by Walter Isaacson, set to be released, by Simon & Schuster, in 2 weeks.
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DC Comics offers Amazon exclusive digital sales - 0 views

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  • Michael Pogachar on 10 Oct 11
     
    Barnes & Noble will not carry DC graphic novels for four months after DC gave Amazon exclusive digital rights to sell them on Kindle devices.
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Apple unlikely to be major seller of Steve Jobs bio - 0 views

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  • Michael Pogachar on 09 Oct 11
     
    The number of sales of the Steve Jobs biography will be comparatively small for the iBookstore. Publishers and analysts say the iBookstore is still relatively unknown to the general public, especially compared to all the other apps on an Apple screen.
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Transitioning to a Digital Future - The Library Today (Library of Congress) - 1 views

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  • Elizabeth Mack on 08 Oct 11
     
    Library of Congress is hosting a symposium on digital media and preservation on Oct 20th.
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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Whose book is it, anyway? - 2 views

www.roughtype.com/...whose_book_is_i.php copyright Kindle annotations
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  • arnie Grossblatt on 07 Oct 11
     
    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

www.nytimes.com/...g-joins-e-book-revolution.html e-books tablet
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  • arnie Grossblatt on 05 Oct 11
     
    A classic cookbook becomes an e-book after working though a number of technical problems.
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California enacts digital book privacy law - 0 views

www.pcmag.com/...0,2817,2394064,00.asp California reader privacy
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  • Michael Pogachar on 04 Oct 11
     
    Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that will extend privacy protections currently in place for library records to book purchases, including e-books. The Reader Privacy Act of 2011 will require government agencies to obtain a court order before they access customer records from book stores or online retailers.
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Target Now Selling Nooks - 0 views

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  • Michael Pogachar on 04 Oct 11
     
    Target is the eighth retailer to sell Barnes & Noble's Nook Color and Nook Simple Touch e-readers.
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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The remains of the book - 1 views

www.roughtype.com/...the_seethrough_1.php reading e-readers Kindle books
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  • Elizabeth Ralls on 02 Oct 11
     
    Nick Carr (of "The Shallows") is skeptical of the Kindle Fire's new "X-Ray" feature. He writes, "A person of the web may see X-Ray as a glorious advance. A person of the book may see the technology as a catastrophe."
  • arnie Grossblatt on 03 Oct 11
     
    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

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/...tant-trend-in-publishing-today publishing trends
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  • arnie Grossblatt on 03 Oct 11
     
    Interesting survey of opinion on publishing trends from the blogging crew at Scholarly Kitchen.
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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
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  • 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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Daring Fireball: Amazon's New Kindles - 2 views

daringfireball.net/...amazons_new_kindles Apple Amazon Kindle iPad tablet e-book publishers
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  • arnie Grossblatt on 29 Sep 11
     
    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

online.wsj.com/...4138204576599184167246882.html ebook reader publishers Kindle Amazon
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  • arnie Grossblatt on 29 Sep 11
     
    Amazon's Kindle strategy: subsidize the device by selling content. In theory a good proposition for publishers.
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