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Amazon creates a hybrid cloud bthat works with private enterprise services - one for Dean!

Amazon deleted books from users Kindles without their knowledge

The net is tangled. You can't avoid evil (well companies you don't like) because of the background hosting. Interesting read.

A huge danger in linking your accounts together over multiple services - and in not backing up your data. It's the cloud - be afraid, be very afraid.

"Booktype is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any ereader within minutes. Create books on your own or with others via an easy-to-use web interface. Build a community around your content with social tools and use the reach of mobile, tablet and ebook technology to engage new audiences."

RT @marksmithers: Good analysis of Google's Course Builder by @PhilOnEdTech http://t.co/wNTJ0TGD #MOOCs

"Real teaching is not about passing on the 'the material', as if knowledge were some sort of mass-produced commodity that ships from Amazon. Real teaching is about conveying a way of thinking. How can a teacher convey a way of thinking when he doesn't genuinely think that way?"

A study of how University of Washington graduate students integrated an Amazon Kindle DX into their course reading provides the first long-term investigation of e-readers in higher education.

Interesting chart showing the negative effect "in copyright" has on book sales. Also talk by Prof Paul Heald explaining the effect.

"As Apple's iPad continues its strong sales pace, the touchscreen tablet has narrowed the gap with Amazon's Kindle in terms of e-reader hardware market share."