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Kids tablets: Toys “R” Us announces Tabeo
After reading books to her son on her iPad, a friend of mine became so dismayed by her toddler’s absorbed trance and alarming affinity for the touch screen that she marched to the library in technology...
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How YOU doin’? DBW launches social media dashboard for top publishers
Digital Book World (DBW) launched its Discoverability and Marketing social media dashboard today that measures the social imprint of top publishers. While the project is a great start, it looks like...
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AAP and Google reach settlement. After seven years of litigation over Google’s library book scanning, publishers have seen that ”Google has kept on scanning and indexing—and the sky did not fall.”...
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New age piracy: ask the right questions
Recently, one of the authors I work with was in touch with me because someone was torrenting his book. To paraphrase the email: “They’ve got my book on a site called something like ‘The Pirate Bay.’...
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Our hero?: Penguin Random House confirmed
This week I joined most of the publishing industry in the water cooler buzz about the recently-announced marriage of Random House and Penguin. (Also, of course, the blogosphere/social media/Internet...
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President TK: Ebooks, elections, and the drive for currency in the digital...
Source: Americanheritage.com We live in an Internet era. Information is cheap, fast, and easy, available almost as soon as our brains can tell our fingers to Google it. But the ready availability that...
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DBW power rankings. Two notorious love birds top DBW’s list of top ebook publishers. Amazon is gunning for Netflix and Hulu. By raising its Prime prices? Aggro. Print is not dead! Fetishists say so....
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The harder they fall? Amazon faces a succession of scrutiny as people draw...
Source: Amazon.com If you’ve been following any of the publishing news stories lately, most likely you’ve seen quite a few stories that report missteps, mistakes, and mysteries concerning the giant...
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Google turns vacuum cleaner into book scanner. Via Wired: As if scanning those 7 million rare and out of print books didn’t ruffle the feathers of enough opponents, we at least know how they avoided...
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San Antonio announces BiblioTech, a digital-only public library
Source: Mysanantonio.com Would you be inclined to take a trip to a digital-only library for your latest reading needs? This fall, perhaps residents in San Antonio will have that chance. Bexar County...
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What’s a MOOC? (And why should publishers care?)
Though they sound like they might have been cooked up by Seuss, MOOCs have been a hot topic in academic publishing lately. These “massive open online courses” are jut what they say: giant online-only...
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Will the indies succeed in making DRM illegal?
commons.wikimedia.org Last week, Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza, Fiction Addiction, and Posman Books—three independent bookstores who claim to represent “all independent brick-and-mortar bookstores who...
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Barnes & Noble in troubled waters
“It’s really scary for me that I covered the bankruptcy of a major book chain last year, and I’m kind of wondering if I might be doing the same thing next year, a couple years from now…” says...
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Goodreads: a second opinion (Part 2)
A day after I drooled with admiration over the mission of social book reading site Goodreads and their not-as-sketchy-as-Amazon’s book reviews, Amazon swept in and bought them. Cue the speculation,...
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