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Go Read This | Inside View from Ireland: Rise of Social, Demise of Literary...
So Say We All! I’m concerned at the demise of literary reading–the reading of fiction, poetry, or plays. It has declined among all specified ethnic groups, at all educational levels, among all age...
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Go Read This | Let’s Talk About Books, Bay-bee | Bait ‘n’ Beer
Don Linn reminds us that it’s ALL ABOUT THE BOOKS: Those of you who know me are aware that I seldom gush over anything, but allow me to gush over this fine literary novel. I hesitate to use that term...
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Go Read This | Christopher Moore’s History News: HIstory of Technology
Smart AND simple! But some of us write and read on computer screens. For that, it still makes sense to have text lines that are not too long for comprehension and to have screens that can show us quite...
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Go Read This | Print or Pixels? Publishers Strive to Advance Both – NYTimes.com
There is so much else here, but this stat just astounds me! By the end of this year, 10.3 million people are expected to own e-readers in the United States, buying about 100 million e-books, the market...
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This Scares Me >> Amazon plans to launch 2 tablet PCs in 2H12
It’s a slightly unsettling and sinking feeling I get whenever I hear discussion about booksellers and others moving away from E-Ink based ereaders towards tablets. It’s not a hatred of backlit screens...
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Author, Niche & Power Shifts: What Pottermore MIGHT Point To
Mike Shatzkin has a fine post about the implications of the Pottermore move in terms of publishers and DRM: Without DRM, as Berlucchi explained, anybody can sell ebooks that can be read on a Kindle....
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Go read This | Binaries Aren’t Going to Work « Wordisms
It’s a day of good posts on publishing and books and how they are going to work: I often get annoyed at people ruing that the Internet has destroyed book culture, because this tends to clump blogs,...
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Go Read This | Google Nexus 7: ebooks’ sleeping giant finally has its own...
Nice piece from Tim Carmody over at The Verge. I think he’s asking the right questions and saying the right things. I’d note one small thing though, which is that ALL the tech giants have been using...
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Go Read This | The E-Reader Revolution: Over Just as It Has Begun? – WSJ.com
Think of it like the horseless carriage! I think that line about the real innovation is where it’s at: “The real innovation in e-readers has been giving consumers a convenient way to buy books,...
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Go Read This | Sathianathan to head Tesco’s blinkboxbooks | The Bookseller
It will be fascinating to see if big retailers (as distinct from booksellers) can further ebook adoption. I suspect they can and probably will, publishers should be hoping so anyway: Sathianathan said...
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Go Read This | It’s Almost Time To Throw Out Your Books | TechCrunch
Not sure I agree with all of this and certainly sure that his vision for the future is perhaps a little more simple than is likely, but worth reading: With luck we’re entering a world in which readers...
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Go Read This | MONSTER PORN: Amazon’s Crackdown On America’s Latest Sex...
There is literarlly NO accounting for taste: She branched into other genres, penning ebooks like “Taken By Pirates” and “Seduced By The Dark Lord,” but her “Cum For Bigfoot” series was the biggest...
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Go Read This | The unevenly distributed ebook future | Studio Tendra
Baldur Bjarnason (@fakebaldur) is in the middle of a writing spurt, which is good news for anyone who is interested in thinking about books, digital, readers and publishing. He’s a good thinker on...
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Go Read This | Sit Back, Relax, and Read That Long Story—on Your Phone –...
I’ve been doing most of my reading (books, magazines and websites) on my mobile for some time now (since I first got hooked on Kindle on an iPod Touch). I’ve felt that mobile is too easily dismissed as...
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Go Read This | Hugh Howey’s Report On Author Earnings
A smashing example of how data can both clarify and obfuscate. On balance this is a fantastic piece that brings much-needed information to the discussion and what is more provides a free download of...
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