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	<title>TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics &#187; Around the World</title>
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		<title>The Future Of Publishing In Microcosm &#124; The Increasing Internationalization Of Irish Publishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 13:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eoin Purcell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was a little unfair to Easons for the pronouncements of the company’s spokesperson and the tone of the article on its ebook strategy which suggested the company was about to embark on a  mission to build a rival platform to B&#38;N and Amazon, something that would surely have been a valiant, if doomed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bowker Research Shows Australia is a Global Leader in E-Book Adoption</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 13:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the press release by the Book Industry Study Group: &#8230;The Global eBook Monitor finds that men are slightly more likely to have engaged with the digital book market than women. The 18-24 age group leads in use, just a little ahead of those aged 25-34. However, that may change shortly. &#8216;Although current e-book use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worldreader starts camapign to send 1 million ebooks to Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 12:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the press release: Worldreader (worldreader.org), the non-profit transforming reading in developing countries by distributing digital books to children with limited access to literature, kicked off a campaign today with support from renowned soccer team FC Barcelona (Barça), asking people to help send 1 million e-books to students in sub-Saharan Africa. Using new technology and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italian Constitiution crippled by DRM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 14:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got the following email from Paolo Amoroso: Italian engineering Professor JuanCarlos De Martin @demartin has found that the Italian Constitution downloadable from the official government site is effectively crippled with DRM. It&#8217;s a PDF document that prevents content copying (not even for accessibility) and search engine indexing. Some details are available in this blog post:   http://ildebugger.com/2012/05/23/la-costituzione-drm-governo/   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ebooks book Bloomsbury&#8217;s profits</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 13:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the press release:  A slew of best-selling electronic books helped boost profits at Britain&#8217;s Bloomsbury Publishing (BLPU.L) as the book industry continues its shift to digital, and the firm said it would look to academic titles for a larger part of future growth. Bloomsbury, the publisher of the &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; series by author JK [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Further Thoughts On Waterstones And Amazon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 13:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eoin Purcell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I wrote a post that was generally favourable to the deal between Amazon and Waterstones: If I was to think of one single reason for the move being a good though I would say it is this, it allows Waterstones to stand still and observe for a little longer. The value of inaction is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CourseSmart introduces ecommerce platform for etextbooks in UK and Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/coursesmart-introduces-ecommerce-platform-for-etextbooks-in-uk-and-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 14:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the press release: CourseSmart®, the world&#8217;s largest provider of eTextbooks and digital course materials, today announced its continued international growth with the launch of an eCommerce platform in the UK and Europe. The platform provides students access to eTextbooks and digital course materials anytime, anywhere from any web-enabled device. Students in the UK and Europe will also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waterstones to sell Kindles</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/waterstones-to-sell-kindles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 13:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Shelf Awareness: Waterstones, the last major independent bookstore chain in the U.K., will begin selling Amazon Kindles and e-books in its nearly 300 stores this fall, the companies announced today.  Although Kindles are sold in a variety of bricks-and-mortar retailers, this is the first time that the e-readers are available in traditional bookstores. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ORBIS: the Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World models actual travel in the Empire</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/orbis-the-stanford-geospatial-network-model-of-the-roman-world-models-actual-travel-in-the-empire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 13:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Orbis website: Spanning one-ninth of the earth&#8217;s circumference across three continents, the Roman Empire ruled a quarter of humanity through complex networks of political power, military domination and economic exchange. These extensive connections were sustained by premodern transportation and communication technologies that relied on energy generated by human and animal bodies, winds, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CreateSpace Now Offers Independent Authors Zero-Cost, Inventory-Free Distribution to Amazon Customers in Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/createspace-now-offers-independent-authors-zero-cost-inventory-free-distribution-to-amazon-customers-in-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the press release: CreateSpace, an Amazon.com company, today announced that authors and publishers around the world can now use its independent publishing platform to distribute their books in Europe for free on Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es and Amazon.it. By using CreateSpace to distribute directly to Amazon, authors and publishers ensure that their titles are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International ebook antitrust lawsuits [infographic]</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/international-ebook-antitrust-lawsuits-infographic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 13:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Piotr Kowalczyk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Popular Soda, one of our favorite sites with ebook news, tips and reviews, have put together an interesting overview of ebook antitrust lawsuits against big publishers for an alleged ebook price-fixing scheme. Click on the image to enlarge and check the original post for the list of sources. Via Popular Soda. Read an ebook. Get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plastic Logic closes US office, exits e-reader business to make displays for others</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/plastic-logic-closes-us-office-exits-e-reader-business-to-make-displays-for-others/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/plastic-logic-closes-us-office-exits-e-reader-business-to-make-displays-for-others/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 07:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Financial Times reports (note: free registration or visiting via a Google News link required) that Plastic Logic is shutting down its US offices in Mountain View, California, and laying off a number of other workers in Germany, the UK, and Russia as exits the e-reader-making business to concentrate on making screens for other companies’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bowker: British Kids Read Their e-Books On a Bigger Screen &amp; More UK Adults Buying e-Books</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/bowker-british-kids-read-their-e-books-on-a-bigger-screen-more-uk-adults-buying-e-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Price, Editor of InfoDocket.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Bowker Announcement: British children aged 10 and under are reading e-books, but on laptops rather than designated devices like the Amazon Kindle.  Once they turn 11, they embrace the Kindle as their most widely used device for e-book consumption. These insights are courtesy of Bowker Market Research’s Understanding the Digital Consumer project, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stockholm Text &#8211; Scandanavia&#8217;s only dedicated English language digital-first publisher &#8211; launches</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/stockholm-text-scandanavias-only-digital-first-publisher-launches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/stockholm-text-scandanavias-only-digital-first-publisher-launches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 12:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the press release: As the only dedicated digital-first publisher in Scandinavia, Stockholm Text is set to publish 25 English language books for worldwide distribution in 2012. The first titles will be on sale as trade paperback and e-books on all leading platforms beginning May 15th. Stockholm Text has attracted some of the most popular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-book adoption still growing in UK</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/e-book-adoption-still-growing-in-uk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 00:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FutureBook has a piece looking at the rate of e-book adoption in the UK, which is still a few years behind the US but growing year to year. The first half of the article is a confusing flood of statistics, but it seems to conclude that, as of the end of 2011, e-book sales accounted [...]]]></description>
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