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Forgot to Turn off your Kindle in flight? You’re not alone!

Juli Monroe — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:47:29 +0000

The Consumer Electronics Association released some interesting data yesterday about electronic devices on planes. • Ninety-nine percent of flyers bring a portable electronic device on a flight with them. That’s a lot of gadgets! • Thirty percent of them have forgotten to turn off a device at some time. Whoops! Another interesting breakdown is this: The study [...]

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The Most Well-Read City in America

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:30:35 +0000

One of the cool things about this age of digital book-selling is the ability it gives retailers to compile and aggregate statistical information. In that vein, Amazon has released its annual list of ‘well-read’ cities—determined by “compiling sales data of all book, magazine and newspaper sales in both print and Kindle format since June 1, 2011, [...]

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Best-Read Cities, According to Amazon

Juli Monroe — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:15:39 +0000

I had to write about this since the number 1 spot was taken by my neighboring city, Alexandria, Va., and the 18th was also a Virginia city, Richmond, where my son is in school. Go VA! Here’s the complete list, compiled by Amazon, and based on sales numbers of books, newspapers and magazines, both print and [...]

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The Annual Calibre Library Cleanup, and What I Learned This Year

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:15:05 +0000

Every year, at around this time, I do a big e-book purge. Something about March Break brings out the spring cleaning demon, and when I need a break from cleaning my physical home, I curl up with my Macbook and tackle my digital one. My goals in years past have been to clean up metadata [...]

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Check out Book Bub, a great book recommending service

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:47:49 +0000

On the advice of a TeleRead commenter, I’ve spent the last two weeks trying out a book recommending service called Book Bub. So far, I’m enjoying it. Book Bub’s premise is simple: When you register (it’s free), you select from an offering of genres that interest you, and every day, Book Bub sends you an [...]

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The curious incident of the books on the Kindle

Aggregated Content — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:03:53 +0000

If you had a pile of 300 books in your house waiting to be read, what would you do? Would you go out and buy any more books? I doubt it, even if you could battle your way to the front door. Yet if you’d got 300 books on your Kindle/iPad/other e-reader, would you [...]

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Check out my first-ever e-book reader!

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:26:27 +0000

I mentioned earlier that it’s been spring cleaning week here. Well, in amongst one of those random boxes of this and that, I unearthed this gem: my first-ever e-book reader! Back when I purchased this puppy for $50 plus shipping off eBay (a fortune!), it was 2005 and I was living in New Zealand for [...]

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Mexico’s illiteracy problem is growing worse

Dan Eldridge — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 20:48:47 +0000

For years now, whenever reports from Mexico have popped up in American news outlets, the stories have almost always revolved around the seemingly endless homicides that are taking place in the northern reaches of the country, where many of Mexico’s infamous drug cartels are based. But an op-ed about one aspect of the Mexican cultural [...]

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Are We Devaluing Books?

Juli Monroe — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:50:35 +0000

It’s a snowy day in our nation’s capital, and watching the flakes fall has made me contemplative. I’ve been reading a number of historical and fantasy books in worlds and times where books were rare, precious and valued. I can’t help but contrast that to today, when people can download thousands of free books to [...]

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Social Reading the Wave of the Future? Maybe Not.

Juli Monroe — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:00:01 +0000

I’ve been seeing lots of articles about social reading and how it’s the wave of the future for e-book discovery. CBC News had a lengthy article on the topic, and Digital Book World weighed in on it yesterday. (Incidentally, enough with the Fifty Shades references, OK guys?) While social discovery makes for fascinating news [...]

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An Ad Model That Might Not Suck?

Juli Monroe — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:16:16 +0000

Last month I wrote about eBookPlus, a startup that wanted to make books free, with ads. To say I wasn’t thrilled would be an understatement. Most of you who commented on the post agreed with me. Forbes had an article today on another startup, HitBliss, that might actually have it right. From Forbes: The Lexington, Mass. [...]

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Brazil’s first Read an E-Book Week mobilizes publishers and booksellers

Aggregated Content — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:55:48 +0000

Starting next Sunday, March 3, readers across Brazil will have one more reason to know and experience the digital book—a reason they feel in their pockets. Booksellers, publishers and authors promote the first “Semana do Livro Digital,” a local version of Read an E-Book Week, a traditional online event that’s been running since 2004. [...]

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Time will create authorial greatness in the e-book era

Susan Lulgjuraj — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:54:24 +0000

Love or hate e-books, so many people at least have an opinion on the topic. Rich Adin at the blog An American Editor writes, “Are eBooks the Death Knell of Authorial Greatness?“ Adin is an e-book reader, but he seems worried that authors may never be considered great again because of the physical absence of books. “Part of [...]

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TeleRead selected as an Essential Site for Voracious Readers

Dan Eldridge — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:38:35 +0000

TeleRead was the recipient of a rather flattering honor earlier this week. On Wednesday, we were informed that we’d been featured on the just-published list of 100 Essential Sites for Voracious Readers, which is curated by Masters in English, “a site dedicated to helping students find the right graduate-level English program.” “We built this list for [...]

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A Radical Proposal: Let’s Make Books Fun Again!

Joanna Cabot — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:00:28 +0000

I read a lot of news stories as part of my work for TeleRead, and lately, I’ve noticed that many are dominated by a decidedly gloomy tone. Apple gets sued. Readers get sued. All five of the big publishers get sued. Then there are the copyright squabbles, the fair use disputes, author’s rights, reader’s rights, corporate [...]

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