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		<title>The danger of the &#8220;easy route&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lyle Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From TechCatcher: When I first began selling ebooks, there was no Kindle store; Sony hadn&#8217;t yet begun to sell ebooks, and Smashwords was not yet heard of.  So there weren&#8217;t a lot of examples for a newbie like me to follow in setting up my site.  Fortunately, I knew HTML, so I was able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the 21st-Century University, Let&#8217;s Ban Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lyle Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the title of a Chronicle of Higher Education commentary by Marc Prensky, in which he suggests the first university to literally replace all books with electronic readers and ebooks will make history and usher in a new era of education. Why, in a world in which choice and personal preference are highly valued, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will E-Readers Eat the Tablet Computer? by Michael Mace</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/will-e-readers-eat-the-tablet-computer-by-michael-mace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a TeleRead Contributor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿The consensus prediction in the tech industry is that tablet computer sales will swamp sales of ebook readers. The Huffington Post is taking bets on which e-readers are dead meat (link), and Informa predicts that e-reader sales will start declining in 2014 as tablets out-compete them (link). I&#8217;ve seen similar (and more pessimistic) private forecasts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bounty Markets for open-access ebooks by Eric Hellman</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 04:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a TeleRead Contributor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January 1773, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart placed advertisements asking patrons to &#8220;subscribe&#8221; to the three piano concertos he was writing. If he received enough support, the concertos would be finished by April, and subscribers would receive beautifully copied manuscripts. More importantly, they would have the pleasure of supporting the creation of a great work, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Demand for Pirated eBooks Stopped Growing in 2010 by Eric Hellman</title>
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		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/piracy/consumer-demand-for-pirated-ebooks-stopped-growing-in-2010-by-eric-hellman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a TeleRead Contributor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note:  I&#8217;m pleased to welcome Eric Hellman to TeleRead.  ﻿ Eric is a technologist, entrepreneur, scientist and writer. After 10 years doing research at Bell Labs, he founded Openly Informatics, a linking technology business that was acquired by OCLC in 2006. Over the last year, he has been blogging about ebooks, libraries, and technology at Go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>eBooks: Libraries at the Tipping Point Online Conference Ray Kurzweil Keynote by Sarah Houghton-Jan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 05:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a TeleRead Contributor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kurzweil is a legend and it was fascinating to listen to him. The reality of information technology is that its growth is exponential. But our intuition about the future is linear in nature. This causes us problems in predicting the future accurately and being able to prepare for it. We’re at a point where eBooks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From an anonymous contributor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<title>Italian newspapers and the iPad by Alessandro Cecconi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a TeleRead Contributor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Italy, newspaper sales have been constantly decreasing during the last years, and it is quite discouraging to observe that public funding actually keeps the great majority of newspapers alive. If it did not exist, then most of them could only work at loss, with advertising revenues getting smaller and readers decreasing as well. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hawking the iPad by Meredith Greene</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/hawking-the-ipad-by-meredith-greene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a TeleRead Contributor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿My autumn Levenger catalog was received with bright-eyed fanfare this week and borne with anticipation over to ‘the writing couch‘. I reserve a few quiet moments each season to drool over the immaculately-designed, perfectly-balanced pens and muse inwardly on the various notebooks and book bags for which I harbor strong inclinations of purchasing. This particular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seamless integration of digital and physical spaces by John Miedema</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a TeleRead Contributor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The digital world has substance in its own right, but we invented digital technology to enhance our physical world. It’s funny how we forget that sometimes. Take ereaders. Ereaders like the Kindle, Nook, and Kobo are popular right now. They are nifty. You can download books, you can click from one page to the next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After 20 years of traditional publishing, Donna Fasano goes indie</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/teleread-contributor/after-20-years-of-traditional-publishing-donna-fasano-goes-indie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donna Fasano’s first novel was published by Harlequin Silhouette in 1990, and it was chosen by the Romance Writers of America as a finalist for its Golden Hearts Award. In the twenty years that followed, Fasano–sometimes using the pen name Donna Clayton–published over 30 novels via the traditional publishing route, won the HOLT Medallion three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Copyright exception treaty for the disabled could limit ebook market by Bob Martinengo</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/copyright-exception-treaty-for-the-disabled-could-limit-ebook-market-by-bob-martinengo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/copyright-exception-treaty-for-the-disabled-could-limit-ebook-market-by-bob-martinengo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a TeleRead Contributor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special to TeleRead The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights just finished meeting in Geneva. One of the main topics of discussion was a treaty proposal that would standardize copyright exceptions around the world to benefit blind readers. While there was strong support for the treaty by NGOs and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ebooks and the digital era:  a brighter future for all of us?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/teleread-contributor/ebooks-and-the-digital-era-a-brighter-future-for-all-of-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alejandro Sanchez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The promise of the digital era lays in its growing ability to shed old limitations and obstacles. However, there are many problems which must be addressed as our societies enter this new epic period. I have recently finished reading William Easterly’s excellent book “The White Man’s Burden.” In it he argues that foreign aid must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ditching Physical Media â€“ Mental Paradigm Shift or Begot by Laziness? by Luke Bergeron</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/teleread-contributor/ditching-physical-media-%e2%80%93-mental-paradigm-shift-or-begot-by-laziness-by-luke-bergeron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere in between early college and late college, my media purchasing habits changed. I went from needing a physical copy of everything, to preferring a digital copy or a free copy I could return once I was finished with it. Maybe this could be because I was sick of moving all that junk every time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An immodest and hopefully obvious proposal for electronic citations by Sherman Dorn</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 15:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a TeleRead Contributor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a thought today after reading of Barnes &#38; Noble&#8217;s new iPad app, which allows customers to loan/borrow purchased books. I haven&#8217;t heard whether the annotations go along with the lending, but it strikes me that academics needing to cite locations in ebooks and those interested in annotation technology both need a way to [...]]]></description>
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