The Grinch Who Stole the Public Domain (Techdirt)
As they do every year, unfortunately, the good folks at the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke have put together a depressing list of what should have entered the public domain yesterday.
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The Year’s Best Social Media Tools for Journalists (Media Shift)
The more that journalists use social media, the more tools pop up to help them search multiple platforms at once, showcase content in a new way, follow social media chatter by location and more.
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Journalist Ann Morgan Read a Book From Every Country (GalleyCat)
British journalist Ann Morgan has accomplished a big goal as a reader, she read a book from every country around the world. That is 196 books from authors from Swaziland to Nicaragua.
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Top Ten Indie Author Newsmakers of 2013 (Indie Reader)
Looking at 2013 in retrospect, IR has compiled an equally eclectic list of indie authors who achieved widespread media recognition this year.
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Kindle Daily Deal: Red Sparrow (and others)