Tablets to Outsell Desktops in 2013; Sub-1o0Inch Emerging as Most Popular (Good e-Reader)Morning Roundup
Research firm IDC has come up with some new findings that confirm what an earlier survey had revealed; tablet PC shipments will outpace that of notebooks in 2013. The survey also revealed that shipments of tablets will surpass all forms of computing, including desktops and notebooks by 2015.

In Search of a Happy Ending (Futurebook)
Recent news and analysis of publishing has made me wonder if the book business is hoping for its own ‘happy ending’.

Authoritarian Governments Still Trying to Seek More Control Over Internet (Techdirt)
There was plenty of attention paid to the failed WCIT meeting last year, in which some countries effectively sought greater control over the internet, leading many countries to refuse to sign on. There has since been plenty of reasonable concern that the end result of this is a fragmented internet, with one internet for those who believe in internet freedom and openness… and one for those who don’t.

OverDrive’s Big Library Read Boosts Checkouts, Sales (The Digital Shift)
The Four Corners of the Sky, the 2009 Michael Malone novel promoted during OverDrive’s Big Library Read ebook initiative, was checked out almost 24,000 times from May 15 through May 23, according to preliminary data provided by OverDrive and publisher Sourcebooks


Kindle Daily Deal: Under the Lake by Stuart Woods (and 3 others)

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