TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Facebook http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 18 May 2013 18:30:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Google Play is Giving Away Top Apps for Communicating http://www.teleread.com/google/google-play-is-giving-away-top-apps-for-communicating/ http://www.teleread.com/google/google-play-is-giving-away-top-apps-for-communicating/#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:31:41 +0000 Matthew Marchesano http://www.teleread.com/?p=82583 How do you stay connected with friends and loved ones in distant places? We all know how convenient our mobile devices are when it comes to that, though sometimes it’s hard to know which avenue is best. Google Play announced on Thursday that every top communication app is available for free download. What’s crazy is that we’re [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/writing/storylane-will-join-forces-with-facebook/feed/ 0 Irish Senator proposes “pay to post” Internet http://www.teleread.com/legal/irish-senator-proposes-pay-to-post-internet/ http://www.teleread.com/legal/irish-senator-proposes-pay-to-post-internet/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:45:02 +0000 Bill Stiteler http://www.teleread.com/?p=80839 Using an iPhone in Ireland to connect to the Internet? Get your passport out. The legislature of Ireland, the Oireachtas Éireann, is exploring the topic of Internet safety and cyberbullying, and the possible need for legislation and regulation of online comments. It’s going about as well as you might imagine, with one senator, Eamonn Coghlan, suggesting that [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/legal/irish-senator-proposes-pay-to-post-internet/feed/ 1 A conversation with Amanda Close about BookScout, Random House’s new discoverability app http://www.teleread.com/discoverability/bookscout-speaking-with-svp-of-digital-marketplace-development-amanda-close-about-random-houses-new-discoverability-app/ http://www.teleread.com/discoverability/bookscout-speaking-with-svp-of-digital-marketplace-development-amanda-close-about-random-houses-new-discoverability-app/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:00:32 +0000 Aggregated Content http://www.teleread.com/?p=77869   By Brian Howard Last week, following a soft-launch the week prior, Random House marched out BookScout, a Facebook app designed to link readers with books they’ll like but might not have discovered on their own. The recommendation engine draws on a user’s “likes”—both on one’s Facebook timeline and then directly through the app. Intriguingly, BookScout [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/discoverability/bookscout-speaking-with-svp-of-digital-marketplace-development-amanda-close-about-random-houses-new-discoverability-app/feed/ 7 The Missing Link in Today’s Technology Education http://www.teleread.com/tech/technology-education-the-missing-link/ http://www.teleread.com/tech/technology-education-the-missing-link/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:17:33 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=76941 I posted an article earlier this week about the difficulty of finding ready-to-go technology stuff for kids, and I figured out why: The publishers aren’t the only monolithic entity who is slow to innovate! It seems the Ministry of Education—in my Canadian province, anyway—is slow to innovate, too. Just for fun, I looked up Ontario’s [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/tech/technology-education-the-missing-link/feed/ 1 Over 1M Downloads for Tim Ferriss’ BitTorrent Bundle http://www.teleread.com/publishing/bittorrents-4-hour-chef-bundle-has-more-than-1m-downloads/ http://www.teleread.com/publishing/bittorrents-4-hour-chef-bundle-has-more-than-1m-downloads/#comments Sat, 05 Jan 2013 03:00:52 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=76127 The publishing industry (understandably) made a lot of noise last November when the news broke that self-improvement author Tim Ferriss would be promoting his newest book project, The 4-Hour Chef, on BitTorrent, a site that will probably always be associated with illegal online file-sharing. The promotion—a free, downloadable BitTorrent bundle that includes interviews, candid author photos, the first chapter of [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/writer-ewan-morrison-decries-social-media-promotion-for-e-books-failure-of-acta-passage/feed/ 5 The ‘Junkweb’ makes the social web more magazine-like http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-junkweb-makes-the-social-web-more-magazine-like/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-junkweb-makes-the-social-web-more-magazine-like/#comments Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:21:31 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-junkweb-makes-the-social-web-more-magazine-like/ WordPress-based platform developer Chris Brogan has an interesting observation about social media. It’s been flooded by image macros—photos with words pasted over them. While this began with Lolcats, it hardly stopped there, and now everyone’s Facebook stream is a by and large a cascade of these images. The interesting thing about this is that it [...]

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