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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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Free Books! Get Your Free E-Books Here!

Juli Monroe — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:30:58 +0000

Looking for free e-books for your e-reader? Books on the Knob is a great resource. I’m subscribed to the blog in Google Reader, and every day I receive at least five to 10 posts about free or bargain books. Books on the Knob covers lots of different sites—not just Amazon—so whatever your reader of choice happens [...]

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Unglue.it Releases Two More Free E-Books (Updated)

Dan Eldridge — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:26:28 +0000

We’ve written about the Unglue.it project a few times in the past, but here’s a brief explanation for anyone who may not be familiar with the site: It’s essentially a crowdsource-funded campaign that attempts to purchase the copyrights to various books, which it then releases free-of-charge—and DRM-free—to literally anyone on earth who wants a copy. [...]

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Kindle Quick Tips: How to Organize Your Free E-Books

Juli Monroe — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:23:21 +0000

Do you like to “buy” lots of free books, but you don’t want them all downloaded to your Kindle? Not a problem. Try this. 1. Install Kindle for PC (or Mac) on your computer. 2. When you “buy” a free book, have it sent to your Kindle desktop app instead of your Kindle 3. Select [...]

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Free Ebook: A Worker’s Writebook: How Language Creates Stories (by Jack Matthews)

Robert Nagle — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:34:00 +0000

Last year I published on Teleread a lengthy interview with author Jack Matthew as well as a preface to his work. I am happy to announce that since that time I have built an author site about his works and am helping him to digitalize old and new works. The first major work is A [...]

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Could piracy be helpful? Publishing industry perspectives

Chris Meadows — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:15:00 +0000

There have been a couple of interesting discussions over the last couple of days on articles pertaining to piracy of e-books. (A lot of piracy-related articles here tend to grow interesting, long discussions—take this one, for instance.) They have brought in a lot of new readers—at least, we hope they’ll become new regular readers—who have [...]

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BusinessWeek: iPhone appbooks extremely popular

Chris Meadows — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:15:00 +0000

BusinessWeek reports on the current popularity of iPhone e-book apps, which now outstrip the number of game apps on the app store by over 1,600 titles. The article mentions appbook creator Michel Kripalani of Oceanhouse Media, who switched over from games to e-books back when there were only 700 book-related titles in the app store. [...]

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