TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Kickstarter http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 22 May 2013 20:45:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Siva Cycle Atom is Pedal Power for Your Gadgets http://www.teleread.com/kickstarter/siva-cycle-atom-is-pedal-power-for-your-gadgets/ http://www.teleread.com/kickstarter/siva-cycle-atom-is-pedal-power-for-your-gadgets/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:15:26 +0000 Stanley Goodner http://www.teleread.com/?p=84012 This Kickstarter project has funded pretty quickly over the past couple of days, and I certainly expect it to overfund significantly before the campaign is over. The concept behind the Siva Cycle Atom is using a bicycle as a generator to power a battery pack, which can be used to charge electronic devices via USB. The Siva [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/kickstarter/morning-links-33-kickstart/feed/ 0 Group looks to create Rabble Reads, an aggregated book review site for indie and traditional books http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/group-looks-to-create-rabble-aggregated-book-reviews-for-indie-and-traditional-books/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/group-looks-to-create-rabble-aggregated-book-reviews-for-indie-and-traditional-books/#comments Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:16:12 +0000 Susan Lulgjuraj http://www.teleread.com/?p=80520 Being able to trust a book review on popular sites such as Amazon and Goodreads is getting difficult. These sites have fake reviews—some good and some bad—designed to work the system by raising and droping books in the rankings. Amy Holman Edelman and those at IndieReader are looking to help readers with this problem. They recently created a Kickstarter campaing to [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/group-looks-to-create-rabble-aggregated-book-reviews-for-indie-and-traditional-books/feed/ 1 Meet The People’s E-Book … and join the artist e-book revolution! http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-peoples-e-book-is/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-peoples-e-book-is/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:00:01 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=78323 Regardless of the fact that I’ve been covering the digital publishing beat for the past six months or so, my journalism career actually has its origins in the decidedly low-tech world of DIY independent publishing. (I got my start, believe it or not, by reviewing records for a New York City-area punk-rock fanzine when I [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/e-ink/pebble-watch-ships-today/feed/ 1 At CES, an E Ink Watch Raises $200,000 in Two Days http://www.teleread.com/e-ink/at-ces-the-worlds-thinnest-watch-raises-200000-in-two-days/ http://www.teleread.com/e-ink/at-ces-the-worlds-thinnest-watch-raises-200000-in-two-days/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:16:58 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=76587 Most of you met the newest addition to the TeleRead team, the reporter and author Juli Monroe, when we published her introductory post a couple days back. (If you missed it, click here to give it a look.) But last weekend, we republished an article of Juli’s about E Ink readers that was originally written [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-links-4/feed/ 0 Is Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore the first novel for the TeleRead generation? http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/is-mr-penumbras-24-hour-bookstore-the-first-novel-for-the-teleread-generation/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/is-mr-penumbras-24-hour-bookstore-the-first-novel-for-the-teleread-generation/#comments Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:23:22 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=72894 “Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is a story about a young man who loses his job as part of the Great Recession of the early part of the 21st century, and gets a new one working a night-shift at a 24-hour bookstore in San Francisco. He quickly discovers that there’s much more than meets the eye to [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/is-mr-penumbras-24-hour-bookstore-the-first-novel-for-the-teleread-generation/feed/ 1 Eric Hellman of Unglue.it on e-books, the creative commons, passionate authors and life after Amazon http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/eric-hellman-of-unglue-it-on-e-books-the-creative-commons-passionate-authors-and-life-after-amazon/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/eric-hellman-of-unglue-it-on-e-books-the-creative-commons-passionate-authors-and-life-after-amazon/#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:49:19 +0000 a TeleRead Contributor http://www.teleread.com/?p=72219 By Brian Howard A few weeks ago, crowdfunding platform Unglue.it announced the release of its first e-book, Oral Literature in Africa, via Cambridge’s Open Book Publishers. While the scholarly tome by Ruth H. Finnegan likely didn’t set the publishing world ablaze upon its initial publication in 1970, and its e-book release in 2012 didn’t unseat any bestsellers, its [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/eric-hellman-of-unglue-it-on-e-books-the-creative-commons-passionate-authors-and-life-after-amazon/feed/ 1 Singularity & Co. Opens a Bookshop in Brooklyn http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/singularity-co-opens-a-bookshop-in-brooklyn/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/singularity-co-opens-a-bookshop-in-brooklyn/#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2012 01:35:23 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=69728 Back in March, we brought you the story of Singularity & Co., a four-person team obsessed with obscure science fiction novels, and “aimed at purchasing [the] publishing rights to out-of-print classic SF titles, scanning them, and publishing them as e-books,” as former TeleRead reporter Chris Meadows wrote. The group has since opened a brick-and-mortar bookstore in Brooklyn’s [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/penny-arcade-webcomic-runs-kickstarter-to-remove-advertising/feed/ 1 Kickstarter becomes fourth biggest publisher of graphic novels http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/kickstarter-becomes-fourth-biggest-publisher-of-graphic-novels/ http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/kickstarter-becomes-fourth-biggest-publisher-of-graphic-novels/#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:09:09 +0000 Paul Biba http://www.teleread.com/?p=67296 Who would have thought!  The above is the title of an article in The Guardian: Research by US book industry magazine Publishers Weekly puts Kickstarter – which is set to launch in the UK later this year – in fourth place in a ranking of the US’s top five graphic novel publishers over the three-month period from February [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/kickstarter-becomes-fourth-biggest-publisher-of-graphic-novels/feed/ 0 Can Unglue.it succeed? Lackluster response to most campaigns casts doubt http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/can-unglue-it-succeed-lackluster-response-to-most-campaigns-casts-doubt/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/can-unglue-it-succeed-lackluster-response-to-most-campaigns-casts-doubt/#comments Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:44:20 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/can-unglue-it-succeed-lackluster-response-to-most-campaigns-casts-doubt/ Seen on BoingBoing the other day: an update on crowdfunding site Unglue.it, which has launched five campaigns to crowdfund the free Creative Commons release of specific books. The site has successfully released one book, receiving $7,578 from 259 supporters to “unglue” Oral Literature in Africa by Ruth Finnegan for a CC-BY release—meaning that people can [...]

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