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Morning Roundup: Digital Book Signings, Copyright Reform

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:28:59 +0000

Amazon Fights to Keep Secrets in eBook Trial (Publisher’s Weekly) Amazon attorneys last week filed a letter with the court asking that it be allowed to redact sensitive business information about its Kindle e-book program gathered as evidence for the upcoming Apple price-fixing trial. — CourseSmart Enhances its eTextbook Offerings (Good e-Reader) With some reports [...]

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Morning Roundup: Yahoo confirms $1.1B Tumblr acquisition

Dan Eldridge — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:06:03 +0000

Yahoo confirms $1.1 billion Tumblr acquisition (CNET) Yahoo announced the news on Monday, saying that it “promises not to screw [Tumblr] up.” Yahoo paid $1.1 billion for Tumblr, and the company has confirmed that “substantially all of which is payable in cash.” When can a book be digital-only, and when does it need to be print too? [...]

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Weekend Roundup: Lawsuits, Google Glass, Author Appearances and more

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 18 May 2013 12:10:12 +0000

India’s OMICS Publishing Group threatens scholarly critic with $1 billion lawsuit, jail time (Boing Boing) OMICS Publishing Group, an Indian scholarly publisher has threatened to sue one of its critics, Metadata librarian Jeffrey Beall, for $1 billion, and has threatened him with prison time over posts he made to his prominent Scholarly Open Access site. Changes at [...]

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Morning Links: DPLA, Boredom, Web Giants and Digital Kids

Joanna Cabot — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:41 +0000

Digital Public Library Raises Questions of Ownership, Permanence, Access (Media Shift) Why would anyone want to attend a party to celebrate the opening of a virtual repository of metadata? A better question might be — what is a virtual repository of metadata? — The Web Giants Are Rising Above Humans and Their Petty Rules, and [...]

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Morning Links: Digital Signings, Book Discovery, Online Degrees

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:13:44 +0000

Are We in a Rut? Explaining the Increasing Homogenization of Scholarly & Scientific Publishing (Scholarly Kitchen) When the Internet stormed onto the scene, all bets were off — this revolutionary technology with limitless potential would generate all sorts of creativity, from new article presentations, new forms of peer review, new capabilities, and an end to [...]

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Morning Links: New E-Paper Technology, New Bookstats Report

Joanna Cabot — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:00:10 +0000

The Real Costs of Publishing a Book (Media Shift) At every writers conference or self-publishing panel the question that almost always inevitably comes up is: “How much will self-publishing really cost me?” — New Bookstats Report Shows Spectacular Growth of eBook Market Since 2008 (The Digital Reader) The American Association of Publishers announced their latest [...]

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Morning Links: Amazon Acquires Liquivista, OverDrive Unveils Big Library Read

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:52:09 +0000

‘Unbundling’ in the Book Business: The Fourth Big Trend (Shatzkin Files) A few weeks ago, I wrote that there are three big forces driving the future of publishing: scale, verticalization, and atomization. I was wrong. eBook Spending on the Rise (Digital Book World) In 2012 ebooks accounted for 11% of all book spending, according to a recap [...]

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Morning Links: What news organizations are learning from their e-book efforts

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:01:27 +0000

What News Organizations are Learning from their eBook Efforts (Poynter) News organizations have responded to changes in readers’ habits by moving beyond the newsstand and toward the bookshelf, zeroing in on ebooks as a new revenue source and a way to explore genres not typically found on front pages or home pages. Back to the [...]

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Weekend Roundup: Drug Paraphernalia on Amazon, B&N’s Nook Dilemma

Dan Eldridge — Sun, 12 May 2013 14:39:28 +0000

Barnes & Noble’s Nook Dilemma (Dear Author) What’s left if B&N sells the Nook business to Microsoft? (Forbes) Free Books for Mother’s Day (GalleyCat) Now Amazon is selling bongs, nitrous oxide, and deadly hallucinogenic drugs (Business Insider) Kindle Daily Deals: 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (and 3 others)

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Weekend Roundup: Reading on cell phones in Africa

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 11 May 2013 13:10:37 +0000

What news organizations are learning from their e-book efforts (Poynter Online) What’s left if B&N sells the Nook division to Microsoft? (The Passive Voice) A ‘novel’ idea for spreading literature in Africa: The cellphone (Christian Science Monitor) The e-book piracy debate, revisited (NYTimes.com) The fascinating stories behind classic book titles (Flavorwire) Kindle Daily Deals: Subterranean by James [...]

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Morning Links: Library E-Books, Nook & Microsoft

Joanna Cabot — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:38:01 +0000

Is it the Best of Times or the Worst of Times for Journalism? Yes (GigaOM) Library eBooks: The Role of Libraries in the Book Discovery Process (Sourcebooks) The Cover That Launced a Thousand iBookstore Sales (GalleyCat) In Nook, Microsoft Sees a Chance to Compete Against Amazon and Apple (Paid Content) Kindle Daily Deals: The House [...]

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Morning Links: Google Books Appeal, the Death of TOC

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:14:22 +0000

“Fair Use” Takes Centre Stage at Google Books Appeal (Paid Content) Businessman Closes Product, Community Enraged! The Death of Tools of Change (Scholarly Kitchen) Smashwords Releases Data from eBook Sales Study (Good e-Reader) The Year of the Bookstore (Kristine Kathryn Rusch) Kindle Daily Deals: Captive in Iran by Maryam Rostampour (and 3 others)

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Morning Links: Medium, Book Promotion, E-Book App Creation

Joanna Cabot — Wed, 08 May 2013 13:11:39 +0000

Indie Authors Help Each Other with Book Promotion (Good e-Reader) How Graphic Novels Became the Hottest Section in the Library (PW) The Publishing Industry’s Secret Sauce is You (Wired) eBook App Creation Demystified: A Case Study (DBW) Kindle Daily Deals: The Ghost Writer by John Harwood (and 3 others)

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Morning Links: Sponsored Content, Scholastic Summer Challenge, E-Book Projects

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:11:34 +0000

Scholastic Summer Challenge Launches for Seventh Year (Galley Cat) New York Public Library Discusses eBook Projects (Good e-Reader) Senate Approves Online Sales Tax Bill (Techdirt) Is Sponsored Content the Future of Independent Online Publishing? (Techvibes) Kindle Daily Deals: The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen (and 3 others)

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Morning Links: Fan community calls out illegal comics sharing

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:00:26 +0000

Authors and Book Rights: Some More Truths (Future Book) Nook Press Updated: Now Lets Users Edit Previously Published Books (The Digital Reader) Fan Community Calls Out Illegal Comics Sharing (Good e-Reader) Sourcebooks, OverDrive Launch Pilot to Demonstrate Impact of Library Lending on Sales (Paid Content) Kindle Daily Deals: Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley (and 3 [...]

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