TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Morning Links http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:46:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Morning Roundup: 19 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read Forever http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-19-books-youve-been-meaning-to-read-forever/ http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-19-books-youve-been-meaning-to-read-forever/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:03:41 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=87001 19 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read Forever (Book Riot) A little while ago, we asked you to confess the books you’ve always wanted to read but just never seem to get around to. You know, the ones that stare at you from atop your TBR pile and cause you endless readerly guilt. 358 readers [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-19-books-youve-been-meaning-to-read-forever/feed/ 0 Weekend Roundup: 3 Essential Books You Should Read in Every Major Genre http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/weekend-roundup-3-essential-books-you-should-read-in-every-major-genre/ http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/weekend-roundup-3-essential-books-you-should-read-in-every-major-genre/#comments Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:44:43 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=86899 How Google Will Use Balloons to Deliver Internet to the Hinterlands (Wired) Not much happens in Geraldine, a small farming community in the interior of the South Island of New Zealand, about 85 miles from Christchurch. So when Hayden MacKenzie, a fourth-generation farmer there, picked up the phone last Tuesday and got a request to [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-11/feed/ 0 Morning Roundup: Is e-book growth revenue stalling out? http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-is-e-book-growth-revenue-stalling-out/ http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-is-e-book-growth-revenue-stalling-out/#comments Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:49:03 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=86701 Is Ebook Revenue Growth Stalling Out? (Digital Book World) Ebook revenue gains continue to slow this year. The latest numbers from the Association of American Publishers reveal that ebook revenue was up only 0.7% to $130.2 million in January. — Digital Mags Can be More Local, and More Global Than in Print World (Media Shift) [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-links-52/feed/ 0 Morning Roundup: Meet Beast Academy http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-9/ http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-9/#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:12:18 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=86362 Why Google Reader Really Got the Ax (Wired) When Google announced its plans to shutter Google Reader in March, the Internet freaked out. Twitter users raised their virtual pitchforks in outrage. Bloggers wept, scrambling to find a suitable replacement by the service’s July 1 death date. — LaMP Teaches You a Foreign Language Via Movie and YouTube [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-6/feed/ 0 Weekend Roundup: BookExpo America edition http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/weekend-roundup-5/ http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/weekend-roundup-5/#comments Sat, 01 Jun 2013 14:53:06 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=86013 Stephen King & John Mellencamp Create Interactive eBook (GalleyCat) A week after making news about avoiding an eBook edition of Joyland, novelist Stephen King has created a supernatural digital book called Ghost Brothers of Darkland County. — E-Books Are Gripping Story at BookExpo America (WSJ) When the book industry gathers at BookExpo America this week in New York, among the hot [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/smartphones/morning-roundup-5/feed/ 0 Morning Roundup: HarperCollins launches free books program; The Black Crown Project goes live http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-4/ http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-4/#comments Thu, 30 May 2013 13:04:14 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=85901 From Format War to Sustainability Fight (Future Book) History is repeating itself. The developments we currently see with e-books, are in fact not new. In the early eighties there was a battle between the image carriers Betamax, VHS and Video 2000. — HarperCollins Launches e-Insider Program for Free Books (Good e-Reader) The new eInsider program [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-4/feed/ 0 Morning Roundup: Tablets to outsell desktops in 2013 http://www.teleread.com/tablet/morning-roundup-tablets-to-outsell-desktops-in-2013/ http://www.teleread.com/tablet/morning-roundup-tablets-to-outsell-desktops-in-2013/#comments Wed, 29 May 2013 14:26:14 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=85830 Tablets to Outsell Desktops in 2013; Sub-1o0Inch Emerging as Most Popular (Good e-Reader) 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, [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/tablet/morning-roundup-tablets-to-outsell-desktops-in-2013/feed/ 0 Morning Roundup: U.S. publishing industry might soon be infecting pirates with malware http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-one-two-and-three/ http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-roundup-one-two-and-three/#comments Tue, 28 May 2013 13:15:29 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=85711 US Publishing Industry Might Soon be Infecting Pirates with Malware (Good e-Reader) The Publishing industry in the United States may soon be infecting eBook pirates with Malware. A new report proclaims a dire need for new tools that would allow for the photographing of the pirate using his own system’s camera, implanting malware in the their [...]

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