TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Nook http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 24 May 2013 19:30:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Barnes & Noble Partners with UK Publishers to Encourage Literacy http://www.teleread.com/barnes-noble/barnes-noble-partners-with-uk-publishers-to-encourage-literacy/ http://www.teleread.com/barnes-noble/barnes-noble-partners-with-uk-publishers-to-encourage-literacy/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 00:32:21 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=85167 Since the middle of 2011, the London Evening Standard has been focused on increasing literacy in the UK with their “Get London Reading” initiative. To date, they’ve raised £1 million (about $1.5 million) and helped more than 2,000 children. Now Barnes & Noble and Nook Media have joined the campaign, along with several large UK [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/weekend-roundup-drug-paraphernalia-on-amazon-bns-nook-dilemma/feed/ 1 Morning Links: Library E-Books, Nook & Microsoft http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/morning-links-library-e-books-nook-microsoft/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/morning-links-library-e-books-nook-microsoft/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 13:38:01 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=84711 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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]]> http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-links-granta-closing-nyc-office-b-and-more/feed/ 0 On my honeymoon, I fell in love all over again… with my e-reader (and my wife, of course) http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/on-my-honeymoon-i-fell-in-love-all-over-again-with-my-e-reader-and-my-wife-of-course/ http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/on-my-honeymoon-i-fell-in-love-all-over-again-with-my-e-reader-and-my-wife-of-course/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 19:30:18 +0000 Brian Howard http://www.teleread.com/?p=84304 I hope you’ll pardon me as I jog my ocean air- and sun-addled brain back into something resembling normal functioning with a story from my just-ended honeymoon. On Saturday, my newly minted wife and I got back from Tulum, Mexico, where we spent a week on the beach relaxing and—if we’re being completely honest—recovering from [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-links-48/feed/ 0 Mobile Magazines, Part IV — Periodicals on E-Readers http://www.teleread.com/magazines/mobile-magazines-part-iv-periodicals-on-e-readers/ http://www.teleread.com/magazines/mobile-magazines-part-iv-periodicals-on-e-readers/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:30:50 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=83098 * Note: Click here to read Mobile Magazines, Part I — Google Play Magazines, here for Mobile Magazines, Part II — iOS Newsstand and here for Mobile Magazines, Part III — Next Issue So far this series has exclusively covered periodicals on tablets. But what if you have an e-reader? Yes, magazines and other periodicals are [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/study-shows-tablets-continue-to-overtake-e-readers/feed/ 7 The curious incident of the books on the Kindle http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-curious-incident-of-the-books-on-the-kindle/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-curious-incident-of-the-books-on-the-kindle/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:03:53 +0000 Aggregated Content http://www.teleread.com/?p=81436   If you had a pile of 300 books in your house waiting to be read, what would you do? Would you go out and buy any more books? I doubt it, even if you could battle your way to the front door. Yet if you’d got 300 books on your Kindle/iPad/other e-reader, would you [...]

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