If there is one thing you can say about the Web it is that it is responsible for the disruption of more businesses than just about any recession. We hear daily about the newspaper industry facing annihilation, the ...
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A leaked WSJ ad, scheduled for Oct. 25th, has gadget bloggers buzzing about Barnes & Noble's new e-reader, the Nook.
Running on Android, the Nook is said to be priced at Kindle's $259 pricepoint. Many people have likened ...
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In a post back on September 23 New Zealand author Brian Edwards puts forth the proposition that our public libraries are just a form of theft and that people who lend their friends books ...
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We’ve seen the same thing repeated over an over with the music industry, television industry, news industry, and many more just like them. Crying doom and gloom about how their individual wealth creators are ...
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While most people might not think so it turns out, according to the Cleantech Group, that the Amazon Kindle may end up being more environmentally friendly than paper books. After examining all the ...
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We call it the naked city, but did you know getting your tatas out ain't so illegal up in here?
Jordan Matter's new book Uncovered: Women In Word and Image was inspired by Janet Jackson's most controversial nip-slip ...
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This past weekend was San Diego Comic-Con, where nerds, fanboys, and devotees of all things magical/fantastic/scifi/comicbook show up in droves to see snippets from upcoming movies, glimpses of their most obsessed-over actors/actresses, and to get “inside information” ...
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Dear Publishing Industry,
You’re screwed, and everyone knows it - especially since you whine and moan about it on what seems like a daily basis via the very pulpits you are trying to protect. Crying over spilled milk ...
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It should be obvious, at this point, to any observer: the world loves Harry Potter. Not just America, or even the Western World, but the whole World – Planet Earth. The first of the last three movies ...
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One might think in this day and age of instant gratification, texting non-stop, and sound bite attention spans that appreciation for literature, classic and modern, has fallen by the wayside. Well thanks to Cory ...
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“Once upon a time people use to be able to walk into something called a bookstore and actually touch the covers of books, flip through the pages of a book and then buy that ...
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With everyone talking about how the dead tree publishing world is dying off I thought it was nice to see some ideas for breathing new life into the old book idea of publishing.
Things - Edith Kollath Creates ...
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