It should be no surprise to anyone that some of the most popular people in history get a lot of books written about them. From autobiographies to biographies that range from humorist to scandalous books about the ...
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Author's and publishers will go to great lengths to publicize their books, even to the point of shipping a box of them to soldiers in Afghanistan it seems, the problem is that sometimes those books aren't exactly what ...
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Brits, Aussies, Canadians: prepare to gorge on cheap (or even free) e-books. Though it's taken a while, Google's E-book Store has finally made it to the UK, Australia, and Canada, after a period of US exclusivity.
That means ...
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Banned Books Week runs from September 24th through October 1st, and is enjoying its 30th annual celebration this year. The event was founded in 1982 by librarian and director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual ...
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The team at BookLamp wants to make finding new books to read a much more simple process and to accomplish that goal they have created a book recommendation engine they call Book DNA which the company says ...
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Neil Gaiman is probably best known for his graphic novel The Sandman but he is listed in the Dictionary of Literary Biography as one of the top ten living post-modern writers. As well as writing science fiction ...
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Okay this is a really cool idea and whoever thought of it deserves a raise.
It seems that Polk County has taken a page from the Redbox movie rental vending machine playbook as the Polk Library Cooperative has ...
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There has never been any doubt that when you walk into a store and plonk down your money, then walk out with your purchase you can do anything you want with it. You don't have to ask ...
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If there is one constant in our online world it is the whining and moaning from old media, and to a growing extent new media, about how they are losing money because consumers don't want to pay ...
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So, there's that in the column of advantages to reading dead tree novels and references tomes.
A recent, teensy study of book reading speeds, encompassing 24 users, measured reading speeds for printed works over their digitally published counterparts ...
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The LP Generation
I grew up in the vinyl generation. No I don't mean anything kinky, so get your minds out of the gutter. For me; and the rest of my generation, the vinyl LP was the audio equivalent ...
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Much ado is being made about the best-selling books on Amazon being skewed by the prevalence of free books.
By my count on the top 100 Kindle books on Amazon, 59 books are either free or cost a cent. ...
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The Internet and technology is transforming just about every industry there is. Some at more breakneck speed than others but the change is coming. Changing as well is the consumer's buying habits as more of our goods ...
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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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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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