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Mini me, you complete me: Small is big in new ereaders
Rumors are swirling around the not-so-subtle Apple announcement for Tuesday’s event that teases, “We’ve got a little more to show you.” Little, you say? As in…mini? Something…nan-tastic? Whatever the...
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Holiday e-cookbooks: Can they trump food blogs?
Source: Foliomag.com Now that Thanksgiving is less than a month away, holiday worries creep in: What will I cook? What outfits are safe from in-law scrutiny (that also expand at the waist)? Further,...
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Top news of the week
DBW power rankings. Two notorious love birds top DBW’s list of top ebook publishers. Amazon is gunning for Netflix and Hulu. By raising its Prime prices? Aggro. Print is not dead! Fetishists say so....
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Google turns vacuum cleaner into book scanner. Via Wired: As if scanning those 7 million rare and out of print books didn’t ruffle the feathers of enough opponents, we at least know how they avoided...
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Lessons from Gilbane: Part 1
Where would you find a CEO belting out karaoke of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (the lyrics swapped out with intentionally nauseating tech buzzwords), the creator of something called Pugpig,...
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Lessons from Gilbane: Part 2
In yesterday’s post, I promised to show the light at the end of the tunnel for publishers trying to keep up with digital disruptions to their businesses. Topping the list of pain points at Gilbane was...
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Ebook gift cards: The ultimate anticlimax?
With the digitization of music, books, and other intangible forms of entertainment, where does one draw the line in gifting these items? I know that other than my mother, the gift of the CD has all...
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Gadget realism: A digital divide
Every year, my electronics-obsessed brother tries to rope the siblings into “going in” on a big tech purchase for my mother. His enthusiasm is fueled by the one gamble that paid off: the Kindle Fire....
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Are tech giants out to kill the novel?
Last week, Wired interviewed Tim O’Reilly, the CEO of O’Reilly Media, a company that has revolutionized the e-publishing space over the last 35 years. Source: Wired.com Starting with computer manuals,...
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Top News of the Week
Source: store.digitalbookworld.com Judging from the all the hype over children’s book publishing at the Digital Book World event this week, here’s a special edition of Top News dedicated to the...
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The single life: Progress report on digital short forms
Close to a year ago, a fellow Appazoogler pondered the future of digital shorts and book formats conducive to Kindle Singles. The focus, appropriately, was on form length and our waning attention...
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Ebook gift card update: Livrada caters to authors
Last holiday season, we highlighted the pros and cons of ebook gift cards in lieu of gifting books, or even retailer cards like a Barnes and Noble gift card. Last week Livrada, the start-up that...
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Goodreads: a checkup
Source: Goodreads.com I use Goodreads to brag. I do so in the most subtle, but competitive, and most definitely dork-alicious way. Quickly scanning the “friend″ update emails, I’m not always drawn to...
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Goodreads: a second opinion (Part 2)
A day after I drooled with admiration over the mission of social book reading site Goodreads and their not-as-sketchy-as-Amazon’s book reviews, Amazon swept in and bought them. Cue the speculation,...
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