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Newspapers have been hit hard by the economy and by shifts in advertising and readership, and the venerable Washington Post is feeling the pinch. Fox News reports that the Post is closing its bureaus in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, and will be concentrating more on local news from now ...
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A few days ago, dpierron on MobileRead posted a very interesting guide to combining the Dropbox on-line storage service with the e-book files generated by Calibre to create your own personal Stanza e-book server, accessible from wherever you can reach the Internet. I have tried this method ...
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That is the title of Mike Shatzkin’s latest post in The Shatzkin Files . It’s too long to reprise here, but suffice it to say that it is very thoughtful and definitely worth reading. Among other things Mike discusses the best defense against piracy:
… this post is not about ...
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The European Parliment has adopted legislation giving phone and internet users broader rights than they had before.
In the internet area, users will be able to challenge a disconnection by cell phone or landline operators, even if they are illegaly sharing copyrighted material. The service ...
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This is the stuff of mystery fiction, except unfortunately it’s true—a disappearance from both Net and Life. Phil Agre , an online pioneer known to thousands for his Red Rock Eaters News Service , has been missing for many months. Agre, who has suffered from manic depression like so ...
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For the upscale market: You can buy a Kindle DX, a leather cover and a full year of the Boston Globe for $499, or a mere $10 above the usual $489. The deal is apparently not limited to the Boston area, says Steve Windwalker’s Kindle Nation blog .
For the cash-strapped: eBay is, as always, ...
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The uppity Jane Litte , who is to trashy romance novels what Molly Ivins Irvins was to the Bush family, has been blackballed by the Romance Writers of America. Whoops. Ron Hogan at Galley Cat gives RWA its well-deserved comeuppance . I’m proud to say Jane is a TeleRead contributor from time ...
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That’s what Al Greco, Professor of Marketing at Fordham University Graduate School of Business Administration, says after much research. The following are some of his figures and you can read the full article here :
book publishing (print and electronic) in the US is a $35 billion ...
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>>Publishing Perspectives has an overview of the Feria del Libro Digital, Spain’s firse ebook fair. Earlier this year digital companies had been shut out of Liber, which is Spain’s traditional book fair.
According the the article, the fair showed that Spain’s ebook industry ...
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As you may have heard, the US, in a fit of Governmental insanity, is negotiating a new copyright treaty that allows for criminal action to be taken against copyright infringers and gives governments broad powers to require ISPs to spy on their users. The insane thing is that the text of the ...
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Feedbooks has long had a custom PDF feature for the Sony Reader and similar machines.
Well, it turns out that the Sony Reader settings work just fine for the upgraded Kindle 2, since the screens of the two machines are the same size. You can start from there and change the font size and ...
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Or, rather, don’t be fooled into thinking that “self-publishing” and “vanity press” mean the same thing.
Recently, we reported on “lies told by the self-publishing industry” . Here is some more advice on the same subject:
Fledgling co-author Sharon Lee posted to her LiveJournal ...
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The most-recent Kindle upgrade from Amazon is working fine now on my Kindle 2—allowing me to read PDF files, even if I can’t search within them or blow up the type. I’ve also lengthened my battery life, which should help when I’m using the Kindle’s much-appreciated text to speech .
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Edited news release from Amazon… – D.R.
The latest-generation Kindle has gotten two new enhancements—85 percent more battery life and a native PDF reader: both of which will be available as upgrades to previous buyers of the newest models.
Kindle now has battery life of up to seven days ...
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Good news from Wattpad , as they have launched on Gharti Airtel. Airtel is the largest mobile operator in India with over 110M subscribers. As mobile Internet users significantly outnumber broadband users in India this dramatically expands Wattpad’s reach. I presume most of the users in ...
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It is only a few more days until Black Friday, the day that strikes horror into the hearts of Christmas shoppers everywhere. And of course, gadget-lovers that e-book fans are, I have little doubt a lot of us are already poring through the on-line ad sites and contemplating setting our Friday ...
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This is from E-Reader-info.com :
Qualcomm say that a e-reader will launch in fall 2010 that will use their MEMS-based Mirasol display. The display will be 5.7″ in size, with 1024×768 resolution. Earlier this month Qualcomm said that they are on track to deliver these displays late ...
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Capitalizing on the popularity of James Patterson and the Alex Cross novels, Sony UK will be issuing a limited edition James Patterson Pocket Edition Reader. The Reader will contain Cross’s novel “Cross Country”, excerpts from two James Patterson books, a letter from Patterson ...
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We have covered Apple’s inconsistencies in approving or rejecting apps for its iPhone app store a number of times. They have even impinged on e-book readers in a couple of cases—such as t he iPhone comic book that was rejected for being too violent , or the e-book reader rejected for being ...
