The old myth just won’t die. You can read e-books in the bath, contrary to the impression that Sara Nelson, editor of Publishers Weekly, gave. We replicated the E part of the "ultimate e-book experiment" of Chris Steib, shown in the photo. More importantly, Sara may want to re-examine the math behind her e-book forecast. …
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Challenge to PW editor Sara Nelson: Read E in the bathtub
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Did Google hear Aaron Stanton—writer of book-match algorithm?
http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/07/07/did-google-hear-aaron-stanton-writer-of-book-match-algorithm/Aaron Stanton made the TeleBlog a few months back with his system to help match up books with readers. He pestered Google and some rivals. Now he says he’s landed a contract that will let him expand the size of his experimental database. …
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Google ads: Pardon our dust
http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/07/07/google-ads-pardon-our-dust/We’re experimenting with our Google ad setup, so some advertisements may be more intrusive than they normally would be. The real goal is to get politely sized ads showing up in our full RSS feeds to help keep the TeleBlog sustainable. Meanwhile thanks to Kevin Marshall for his suggestions. …
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Noticias Edición Digital
http://noticiasediciondigital.malaletra.com1923–1963: Google Book Search Targeting More Books for Public Domain?, in Information Today, offers more details for the public domain-oriented.
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Der Volksverlag
http://www.mindsharing.de/blog/2008/07/07/der-volksverlag/Autoren werden es sich sicherlich überlegen, ob sie in Zukunft nicht bei diesem Verlag veröffentlichen, den 50 Prozent vom Gewinn zahlt kaum ein anderer Verlag. Links: coolbusinessideas.com crunchbase.com jwikert.typepad.com webook.com teleread.org
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Noticias Edición Digital
http://noticiasediciondigital.malaletra.comTeleRead may be the world’s longest-running English-language site offering e-book news and views. It often shows up on Techmeme and the New York Times’ Blogrunner service and is blogrolled by such major publishers as
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Noticias Edición Digital
http://noticiasediciondigital.malaletra.comSF fans’ fave books, recession-slowed book sales, yet another Amazon-iPod piece, E vs. paperbacks, DRM-free audio books Posted by David Rothman on July 5th, 2008
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Noticias Edición Digital
http://noticiasediciondigital.malaletra.comno more. Oh, the mysteries of life and commerce. I personally dislike the Kindle’s DRM and some other aspects, but many of our readers love the machine, and we’ll continue running both the pros and the cons, along with tips. 5. Advertise your book or book-related product or service on TeleRead if it makes business sense to you. Here are the kinds of books that members of the TeleRead community go for. 6. Volunteer technical services or copy editing.
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Blog Kindle · Introducing Amazon Kindle - Daily News about Amazon's new e-book reader - Kindle
http://www.blogkindle.coms Kindle Numbers: All Fluff, Zero Substance - Seeking Alpha Email to Amazon CS re: File Management - MobileRead forums COMMENT: Are e-books finally challenging the paperback? - pocket-lint Amazon’s Kindle a huge flop? - Mac Daily News Viral marketing idea for Amazon: Kindle e-forms to sign up K converts on the spot—in return for book-buying credits - Teleread Dear Amazon, Here’s Your Kindle Back - Newsvine Straight through processing - Heaven in Hell’s Kitchen Kindle: Owners Love ‘em, Non-Owners Seem Jealous - Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 Blog
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Loving Life in the 'Burgh
http://lovinglifeintheburgh.blogspot.comViral marketing idea for Amazon: Kindle e-forms to sign up K converts on the spot—in return for book-buying credits
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Noticias Edición Digital
http://noticiasediciondigital.malaletra.comhowever long it takes to arrive. Well, enough cosmic-level thoughts. Ready for those Ziplocs, Sara, and a nice read in the tub? E-books and all that, Uncategorized, e-book, e-book ergonomics, e-books, e-books and other digipubs, ebook, ebooks | No Comments »
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Noticias Edición Digital
http://noticiasediciondigital.malaletra.coms just hope that OLPC can likewise smarten up about issues such as e-book software, and ways to encourage its development by a wide range of programmers, while encouraging use of the ePub standard. I want the OLPC machines to be in the middle of the international e-book world, rather than off in a little K-12 ghetto, so that children, teachers and parents can have a wider choice of books. And that means the application of standards. Even people on the commercial site are
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10 mitos sobre la autoedición
http://www.literaturalibre.com/2008/07/03/10-mitos-sobre-la-...versión original en inglés]. Les recomendamos su lectura pues no sólo habla de los mitos, sino de las oportunidades que el sector editorial y las herramientas de autoedición actuales permiten a los autores para tener una experiencia más exitosa. Ello, en función de la
