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• German Cabinet approves digitization plan

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 646
  The Germans are taking on Google, and good for them. The German Cabinet agreed Wednesday to a plan that would fund the digitization of books, pictures, sculptures, notes, music and films and make them available on the Internet. Culture Minister Bernd Neumann called the project a “quantum leap into the world of ...
  17 hours ago

• Worsening Depression

  
  Ask the Therapist — Authority: 131
  I need to know what’s wrong with me. I am 16. I can’t take being me anymore. im not suicidal so i dont know why im having thoughts. i was diagnosed with depression in arpil 09…and in nov 08 i finally let it out that i was sexually abused by a family member….since september ive been feel even more down and ...
  2 days ago

• 2009: E-books’ ‘interesting times’

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 646
  In a recent column, David Pogue looked back at some technological advances that first showed up (or heated up) this year and that have implications for the future. A couple of them—app stores, Netbooks—have minor e-book implications, but Pogue closes with a look at e-books themselves. The e-book marketplace, ...
  3 days ago

• Blog and Website SEO, Putting Your Key Words in Your Footer – Associated Content

  
  Best Webmasters — Authority: 141
  Blog and Website SEO, Putting Your Key Words in Your Footer – Associated Content In some ways Google and other search engines are like kids reading a book. Only in our case the book is our blog or website. Kids remember the first page or so, and the last pages. But the middle is a big bunch of stuff they never ...
  4 days ago

• Bookmarks: Sarah Palin’s book-tour blunder, Rick Moody’s Twitter fiasco, and Sky Gilbert goes back in the closet

  
  Quill & Quire — Authority: 499
  Sundry links from around the Web: Sarah Palin’s publicist admits it was a mistake to try barring foreign journalists from a book-signing event Poet, playwright, and activist Sky Gilbert comes out as “ no longer gay “ Rick Moody’s Tweeted short story is deemed an utter failure Amazon’s bid to scrap ...
  4 days ago

• Best SEO Book Is SEO Made Simple by Michael Fleischner – PR Inside

  
  Best Webmasters — Authority: 141
  Best SEO Book Is SEO Made Simple by Michael Fleischner – PR Inside 2009-11-29 15:46:54 – Based on Amazon.com’s rankings, the best SEO book is SEO Made Simple by Internet marketing expert Michael Fleischner. If you are looking for today’s best SEO book, look no further. The best SEO book is titled, SEO Made ...
  6 days ago

• Academe and the Google Book Settlement

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 646
  According to an article in eSchool News , academics have a “wait and see” attitude towards the Google Book Settlement. They feel that Google Book Search won’t be of much use to undergraduate studies, especially during the first two years of college. The corpus of book will be primarily of use to researchers. ...
  1 week ago

• Arrêtez Google!: EU Reportedly Developing Joint Alternative To Book Project

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 557
  According to Reuters, French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand said the European Union intends to develop a plan to offer a public and pan-European alternative to Google’s book scanning project. The French, among others, filed formal objections and opposition to the Google Book Search settlement with the ...
  1 week ago

• ‘Googled: The End of the World As We Know It’: New book skewers search giant

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 646
  Googled: The end of the World As We Know It —that’s a new, not-so-flattering book about the search giant, complete with anti-Google comments by some media barons. Check out Nicholson Baker’s NYT review . I haven’t read Googled yet, but get the sense that Baker is much fairer than Googled ’s author, ...
  1 week ago

• Harvard’s Darnton is right to fret over the Google threat to libraries—but why no recognition of Project Gutenberg?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 646
  Historian Robert Darnton , the director of the Harvard University Library and author of The Case for Books , a valuable work in many ways, is right to worry about Google wreaking havoc on libraries. But here’s one mystery about The Case . While delving into the evolution of books, Prof. Darnton devotes not ...
  1 week ago

• Googles Earth

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  Sergey Brin, left, and Larry Page at Google Inc. headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. in Sept. 2008
  1 week ago

• My e-book Thanksgiving list

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 646
  Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! A number of other sites are doing Thanksgiving lists ( Ars Technica , Wired , another Wired , and Wired again on things not to be thankful for ), and I thought I would assay one of my own. Of course, we all know that we have a lot more to be thankful for than just ...
  1 week ago

• Google collection: A start toward TeleRead?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 646
  Since the early 1990s, I’ve been pushing for a well-stocked national digital library system . The Obama White House so far has ignored the TeleRead idea as recently presented in the Huffington Post . But could we be getting there anyway? Via the Reading 2.0 list, here’s an except from Harvard Professor Robert ...
  1 week ago

• Google classics on an upgraded Kindle 2

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 646
  I’ve started out Thanksgiving Day with a little sacrilege—by Amazon standards, anyway. The left image shows a page from Google ’s PDF of The Jungle ,  the Upton Sinclair novel exposing the Chicago meatpackers. My little experiment was for more than the sake of curiosity. Google has digitized zillions of ...
  1 week ago

• Google Korea to “Koreanize” its Home Page

  
  Waiguoren's Weblog — Authority: 128
  Posted on koreainformationsociety The Korea Times yesterday notes that Google Korea plans to “Koreanize” its home page!   The article notes that Naver has a 66 percent share of the search market and Daum is in second place with 20 percent.  Meanwhile, Google has only 2.2 percent of the Korean search market. ...
  1 week ago

• Should Google Books worry publishers?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 646
  Ron Miller at Fierce Content Management has obtained a review unit of Astak’s EZReader Pocket Pro (the same one I’ve been reviewing in recent weeks) and used it to examine Google’s e-book offerings . It is not clear from the article whether he downloaded the PDF or EPUB versions of the books he chose to read. ...
  1 week ago

• Judge grants preliminary approval of Google Book Settlement

  
  The CITE — Authority: 129
  Earlier this month, Google, the Authors Guild, and the Association of American Publishers submitted a revised version of the Google Book Settlement. The new draft is intended to resolve the U.S. Justice Department’s concerns that the settlement would violate copyright law and give Google an unfair advantage. ...
  1 week ago

• Call For Illustrators

  
  Yeah...I said it — Authority: 127
  I’m looking for artists to work on a comic strip that I co-wrote with a few friends of mine. I can draw, but I’m looking for someone who can make this look a little more professional and less half-assed than it would if I were to do all of the artwork. The man who came [...]
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• Revised Google Book Settlement

  
  Internet News — Authority: 436
  Here We Go Again! The Revised Google Book Settlement by Barbara Quint, Newsbreaks (Nov 23) Barbara Quint finds that on closer examination, "the revised settlement seems to reveal that the changes from the original settlement are not as major as...
  2 weeks ago

• Google Book Settlement Gets Preliminary Approval; Hearing in 2010

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 584
  New York - The judge overseeing the settlement agreement between Google (NASD: GOOG) and authors andpublishers over the direction of its massive book-scanning project has pushed ahearing on a revised settlement back to Feb. 18, while at the same time grantedpreliminary approval to the new deal. "The preliminary ...
  2 weeks ago

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