Kindles in libraries? Amazon says “get lost.”
Amazon prohibits libraries from lending out Kindles. It’s unclear if you can let your spouse use it. (Hat tip Jessamyn West). I’ve refrained from posting about the Kindle because everyone else is...
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Having bought bought second-tier Print-on-Demand (POD) publisher BookSurge, Amazon is now working to shut down its competition. According to Publishers Weekly: “According to talks with several pod...
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Can your Kindle read to you?
The new Kindle apparently can “read out loud”—that is speech-synthesize—its books. Paul Aiken, director of the Author’s Guild, told the Wall Street Journal they can’t do that: “They don’t have the...
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Ebook economics: Are libraries screwed?
“Kindling” by Flickr user oskay The advance of ebooks will no doubt bring much good. As often with technological change, we probably can’t even predict what wonderful new things will emerge! But we...
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The Brigadoon Library!
Techcrunch just reported an interesting development with Barnes and Noble’s Nook eReader, a feature called “Read in Store.” The idea is simple. If you’ve got a Nook and you’re in a physical Barnes and...
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