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In search of Project Z Two years ago The Bookseller was contacted by a source claiming that publishers were working on a major new initiative aimed at blowing Amazon out of the water. It was known as "Project Z". We followed it up, but the… |
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Amazon to Start Selling Ad Space on Kindle Fire’s Welcome Screen Amazon has found yet another way to capitalize on the success of the Kindle Fire tablet, through advertising this time. They intend to place an ad space on the welcome screen of the device and price it at $600k. As… |
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BBQ – Black Business Quarterly: South African quarterly magazine goes really big inside the Apple Newsstand One of the issues many publishers worried about when Apple launched its new iPad was digital issue sizes – would the higher resolution tablet require that already large files become even larger in order to take advantage of the new… |
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Can unglue.it succeed? Quirky initial selections raise questions I think unglue.it is a great idea, but after seeing their first selections I must admit that I’m a bit skeptical about their success. The thing that will make unglue.it work is selecting books that readers want to read and… |
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Toshiba Debuts Four Regza Tablets in Japan Toshiba has just announced four new tablets in Japan, part of the Regza line. The new models range from 7.7 inch and 13.3 inch in diagonal. All 4 models run Android 4.0 and feature 1GB of RAM, a 2 megapixel… |
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Apple gives Wenner Media’s US Weekly a little love, and a bit of a push into the tablet publishing platform Maybe Apple has read those interviews with Jann Wenner, too. It would appear that way, as the tech giant today added the first tablet edition from Wenner Media into their iPad App of the Week section. The added promotion will… |
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UMass Digitizes Old Portuguese-American Newspapers From South Coast Today: The Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives at the Claire T. Carney Library and the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture of the UMass Dartmouth announce the addition of 14 Portuguese-language newspapers published in California between 1885 and 1940… |
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Gigaom looks at why Plastic Logic failed Good article in yesterday’s Gigaom about the failure of Plastic Logic. So typical of start-ups, they had a great technology but were never able to execute. I remember being blown away by a demo of the product when it was… |
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calibre 0.8.52 released New Features EPUB Input: When setting the cover for a book that identifies its cover image, but not the html wrapper around the cover, try to detect and remove that wrapper automatically. When deleting books of a specific format, show… |
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ORBIS: the Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World models actual travel in the Empire From the Orbis website: Spanning one-ninth of the earth’s circumference across three continents, the Roman Empire ruled a quarter of humanity through complex networks of political power, military domination and economic exchange. These extensive connections were sustained by premodern transportation… |
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Worth Noting: Daisy’s War by Shayne Parkinson I, my wife, and most people who have read the Promises to Keep quartet of ebooks are big fans of indie author Shayne Parkinson. For those of you unfamiliar with the quartet, I reviewed the books 2 years ago in On Books:… |
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Emily Books: a new indie online ebook store From Paper Magazine: In the era of e-books, what will happen to the indie bookstore? Will the algorithms at virtual big-boxes decide what we read? And if so, will important, life-changing books go undiscovered? This was a future that Emily Gould and… |
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Morning Brief: Media begins to catch up to events in Greece; markets mixed as Facebook sets its IPO price Now that the second round of elections have been set for June 17, the media seem to have finally caught up a bit with the story in Greece. Falling stock prices, and fleeing bank deposits have a way of waking… |
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New digital distribution service from NetRead From Publishers Weekly: NetRead, the Seattle-based company best known for its JacketCaster software that helps publishers organize and transmit metadata to retailers, distributors, and libraries, has partnered with industry veteran Neil Levin to form NetRead Distribution, an e-book distribution service.… |
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