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  1064 readers That's the opinion I came away with after last week's TOC debate. Then again, I'm somewhat biased since I argued for the Amazon position while my friend and industry colleague, Kassia Krozser, was Ms. Apple. Meanwhile, TOC co-chair, Kat Meyer, had her hands full as moderator and did her best to keep Kassia and I

• Amazon Rocks! Apple? Not So Much…

  197 readers That's the opinion I came away with after last week's TOC debate. Then again, I'm somewhat biased since I argued for the Amazon position while my friend and industry colleague, Kassia Krozser, was Ms. Apple. Meanwhile, TOC co-chair, Kat Meyer, had her hands full as moderator and did her best to keep Kassia and I

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  Show Me the Money: Finding Cash for Your Publishing Start-up

  1781 readersTraditionally investors looked to technology as a scalable asset, but content appears to be making a comeback. By Sophie Rochester When it comes to getting your business off the ground, in addition to vision and a solid business plan, you need one thing above all: money. At O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing conference last week, a panel

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  How the Inauguration App Collects Data

  201 readersThe Presidential Inauguration Committee came under scrutiny this week after releasing an app, which Politico revealed gave the committee permission to share user data “with candidates, organizations, groups or causes that we believe have similar political viewpoints, principles or objectives.” While you can use the app to watch videos and view maps, it also asks users to share

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  The E-Book Renaissance, Part II: An upcoming conference you can attend from home

  999 readersOn October 18 and 19 in Boston, a nonprofit group known as the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) will be presenting a forum that will take a close look at the “key issues surrounding e-books from a variety of industry, library, scholarly, and consumer viewpoints,” according to the forum’s page on the NISO website. The name of

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  E-Ink Touchscreens and font darkness, and Carnoy on 7" tablet rumor

  1287 readers TOUCHCO AND THE CHALLENGES THEY'VE HAD TO MEET Steve Bain, of the KindleZen website, whose @kindletoday Twitter posts of Kindle and other e-reader news from all sources and viewpoints are highly valued by many, sent a news alert to a story that explains why Amazon has been slow in coming up with a touch screen

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  OverDrive & SourceBooks Test Lending Same eBook to Millions of People

  522 readersOverDrive has launched a pilot program that will allow millions of library patrons to check out the same eBook all at once during a two-week period. The Big Library Read project will let members of more than 7,500 libraries globally simultaneously accessThe Four Corners of the Sky by Michael Malone. OverDrive is working the book’s publisher Sourcebooks on the initiative. Library patrons

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  Bringing democracy back to digital

  304 readers By exposing us to diverging viewpoints, fostering dissent, broadcasting scientific discoveries, and stretching our imagination beyond its sensory frame, books have promoted the rise of our modern social conscience. The many societal and technical revolutions of the 20th century have often been ascribed to a unique combination of readily available literature and high schooling rates. High-speed

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  Tolkien historical novel author settles with Tolkien Estate

  1265 readersThe Hollywood Reporter updates a story I mentioned a couple of months ago, regarding the lawsuit filed by a historical novel author whose book featured Tolkien as a character. When Stephen Hilliard received a cease-and-desist order from the Tolkien estate, he filed a preliminary suit himself seeking a declaration that he had a first-amendment right

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  E-book sales are ‘far out-stripping even the most ambitious industry predictions’

  2088 readersThe headline comment is the view of Gail Rebuck, chairman and chief executive of The Random House Group in the UK, who expressed it in a letter to staff today accompanying the parent group Berte...