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  Library of Congress puts Civil War portrait collection on Flickr

  1067 readersThe Library of Congress has placed 700 Civil War portraits on Flickr, according to Research Buzz. They are available here. This collection is all from one place — the Liljenquist family — and includes the frames of the pictures as well as the ambrotype and tintype photographs themselves. Many of the pictures are soldiers (including

• Farm Co-Op Sun-Maid Publishes E-Book to Celebrate 100th Anniversary

  355 readers PRESS RELEASE: Sun-Maid Introduces Free 100th Anniversary eBook KINGSBURG, Calif., May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –  Now celebrating its 100th Anniversary, Sun-Maid, the world’s largest processor of raisins and dried fruits, announced the release of its new eBook, Sun-Maid Raisins & Dried Fruits: Serving American Families & the World Since 1912.  A digital edition of the print book

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  Does OverDrive really care about libraries?

  1907 readersThat’s the title of a thought-provoking article by school librarian Christopher Harris in American Libraries.  I never would have thought about this nightmare. Here’s a snippet: … Late last week, I received an email from OverDrive, sent as part of itsISTE promotions, that was quite different from the messaging we in the library world receives. Instead

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  New Rivers Press launches ebook-only imprint

  730 readersFrom the press release> MOORHEAD, MN, July 1, 2012 – New Rivers Press is pleased to announce that it will begin publishing popular fiction titles with literary value. For The New Rivers Press Electronic Book Series competition, the press is seeking manuscripts from new and emerging authors in the genres of Action-adventure, Crime, Detective, Fantasy,

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  The Weather Channel makes their apps iOS 6 compliant (and yes, their maps look just fine)

  1912 readersWhen I saw this morning that The Weather Channel had updated its two iOS apps I had to wonder whether cities in South Carolina were now in Central America, or whether your local bridge appeared to be melting. I've got good news, all appears to be fine. Both free apps, The Westher Channel (for the iPhone) and

• Alexandria, Va., Cambridge, Mass., Top Amazon’s List of Most-Well-Read Cities in U.S.

  312 readers PRESS RELEASE: Amazon.com Announces the Most Well-Read Cities in America Alexandria, Va., Cambridge, Mass., and Berkeley, Calif., top Amazon’s second annual “Most Well-Read Cities in America” list SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May. 15, 2012– Kicking off the summer reading season, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced its annual list of the Most Well-Read Cities in America. The ranking was determined by compiling

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  Google Maps Now Has Live Service Alert for Transit

  262 readersGoogle Map has partnered with transit agencies in 800 cities from 25 countries and some of those cities will be receiving live transit departures and alerts for iOS and Android. The new update gives riders alternative routes in the event of delays from  construction or accidents in the form of alerts while showing live departure times.

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  Amazon Names the Top 20 Most Read Cities in the US.

  1239 readersAmazon has crunched the numbers and come up with a list of cities in the US where it sold the most books, newspapers, and magazines. This data is based on all sales in print and Kindle format since the beginning of the year, and is drawn from cities wi...

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  We Are Getting Close to the Event Hosted by Google. Here are Some Things We can Expect

  1460 readersThe 29th of this month is the date when Google will host their Android related event. It is the date when we will find out how many of the rumors that have flooded the Internet lately are true. There are some things we know almost for certain, like the fact that Google will announce their

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  Are E-Books Finally Coming to Cuba?

  436 readersWe’ve been covering the international e-book scene for some time here at TeleRead, but Cuba is one county we haven’t had the opportunity to discuss much at all. TeleRead founder David Rothman wrote this thought provoking piece about the Cuban literary landscape back in April 2009. But given that Cuba is a county with virtually no digital publishing