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  Quick Notes: Solomon Scandals review, Google e-reader, Nook outsells Kindle in 1Q11

  1515 readersOccasional TeleRead contributor Robert Nagle passed me a link to a review he lately posted of our founder David Rothman’s self-published novel, The Solomon Scandals, which recounts a journalist’s investigation of a scandal in 1970s Washington. Nagle quite liked the book, giving it four stars, though noting that the tone could get a little preachy

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  TeleRead founder David Rothman in The Atlantic

  1077 readers“Over the years I’ve often quoted David H. Rothman of Alexandria, Va., a pioneer in the entire field of electronic reading devices,” writes James Fallows, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, in an article about U.S. infrastructure that was published earlier this morning on The Atlantic‘s website. “[Rothman] was talking about his “Teleread” proposal many, many years [before]

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  Apple implements March 31 deadline for in-app purchases

  1475 readersThe Wall Street Journal is weighing in on Apple’s decision to enforce in-app-purchase availability, and publishers’ reactions, as well as discussions with Apple representatives at yesterday’s The Daily launch event. It sketches out the overall issues involved, but also comes out with some new tidbits of information, such as a new March 31 deadline for

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  Follow That Story: Paperwhite’s suspiciously absent TTS

  581 readersLast Friday, we brought you a wonderfully seditious opinion piece written by TeleRead founder David Rothman about the fact that Amazon’s brand-new Kindle Paperwhite models were produced without text to speech (TTS) functionality. It’s an important essay, so click here to give it a read if you haven’t already. David tells us he’s been in

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  Testimonial from an author

  581 readersGot this email fromMichael Solomon and I thought it was worth sharing: I am a self-publishing author who, three years ago, began offering (on my Web site and also onmininova.com, a bit-torrent site) free downloads of my books. I had decided that my main goal in writing was not sales, but readers. (I have a

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  Publishing industry faces paradoxes, challenges

  715 readersPublishing Perspectives is carrying a keynote speech delivered in absentia to the International Publishers Association Congress in South Africa in which Chad Post, publisher of small nonprofit translation press Open Letter Books discusses the paradoxes that shape the current publishing market, the opportunities for a small press, and what various people in publishing should do

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  What was the first book ever written with a word processor?

  746 readersI’ve always been a sucker for stories about the history of American pop culture. So when TeleRead founder David Rothman sent me an email last weekend with a subject line that read, “This Was the First Word Processor Ever Used By a Novelist. It Weighed 200 Pounds and Had to Be Brought in Though the

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  Crowdfunded novel The Express Diaries surpasses goal, makes deluxe edition possible

  658 readersOn his blog “Get Published Now, David J. Vallieres looks at a Kickstarter-style crowdfunding project based around a small-press-published historical horror novel called The Express Diaries, with a goal of $5,500. The idea was to get paid to create a deluxe edition of the book before it even shipped, and also create some buzz so

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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

• Net Minds Launches Platform to Help Indie Authors Find a Publishing Team

  445 readers [Press Release] Net Minds Launches Disruptive Team Publishing Platform to Offer Alternative to Traditional and Self-Publishing Designed to Allow Authors to Publish Smarter - Nolan Bushnell, Founder of Atari, to Release Net Mind’s First Published Book in March Net Minds, a new publishing platform co-founded by ex-Yahoo executive and New York Times Best Selling author, Tim Sanders, launched today