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  Turn Your Old iPad Into A Robot That You Can Send to Meetings

  845 readersRather than give your old iPad to your grandmother, for $1,999, you can buy it a set of wheels and turn it into a robot version of yourself that can attend meetings for you in far away locations. Sound crazy? It’s real. A company called Double Robotics is selling “Wheels for your iPad,” and billing the

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  Free Guns n’ Roses Vook on Tuesday and Wednesday

  1105 readersFound this out at the Vook exhibit at Digital Book World. Tuesday and Wednesday you can download, for free, the Vook Reckless Road: Guns n’ Roses and the making of Appetite for Destruction. This looks really cool. Here’s the description: With 40 minutes of candid video interviews and 200 images, Reckless Road is the definitive

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  “E is for Enhanced: 8 Enhanced Ebooks Worth Checking Out

  1438 readers Jennifer Bergen from PCMag.com offers a look at 8 enhanced e-book titles. Enhanced ebooks can include video, film clips from news reels or major motion pictures, drawings, author interviews, original music, diagrams, photos, and more. In most cases, you can think of an enhanced ebook as an ebook with that extra bonus disc of features you

• Hyperion Launches Rolling Stones Enhanced E-Book With Assist from Apple

  288 readers [Press Release] HYPERION BOOKS AND THAMES & HUDSON ANNOUNCE THE PUBLICATION OF THE ROLLING STONES 50 ENHANCED eBook, developed in conjunction with apple Following this year’s incredible worldwide success of The Rolling Stones 50, the only official 50th anniversary book of the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world, Hyperion and Thames & Hudson publishers are delighted to

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  Here is Berlin Book Tour Diary: Days 1 and 2

  913 readersJM Stim, the author of Here Is Berlin, and Tim Mohr, who wrote the introduction and translated the English edition, are in the midst of an experiment in pushing the boundaries of new publishing models — is it possible to launch a book internationally, in three languages with grassroots marketing and a pan-European book tour?

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  Here is Berlin Book Tour Diary: Days 1 and 2

  687 readersJM Stim, the author of Here Is Berlin, and Tim Mohr, who wrote the introduction and translated the English edition, are in the midst of an experiment in pushing the boundaries of new publishing models — is it possible to launch a book internationally, in three languages with grassroots marketing and a pan-European book tour?

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  Turning Blogs Into E-Books: Meet the founder of Ebook Glue

  126 readersShantanu Bala figures he was probably around 10 or 11 years old when he first began picking up the basics of computer programming. “I was just really interested in technology and video games when I was young,” he says. Along with a few friends, he started toying around with those video games—learning how they worked,

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  “The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls” Is Free eBook

  1117 readersToday’s Free eBook of the Day is The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls by Jacqueline Overton. In this 1933 book, Overton recounts the life story of the great author of Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Here is...

• Amazon Kindle Fire Press Conference

  644 readers Have you been watching all the short clips of yesterday’s Amazon event? I have something better. Here’s Amazon’s official video of the press conference. It’s a little long at 51 minutes, but it’s a better quality video than a number of the clips. New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

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  Twitter Introduces Vine, Looped Video Sharing Service

  254 readersTwitter has a new video sharing service called Vine. Vine claims to be “the best way to see and share life in motion.” Like Viddy and SocialCam, the Vine app lets you post and share short video clips online. The unique aspect of Vine is that you edit as you are creating the video and the videos