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  1142 readersTeleread’s frequent contributor Joanna, aka Ficbot, has made her various ebook resources easier to find. She writes, “I have consolidated some of my on-line projects into a single handy website: the e-Finds Book Pages! It’s your central gathering place for The Indie eBook Hall of Fame, the eBacklist Collection, the best of my Teleread Articles and

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  Fun with statistics

  941 readersJust for some pre-long-weekend fun, some stats to entertain you I currently have 283 ebooks tagged in Delicious. This represents full-length books only; if I count magazines and other ephemera, my total ‘ebooks read’ are 348. Of those 283 books, 51 of them have been tagged a ‘favourite.’ 11 of these are commercial DRM’d titles 17 of

• Candlewick’s Karen Lotz on the Future of Illustrated Books in a Digital Era (Video)

  830 readers When the American Library Association announced its 2013 book award winners Monday at its midwinter meeting in Seattle, the Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children was awarded to This Is Not My Hat, written and illustrated by Jon Klassen and published by independent children’s book publisher Candlewick Press. Candlewick has long

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  New! The indie ebook hall of fame

  1279 readersI have a major announcement! I’ve been working away this weekend on a little webpage I’m calling The Indie eBook Hall of Fame. This site is designed to be a one-stop filter for readers to help them find the best of the best indie ebooks being reviewed out there in Blogland. To land on the

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  Editor’s Pick of the Week

  1743 readersGizmodo has an article on how to remove DRM from your Kindle ebooks Two articles on lending ebooks, by Sue Polanka Just How Big is the Kindle Revolution? Our Estimates, by Stephen Windwalker Chronicles of lost ebook sales, by Dave Slusher Why ProQuest brought ebrary, by Eric Hellman Paul Carr seeks a better way to

• Definitive Technology Bluetooth Sound Cylinder makes up for your tablet’s puny speakers

  1107 readersThe Sound Cylinder Bluetooth loudspeaker from Definitive Technology offers a major sound quality upgrade for any tablet or laptop. It will run you $200, but the sound quality it is capable of might just be worth it.

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  Tips for self-published authors to ensure a smooth review

  2366 readersI have been fielding a lot of author queries lately, and I have some suggestions for all you authors who want to ensure a smooth review. I’m going to explain my review process; of course, not all review bloggers work this way, but even so, I think many of them will relate to some of

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  How to Build a Best-Selling Children’s Book App

  700 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid Many book publishing companies are entering into the book application business, some with more success than others. National Geographic, the Washington, D.C.-based publisher of nature magazines and books, has a hit app on its hands with “Weird But True” based on its Weird But True book series. The book

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  The missing ingredient: quality control in Indie ebooks

  2028 readersTo me, the lack of quality control is a big deterrent to paying more than a dollar or two for an indie ebook from an author whose books I have not previously read. In the beginning, Smashwords was a great place to find indie books and give them a try, but that is rapidly changing as the number

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  Ebook recap for January 2011

  767 readersWhat was January like in the world of ebooks? Why, it was exactly like this list below! (More or less.) For our amusement, Electric Literature shoots bullets into books (and a Kindle) and films it. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) happens. The Digital Reader blog goes to check out the five billion tablets that were on