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Shake Off the Dust - and Rediscover the Company Library
In 1990 at a newspaper library, we thought it was pretty amazing when we went from cutting the papers up by hand and filing them in cardboard envelopes to formatting text on green screens into a database that allowed the unimaginable number of up to ten people to read the
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Amazon's Earnings Highlight the Consumer Transition to Digital
Amazon posted its earnings last night with sales up 22% on the quarter. But the key trend highlighted is the massive move to digital reading and consumption on Kindle devices, with physical book sales at their slowest growth since Amazon's founding.
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Report: Libraries Becoming More Digital, But Still Maintain Traditional Services
The function of the public library is changing, according to a new report from The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. The report, "Library Services in the Digital Age," was compiled by Kathryn Zickuhr, Lee Rainie and Kristen Purcell from October to November 2012 in the
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New Amazon Kindle Fire Arriving Soon, Coming to Europe?
Having got off to a roaring start, its all been rather quiet on the Kindle Fire front recently. Amazon seems to be making moves with word that the Europe might get it to boost sales, while America may get a new higher-spec version to revitalise interest.
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Apple Announces iBooks 2 and iBooks Author At New York Event
As expected, Apple's education event at the Guggenheim Museum brought forth new ways for students to read their classic texts in interactive, digital form.
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Apple to Announce a Garageband for eBooks?
Apple's Thursday event won't be a show-stopper in the usual iDevice sense, but early chatter suggests that the company may be about to revolutionize ebook creation. It could achieve this by launching a Garageband-like app to bring content-rich, Web-enabled, digital book creation tools to everyone.
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Barnes & Noble to Release Nook Color E-Readers, Android Tablets for Holidays
The holiday season is nearing, and gadget-makers are scrambling to be in the lead in terms of sales and market share. Just as Amazon is promising to announce its new Kindle this week, Barnes & Noble is reportedly planning the launch of new Nook Color Android tablets priced at $349.
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Apple, Social Business Software Could Miss Their Chance to Topple Microsoft
In my last post, I talked about some of the ways that the iPad and social business software (SBS) both had tremendous opportunities to outflank Microsoft's dominance in the desktop document creation and document management space, respectively.
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Are E-Readers Stealing Tablets' Thunder? As Star Wars Joins the E-Rebels?
As e-reader sales race ahead of those jumped-up, overpriced, tablets, led by Amazon's (news, site ) Kindle, does America just want a really good read? And will the release of the Star Wars novels give them an even bigger boost? The Force is With Them In a fortuitous move
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Amazon Sells More E-Books Than Print, But Wait
Amazon (news, site ) has trumpeted the fact that, less than four years after introducing Kindle books, its customers are now purchasing more Kindle books than all print books -- hardcover and paperback -- combined. However, it's important not to take this announcement at face value.
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Google Dives Deeper in eBooks, Acquires eBook Technologies
Google started the new year with a new purchase of a small and relatively unknown company, eBook Technologies. The new purchase only fueled rumors of Google's plans to expand on the ebook market. It is hard to imagine that Google (news, site ) will turn into a
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O'Reilly and MSFT Press Books for Sale at Apple iBookstore
Here's an all-new level of geekery: Now you can purchase O'Reilly and Microsoft Press Books from the Apple iBookstore. Download the iBooks app to your iPad, iPod touch or iPhone, and you've got a massive searchable reference pool on the go.
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Survey: Seeking Book Publishing Professionals
Are you a high or mid-level book publishing professional? Got something to say about eBooks and digital publishing? If so, CMSWire encourages you to participate in a “blueprint” survey from the Gilbane Group. The survey is one of the research mechanisms for their upcoming study A Blueprint for Book Publishing Transformation: Seven Essential Processes to Re-Invent Publishing and seeks to
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Web Publishing Roll-up: NYT Will Make You Pay, Amazon Splits Its List and Stanford Goes Bookless
They say desperate times call for desperate measures. Whether it’s a need for more revenue, better access or more space, this week in web publishing brings you several innovative solutions. Another New York Times Pay Wall If you’re a New York Times reader, use the next seven months to read
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