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Google Books Lawsuit Lurches Forward
The fate of Google’s massive book scanning project has been up in the air since a legal settlement collapsed last year. New court filings this week suggest a possible end game.
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E-Books Are Superior Tools To Physical Books
Alan Jacobs has a succinct piece at The Atlantic today about the superiority of e-books to print when it comes to the use of a book as a tool. Here's what I think is the best snippet from the piece, though I highly recommend that you read it in full. For instance, consider these facts: (a) Reading is a major part of my job; (b) I annotate quite heavily the books I read for work; (c) I buy a lot ...
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Books for kids about Dickens
Just in time for the 200th birthday of Dickens, there are three new illustrated books based on his life and the books he wrote. ●“ Charles Dickens: England’s Most Captivating Storyteller ” by Catherine Wells-Cole (Templar Books $19.99), uses pictures from his original books and photos and other pieces of art. Readers “see” Dickens’s life story and important parts of the stories in his books. By ...
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Indigo Books profit falls on lower margins
TORONTO (Reuters) - Indigo Books & Music Inc reported lower quarterly earnings on Wednesday as discounts on print books and higher sales of low-margin e-readers pushed down gross profit margin even as revenue rose slightly. The company said the lower margins had not yet been offset by an expected gain in the sales of gifts and toys, which the company is putting more emphasis on. For the company ...
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Do E-Books Threaten Democracy?
Do digital books threaten our democracy? Depends on who you ask. eBooks are on trial once again. This time, they represent nothing short of an existential threat to democracy itself. In the prosecutor's corner we have novelist Jonathan Franzen, playing the role of 'bookservative' and decrying the rise of these anti-democratic digital
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Alltopics.com Offers News Information On Books
Today Alltopics.com has launched Books as a new topic of the website. Books articles, all gathered from every source on the Web, are now easily accessible and widely read. Books.alltopics.com is the number one news and information website that grabs Books articles from all over the Internet, rates them by popularity and displays the topics proudly on the internet’s most amazing database. ...
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Books on a Racial Attraction, a Religious Rejection and New York Architecture
Books on Carl Van Vechten, a white writer who had a passion for blackness, on a woman’s rejection of her Hasidic roots and on New York architecture.
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Books or e-Books? Who cares as long as people are reading
AS sales of paper books drop, writer Adele Parks says how we read doesn't matter
www.thesun.co.uk
Graphic Books Best Sellers: A Dispute Over 'Walking Dead' Payments
The artist Tony Moore has sued the creator of the best-selling "The Walking Dead" graphic novels over royalty payments.
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com
Penguin halts e-books sales to libraries
Penguin Group (USA), which publishes such best-sellers as Kathryn Stockett's "The Help" and "Elizabeth Gilbert's "Eat, Pray, Love," has stopped selling e-books to libraries.
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