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New Direction, New Momentum
Plenty of things have been happening in the world of ebooks over the past few weeks, but for the first time I’ve been too busy working on an exciting project of my own to post about them. That project...
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BookLamp’s Book Genome Project
So this is an awesome little project I’ve only just heard of. Hands up if you’ve heard of Pandora, the music recommendation engine? If you haven’t and you live in Australia, then you probably can’t...
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The Many Faces of the Kindle
So Amazon have finally started officially letting word out about their new tablet. TechCrunch’s MG Siegler has used one himself, and TechCrunch put together the mock-up above to demonstrate how it...
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Kindle Library Lending – What You Need to Know
Amazon announced this morning that they are rolling out their support for library lending to 11,000 libraries (read: 11,000 libraries in the United States). This has been a long time coming, and the...
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Amazon Just Made Ads in Books Work – Whether We Like it or Not
So I’ve been saying to anyone who’ll listen that this year, Amazon will release a standard Kindle for $99 or less, making the prospect of buying a device like an e-reader that much more palatable (and...
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Tools of Change for Publishers
Day one of O’Reilly’s Tools of Change conference was yesterday. It’s was a mixed bag, with a lot of very strong speakers and some that seemed to be struggling to make an impact (or struggling for...
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The Challenges of Training Publishers to use Social Media
The Tools of Change social media conference was another mixed bag – but it got me thinking about exactly what it means to be trained to use social media. The problem – and I suspect it’s something...
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Unwin Trust Fellowship Report Overview
Download the full report PDF here, or you can get it as an ebook in EPUB or Kindle format. I don’t think many publishers are sitting there saying ‘What are our digital experiments, how are we...
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