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Nebraska library adopts CC

Mark one small victory for supporters of Creative Commons, the alternative licensing protocol that gives authors more freedom to dictate restrictions on their work. As reported on the Nebraska Library Commission blog, several CC titles ... Read More »

February 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

No more bubble envelopes

By Nathan Whitlock

New books are not particularly fragile. Everyone knows that. In fact, that's one of the big reasons why paper-and-ink texts are still preferred by such a wide margin over breakable, expensive-to-replace e-books and e-readers. So ... Read More »

February 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Free as in beer and books

By Nathan Whitlock

Now that the crisis over parity and pricing has eased somewhat “ at least for the moment “ we can again turn our attention to a more pressing issue in books: how can we get ... Read More »

February 11, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Book prices for pundits

By Stuart Woods

As New York Times critic Dwight Garner highlights on his blog, Abebooks is reporting on its website that collectible editions of Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father, the Democrat hopeful's 1995 autobiography, have sold through ... Read More »

January 8, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

The p-book revolution

By Nathan Whitlock

Defences of the old-skool paper-and-ink book against the nefarious Borg-like proponents of the e-book too often sound, for all their passion and sincerity, as if they should be read aloud by Wilfred Brimley, or even ... Read More »

January 7, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

This week in Kindle-bashing

By Nathan Whitlock

Reactions to Amazon's new e-reader generally fall into two opposing camps: on the one hand, there are those who are shocked and appalled at the very notion, while others believe a wonderful new era has ... Read More »

December 17, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Text-message lit a hit in Japan

By Stuart Woods

The latest news from the annals of text-message lit comes from Japan, where cell-phone novels “ books composed on a cell phone's cramped keyboard and consumed on its tiny screen “ are producing bestsellers, emoticons ... Read More »

December 4, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Is the e-book revolution half-empty or half-full?

By Stuart Woods

Bad news, folks: new technology like the Kindle will enable the greedy, unruly masses to bankrupt the publishing industry as we know it. Glum futurist and TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington sounds the death knell on ... Read More »

December 4, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks – Khaled Hosseini says stay the course, A.L. Kennedy pleads for school and library funding, and more

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, urges U.S. and allies to stay in Afghanistan (AFP) A.L. Kennedy wins Scottish book award, makes plea for school and library funding (The Scotsman) Author ... Read More »

December 3, 2007 | Filed under: Book links

Reading outside of the book

By Stuart Woods

Despite its klunky design and prohibitive cost, the Kindle ebook reader is the beginning of the end of publishing as we know it, according to Guardian blogger and budding futurist Rob Woodard. Not only that, ... Read More »

November 27, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

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