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Friday, March 13 at 1:00am
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Booksquare i rarely do weekly wrap-ups because, well, others do them far better. but last week was the rollercoaster of publishing news...thus a really long wrap-up that includes the nook, stephen king, and some people who might very well save publishing.
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A lot happened in publishing this week -- so much that just as I wrapped my head around one thing, something new popped up to either make me re-evaluate my
Booksquare Thoughts on TOC Frankfurt and beyond (beyond being piracy, DRM, and accessibility).
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Like so many others, I am bemused by some of the coverage of the Tools of Change Frankfurt conference (bemused=not sure people interviewed were at same
Booksquare i rarely admit to being wrong...
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Once upon a time, I believed that nobody wanted a single purpose reading device. Why, I wondered, would anyone want something that did only one thing*, albeit
Booksquare A great rant from David Rothman of TeleRead about local bookstores.
‘Arguing with Idiots’: If book chains want to save paper books from the Kindle, why are they so stup
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Jobs might be lost if I’m not careful. So I won’t even say which book chain it was---just that this little chat happened recently at a store in a liberal
Booksquare Not sure why there's so much hype about Twitter or what it can do for you? Kirk Biglione of Booksquare University (our fight song rocks!) dispels the myths and explains the benefits.
Booksquare And now that the dust has settled on BEA, my thoughts.
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It is perhaps telling that I left BookExpo America 2009 with the same feeling I had in 2006. And 2008. This time, however, there is also a layer of optimism,
Booksquare Once again, prices are the topic du week. More thoughts and questions.
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Resolved: digital books will be a growing and important part of the reading mix of the future. Resolved: readers are not monolithic nor predictable and will
Booksquare Who wins, who loses in the Kindle pricing wars? Not who you'd think.
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It should come as no surprise that a group of enterprising Amazon customers have joined together to boycott Kindle books priced about $9.99. I've been holding
Booksquare Envisioning how the publishing company of the future might work.
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Looking back, the worst part about the New Think panel at South by Southwest was not the lack of new thinking. It was the sense that the panelists didn't have a
Booksquare With so much news, a big, long post was the only way to go.
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Used to be that working the d-book (digital book) beat was an easy gig. You could go years without any news of note. Lately, you can't go to bed for fear of
Booksquare prefers the new pages layout, but needs to get the RSS feed going again!
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