Writing about: Links for 2012-05-31 [http://t.co/OLL6Rz4j] http://t.co/xrhe0PJP
Writing about: Links for 2012-05-31 [http://t.co/OLL6Rz4j] http://t.co/xrhe0PJP
Visitors to the 3M Library Systems booth at Book Expo America will learn about 3M Cloud Library’s new partnerships with INscribe Digital, Smashwords, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group and the National Book Network (NBN) which are increasing the eBook system’s total list of offerings to more than 200,000 titles from over 300 publishers
In its filing, Apple also referred to Amazon, saying that the government was siding with “monopoly, rather than competition.”
Regardless of your faith walk, we can all connect to the idea that something important is taking place in a state of ambiguity, constant change, and murky messages. I do not equate DPLA with the Rapture (although, if the Rapture involved lots of books, that would be pretty cool), but I do think that we are in a moment of tumultuous change, and that in this moment we need to be both very alert and yet very open.
RT @jafurtado: Penguin, Macmillan respond to DOJ in e-book price fixing suit,by Laura Hazard Owen |@laurahazardowen /paidContent
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Mary Pope Osborne: 'Reading Should Be a Family Affair' http://t.co/4fFUpd8S
5 of 5 stars to The Absent Sea by Carlos Franz http://t.co/HSpSHnpY
Finished with The Absent Sea, by Carlos Franz: #fridayreads http://t.co/SvIgju3y
4 of 5 stars to Kindred by Octavia E. Butler http://t.co/Bm1bir5Z
RT @infotweets: A good read from Cheryl Gould:... http://t.co/e3eLRJyq
Writing about: A Future of Reading: The Barnes and Noble Nook Check-out Project http://t.co/E9gwj82H
Schmidt challenges grads to turn off the screen for an hour a day http://t.co/4EmuRUK7
Hachette is offering new e-books to some libraries http://t.co/QtC6M4h3
ArsTechnica: E-books may take a page out of digital music's book http://t.co/F2AZsJbN
On page 59 of 375 of The Absent Sea, by Carlos Franz: #fridayreads That could be one paradoxical virtue of old age,... http://t.co/SMKtivUD
On page 165 of 264 of Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler: #fridayreads http://t.co/gbmFdiky
Nooks are walking out. Two minutes in and we are out of fiction bestsellers. http://t.co/SuTfA5Tu
On Friday, the Tulare County Library will help its patrons further the transition into the growing world of digital books by offering e-book readers that can be checked out from the Visalia library.
"What he found was that in most cases, both consumers and critics gave similar scores, but with a couple of important differences. Professional reviewers, for instance, tended to give higher ratings to authors who had received widespread attention or won book awards than Amazon reviewers, while Amazon reviewers were more favorable to first-time authors than critics were."