Wednesday Midday Links Roundup:
In non shocking news, while first day sales of the Kindle version of The Lost Symbol were strong, digital sales represents only about 5% of the 2 million copies sold so far which was in line with what...
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Saturday Midday News: Red Rose Publishing Threatens Legal Action
On Friday, I received a phone call from a lawyer in Utica, New York who represents Red Rose Publishing. RRP is claiming that I defamed them in this post here wherein I summarized the reported...
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HarperCollins total year-end results are unclear given that parent company news Corp. did not break out the division in the year-end report. However, the children’s division improved and e-book sales...
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Monday Midday News: BN & Microsoft’s Nook Deal. Is this the end of B&N?
On Saturday, I received this email from a reader. I have her permission to repost it. I find it ironic that I am posting this today when the news in the book world is replete with details about Barnes...
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Tuesday Midday Links Roundup: Microsoft unveils a beautiful new tablet with...
Microsoft Microsoft held a press event wherein they announced their new tablet called Microsoft Surface. It’s a beautiful, lust worthy device. The only problem? No price or ship date. Nonetheless, here...
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Tuesday News: B&N to launch in the UK in October; Penguin and Harlequin...
Barnes & Noble to launch in the UK in October – Barnes & Noble will launch http://nook.co.uk in Mid-October and will announce partnerships with “leading UK retailers” shortly. “The first...
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Wednesday News: Bodyform reveals the truth about periods; MS Surface pricing...
This May Be The Best Response To A Facebook Rant — Period. – An internet troll or comedian or someone named Richard Neill posted a facebook rant about how a Maxipad company lied to him in commercials...
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Friday News:3D Gun made;Teenage lady coder solves everyone’s Twitter...
BBC News – Downloads for 3D-printed Liberator gun reach 100,000 – So last year I started writing about 3D printing and in October, someone posited that guns would soon be built with a push of a button...
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Friday News: Scribd’s most downloaded books, Amazon Prime’s price increase,...
The Most Popular Book in Each of the 50 States – So the first caveat here is the results are limited to Scribd downloads, which makes the results both narrower and more interesting. Alabama, for...
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Wednesday News: Harper Collins doubles down on DRM, Canada may tax Netflix...
HarperCollins Adds Digital Watermarks to E-books – I read this whole article shaking my head at the idea that Harper Collins actually thinks it’s a good idea to add MORE DRM to their digital books....
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Friday News: Hachette & Amazon make nice; Internet tax bill; map of...
Updated: Amazon and Hachette finally reach deal; Hachette will set its ebook prices – The war appears to be over between Hachette and Amazon, and whatever the state of their relationship, readers get...
View ArticleMonday News: harassment, privacy, self-publishing, and flowers
Inside the underage sex scandal that’s tearing Vine apart – So despite all the tough talk from Hank and John Green about the sexual abuse and harassment issues in the Vine and YouTube communities, the...
View ArticleTuesday News: Hachette, book banning, Windows, and 17th C London
Hachette Book Group Reported Revenues Down 7.8% in the First Half – Pointing to a lack of major bestsellers during the first half of 2015, Hachette has announced that revenue is down so far this year,...
View ArticleThursday News: SXSW, Microsoft, Disney, and the best meditation ever
Exclusive: After Gamergate Misstep, SXSW Weighing an All-Day Forum on Online Harassment – So following the backlash against SXSW’s announcement to pull two panels on gaming, and perhaps even more...
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Tuesday Midday Links Roundup: Microsoft unveils a beautiful new tablet with...
Microsoft Microsoft held a press event wherein they announced their new tablet called Microsoft Surface. It’s a beautiful, lust worthy device. The only problem? No price or ship date. Nonetheless, here...
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Tuesday News: B&N to launch in the UK in October; Penguin and Harlequin...
Barnes & Noble to launch in the UK in October – Barnes & Noble will launch http://nook.co.uk in Mid-October and will announce partnerships with “leading UK retailers” shortly. “The first...
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Wednesday News: Bodyform reveals the truth about periods; MS Surface pricing...
This May Be The Best Response To A Facebook Rant — Period. – An internet troll or comedian or someone named Richard Neill posted a facebook rant about how a Maxipad company lied to him in commercials...
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Friday News:3D Gun made;Teenage lady coder solves everyone’s Twitter...
BBC News – Downloads for 3D-printed Liberator gun reach 100,000 – So last year I started writing about 3D printing and in October, someone posited that guns would soon be built with a push of a button...
View ArticleFriday News: Scribd’s most downloaded books, Amazon Prime’s price increase,...
The Most Popular Book in Each of the 50 States – So the first caveat here is the results are limited to Scribd downloads, which makes the results both narrower and more interesting. Alabama, for...
View ArticleWednesday News: Harper Collins doubles down on DRM, Canada may tax Netflix...
HarperCollins Adds Digital Watermarks to E-books – I read this whole article shaking my head at the idea that Harper Collins actually thinks it’s a good idea to add MORE DRM to their digital books....
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