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The Kindle is the logical evolution of a 500-year-old analog technology that terrifies the $24 billion book -publishing industry already faint from Amazon’s growing dominance.

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Amazon's Kindle: Will It Do to Books What Apple's iPod Did to the …

And, since I need to update the books section (I get 7.5% of all sales purchased through Powell’s Books ), you can use this as a thread for listing any books that are out there that you want to read, or have read and want to recommend to …

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Booman Tribune ~ Open Books Thread

“Life, On the Line,” the book proposal Grant Achatz was shopping around, has been sold to Gotham Books . Mr. Achatz had feared that publishers might balk at the dual-voice approach, with passages by Mr

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Gotham Books Buys “Life, On the Line” – Diner's Journal Blog …

For those of you who love your books more than life itself, this might not be an easy story for you to read. You’ve been warned.

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Giving Up Your Books is Not So Easy, But It Can be Done

At one point in time you had to go to a local library or a bookstore to find a great book . You could look over what they had and find something that interested you.

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From Paper And Ink To iPods: Downloadable Books | Tatuaj.org

The means of advertising books and movies are many: posters in trendy locales, website ads, reviews in papers or blogs, displays at stores, entertainment segments or interviews on popular news and talk shows, and word-of-mouth that …

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The Big Bad Book Blog » Blog Archive » See No Books, Read No Books …

In its frenzy to digitize the holdings of its partner collections, in this case those of the Stanford University Libraries, Google Books has pursued a “good enough” scanning strategy. The books ‘ pages were hurriedly reproduced: No …

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Google Books Mutilates the Printed Past | LISNews

Last night, I read two books to my 7-year-old daughter (It’s her birthday today, actually), and my 3-year-old son.

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Kids Books With Fresh Messages | chrisbrogan.com

Some people might be sniffy, but I think the idea could really catch on.

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Making scents out of novels | Books | guardian.co.uk

WORLD Magazine | Angry Conversations with God | | Susan Isaacs | Jun 20 09 | World Magazine is a full color biweekly news magazine that provides complete coverage of national news and international news, written from a Christian …

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WORLD Magazine | Notable books | Susan Isaacs | Jun 20, 09