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Have e-books turned a page?

Have e-books turned a page? 08/27/2004 01:42 PM
Steady growth suggests that the publishing industry may finally have a grip on what readers want from electronic books.

A New Page in Google's Books Fight

A New Page in Google's Books Fight 06/22/2005 02:33 AM

Have e-books turned a page? | CNET
News.com

Have e-books turned a page? | CNET
News.com 08/28/2004 04:46 AM
Have E-Books Turned a Page? .. story from CNET

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Bartleby - Great Books Online

Bartleby - Great Books Online 12/08/2003 06:59 AM
Bartleby - Great Books Online
http://www.bartleby.com/

The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers, and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.

Online Battle of Low-Cost Books.

Online Battle of Low-Cost Books. 07/12/2004 08:49 PM
NY Times: Online Battle of Low-Cost Books. "Used books are to consumer books as Napster was to the music industry. The question becomes, 'How does the book industry address its used-book problem?' There aren't any easy answers, especially as no one is breaking any laws here." Translation: First-sale rights are fine as long as it's hard to exercise them. Paging Cory Doctorow.

Free SF/F Books Online From Baen

Free SF/F Books Online From Baen 03/08/2004 11:17 PM
Last year I was complaining about the fact that I didn't have any fiction to read and a friend of mine recommended the Belisarius series by David Drake and Eric...

Online Battle of Low-Cost Books

Online Battle of Low-Cost Books 07/11/2004 10:43 PM
Some in the used-book industry are questioning whether Amazon.com is becoming the Napster of the book business.

First Cut Books: indie online bookstore
and publisher

First Cut Books: indie online bookstore
and publisher 12/06/2003 07:51 PM
First Cut Books is an online indie publisher and bookstore with a small, hand-picked, entertainingly reviewed selection of books. Link (Thanks, Lucia!)

Online journals boost books, ads,
software biz

Online journals boost books, ads,
software biz 07/03/2004 05:29 AM
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More Writers Offering Books For Free
Online

More Writers Offering Books For Free
Online 04/29/2004 02:42 PM
It appears that it's not only musicians recognizing the power of free publicity from putting their content for free online. While this article ignores the success of more recent authors to release books online (Cory Doctorow, Lawrence Lessig, etc...) in conjunction with their hardcopy release (as well as a number of authors now experimenting with releasing chapters of their books in progress), it appears that a more mainstream novelist, Matthew Reilly, is now releasing his latest novel online for free. He's releasing it in sections, rather than as a single download, but his theory is that it will help get him a bigger audience from readers who previously didn't know about him, or who were unlikely to find his books in bookstores. He hopes that it will encourage people to go out and buy his other books (this is his sixth book, and some of his earlier novels were apparently "best sellers"). Also, his publishing company will publish a hardcopy of this book later this year, after it's already completely free online. Apparently, the idea was entirely his, but his publishing company thinks it's a great idea - though, it may have helped that Reilly sold them the publishing rights for a $1 to get rid of the risk. It doesn't seem like my usual reading material, but if you're interested in what he describes as a "Tom Clancy-Michael Crichton" hybrid, you can download the first two sections of his book at the Hover Car Racer website.

Google's Latest Experiment: Books Online

Google's Latest Experiment: Books Online 12/18/2003 07:21 PM
By Jason Lopez. Google will begin offering a feature that allows users to read pages from books on its Web site. The new service ...

SQL Server 2000 Books Online (Updated)

SQL Server 2000 Books Online (Updated) 01/19/2004 10:41 AM

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Library
without books

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Library
without books 04/23/2004 12:13 PM
The Manchester Guardian's detailed review of the Librie .. Guardian Unlimited Online Library without books .. Librie

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Digital Library Project Publishes UC
Books Online

Digital Library Project Publishes UC
Books Online 12/02/2003 01:16 AM
The University of California has launched the eScholarship Editions collection, which represents about a third of the University of California Press books in print with an additional 300 out-of-print titles. Most of the books are available only from computers on...

Books top online sales in Middle East:
survey

Books top online sales in Middle East:
survey 07/10/2004 06:49 AM
Khaleejtimes.com - Sat Jul 10, 07:02 am GMT

Questia - The World's Largest Online
Library of Books

Questia - The World's Largest Online
Library of Books 09/15/2004 08:01 AM
Questia - The World's Largest Online Library of Books
http://www.questia.com/Index.j sp

Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles. You can search each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in the collection. You can read every title cover to cover. This rich, scholarly content -- selected by professional collection development librarians -- is not available elsewhere on the Internet. Undergraduate, high school, graduate students, and Internet users of all ages have found Questia to be an invaluable online resource. Anyone doing research or just interested in topics that touch on the humanities and social sciences will find titles of interest in Questia. To complement the library, Questia offers a range of search, note-taking, and writing tools. These tools help students locate the most relevant information on their topics quickly, quote and cite correctly, and create properly formatted footnotes and bibliographies automatically. Questia provides a comprehensive research environment to meet students' academic needs. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

Questia – The Online library of
Books and Journals

Questia – The Online library of
Books and Journals 11/02/2003 06:30 AM
Questia: .. questia .. Questa .. desta

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Google's plan to put books online will
boost libraries' exposure

Google's plan to put books online will
boost libraries' exposure 01/06/2005 07:24 AM
Kansas.com - Thu Jan 6, 11:51 am GMT

"Online Books, Poems, Short Stories -
Read Print"

"Online Books, Poems, Short Stories -
Read Print" 05/10/2004 03:11 AM

Computer and Internet Free Online Books
Searchable Database

Computer and Internet Free Online Books
Searchable Database 08/14/2004 06:07 AM
Computer and Internet Free Online Books Searchable Database
http://hogan-productions.co m/books/

This database contains links to free books available online. All their titles are full-text online editions unless otherwise indicated. Click on the title to view the free full-text online edition of a book. This has been added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

Online Books, Poems, Short Stories -
Read Print

Online Books, Poems, Short Stories -
Read Print 05/07/2004 07:11 PM
Read Print, a collection of public domain books, poems, and short stories .. ReadPrint

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Early English Books Online (EEBO) - TCP
(Text Creation Partnership)

Early English Books Online (EEBO) - TCP
(Text Creation Partnership) 09/11/2004 07:06 AM
Early English Books Online (EEBO) - TCP (Text Creation Partnership)
http:/ /www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=coll_eebo&src=alpha

EEBO

Early English Books Online (EEBO) makes available online more than 125,000 titles published between 1473 and 1700, starting with the earliest printed works in the English language. It reproduces the works listed in the Short-Title Catalogue I (Pollard & Redgrave, 1475-1640); the Short-Title Catalogue II (Wing, 1641-1700); the Thomason Tracts, a compendium of broadsides on the English Civil War printed between 1640 and 1661; and the Early English Books Tract Supplements. The works can be searched by author, title, printer, publication date, type of illustration, LC subject headings and other fields. Bibliographic records are linked to high-resolution facsimile images of the works, downloadable in Adobe PDF format. The EEBO database comprises TIFF images and their accompanying bibliographic data.

TCP

The EEBO-TCP project is an international scholarly collaboration and partnership between the British Library, Oxford University, the University of Michigan, JISC, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and ProQuest Information and Learning. This exceptional partnership has proposed to create 25,000 searchable and readable editions that link immediately to the corresponding Earley English Books Online image files. In combination, the text and image editions of these works provide a powerful research and instructional tool of unquestioned enduring value.

These have been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

Two-Page Tales Preview Online

Two-Page Tales Preview Online 12/08/2003 09:30 PM
Comics Continuum, one of my favorite news sites, has posted two pages of artwork from Star Wars Tales #18, the Boba Fett issue. Here's what they said about this particular story: "Revenants" pits Han Solo against an army of Boba Fetts in an action packed, high adventure story. Working off a script by author and game developer W. Haden Blackman, Grafiksismik's artists Dub and Niko Henrichon will collaborate on the pencils, with Pierre Andre Dery providing inks and Phiz coloring. Head here for the rest of the story, and the artwork!

BBC News Online - Front Page

BBC News Online - Front Page 04/26/2004 08:11 PM
BBC reporting provides a different perspective .. Prince Harry sent to a drugs clinic .. BBC News (Quality News) .. BBCi-Online .. Tony Blair .. News .. has

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Online Casinos Advertising Over Gamblers
Anonymous Page

Online Casinos Advertising Over Gamblers
Anonymous Page 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
It's not entirely clear what's happening here, but people are saying that when they visit the Gambler's Anonymous website in Australia, they're receiving pop-up ads for online casinos. As you might imagine, this is not considered appropriate. However, I'm confused as to what's actually happening. The folks running the Gambler's Anonymous site say that they have no control over the pop-ups, which wouldn't make sense if it's their site. Also, I visited the site and there don't seem to be any pop-ups at all. About the only thing I can guess is that these pop-ups are being caused by the type of insidious adware that we've been talking about quite frequently today. It would be nice if the report had more details.

The New York Times > Books > Will
Eisner, a Pioneer of Comic Books, Dies
at 87

The New York Times > Books > Will
Eisner, a Pioneer of Comic Books, Dies
at 87 01/05/2005 04:28 PM
this one by Sarah Boxer

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Macworld Expo keynote Webcast page back
online

Macworld Expo keynote Webcast page back
online 01/05/2004 03:41 AM
After a brief hiatus, it appears that Apple's QuickTime Webcast page for Steve Jobs' upcoming Macworld Expo keynote page is back online.

The New York Times > Books >
Books of The Times: The Pastiche of a
Presidency,Imitating a Life, in 957
Pages

The New York Times > Books >
Books of The Times: The Pastiche of a
Presidency,Imitating a Life, in 957
Pages 06/20/2004 03:35 AM
NYT BRUTAL BOOK REVIEW FOR BUBBA .. As you can see here .. review

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Lexington Herald-Leader | 07/04/2004 |
Front-page news, back-page coverage

Lexington Herald-Leader | 07/04/2004 |
Front-page news, back-page coverage 07/08/2004 02:18 AM
Noted in yesterday's Lexington [KY] Herald-Leader .. "We regret the omission." .. Read article .. Oops

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Quad-City Times Newspaper Online - the
Quad-Cities Home Page

Quad-City Times Newspaper Online - the
Quad-Cities Home Page 09/27/2004 09:19 AM
Gun cabinet locks no match for pen .. Keep bic pens away from your kids! .. More

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Hey, Your Library's Books Are in My
Google. No, Your Google Is in My Library
Books.

Hey, Your Library's Books Are in My
Google. No, Your Google Is in My Library
Books. 12/19/2004 03:36 PM

So the big< /a> news is about Google and libraries. I don't feel the need to comment on this right now, as you can find plenty of other places for that. However, here are a few angles I haven't seen discussed elsewhere in the library blogosphere.

• Librari es and the Internet
  
  "More broadly, the Internet can profoundly improve the relationship between libraries and society. For example, there are two major libraries in my town -- a college library, and a public library. My library card works in both places. I used to favor the college library, because there was open WiFi access there -- which meant, among other things, that I could use LibraryLookup from my laptop to find books in the stacks. Recently, though, the college shut down its open access point. And from an IT administrator's point of view, I can understand why. Not long after, the public library installed an open access point. So now it's my favorite spot, and lately I notice other mobile professionals congregating there too." [Jon Udell's Weblog
  (Click over to read Jon's story about getting locked in the library, too!)


• "A quick calculation using the figures above suggests an average scan rate of 3200 volumes per day (assuming 365 days/year for 6 years) at the University of Michigan site alone." [Tito Sierra on the WEB4 LIB mailing list]


• "An even quicker calculation shows that they will need to digitize 2.25 books _a_minute_, 24 hours/day, 365 days/year to digitize 7 million volumes in six years." [Roy Tennant on the WEB4 LIB mailing list]

It's times like this when I wish Karen Coyle had< /a> a blog.

What books should I buy?

What books should I buy? 03/28/2005 03:46 PM
For my birthday I got some money to buy some books. (When I’m not programming, I’m reading.)

I have a pretty good idea of what books I want to buy, but I’m always looking for cool books I don’t know about.

My interests are literary fiction, science fiction, spy/thriller novels, history, science, languages, art, and animals. (And other things too, but those are the main ones.)

Are there any books you’ve read lately that you just plain love, that you’d recommend to me?

Books Books Books

Books Books Books 09/18/2004 11:22 AM
Question for a gray Saturday. What is literature for ? Three litblogs -- Conversational Reading, The Reading Experience, and Leonard Bast -- discuss. Curl up and consider.

Books 2.0.8

Books 2.0.8 06/14/2004 06:04 PM
Personal library management software

Mac 911: One for the books

Mac 911: One for the books 04/15/2005 12:13 PM
Frustrated with iPhoto 5? The fix is in!

More about php|a books

More about php|a books 12/19/2004 03:37 PM
Since I posted my "undercover" announcement about php|architect starting to publish books, a few people have written me about whether the books will be electronic only and whether they will only be available through php|architect. The answer is... no, and no. The books will be available both in print and PDF ...

Win Books!

Win Books! 08/31/2004 11:37 AM
Internet Works Aug 31 2004 4:10PM GMT

Books We Like

Books We Like 12/17/2004 06:28 PM

This just in fromn Brad DeGRaf......

This is an invitation/request to help test and shape a cool new approach to “activist e-commerce”. You’re on this list if you’re a friend I thought would enjoy it and contribute something to it. It’s in beta and we need forgiving early users. (Thanks to those who responded to individual beta-test requests, and apologies for duplications).

It’s called BOOKS WE LIKE, initiated by Media Venture Collective with support from Alternet. Essentially it’s a way for progressives to “vote with their book purchases”, by aggregating their Amazon (or other online booksellers) purchases, thereby maximizing the resulting commissions, and pooling those to fund progressive independent media.

Every book bought there captures about a dollar that would otherwise go uncollected. That’s potentially millions per year of free money!

And it’s not even an extra step, because starting there allows users to comparison shop among Amazon, Powells, AbeBooks, and more coming.

Even better, it’s also a “peer-to-peer recommendation system“ that’s a fun way to promote and discover great books. Anyone can recommend their favorite books, and see what others recommend (and psycho-analyze them based on that). So users help important books find their audiences.

It also makes a great way to quickly add an online bookstore to any site. Just register, recommend, and link to your user home page.

It thus achieves without donations a potentially large source of funding for important public-interest media efforts. All profits go to funding independent media enterprises.

My URL is http://www.bookswelike.net/brad . Yours will be the same, except for switching “brad” for whatever name you register as. It will link to your book list, and tag new users as coming from you, as a way to involve you in deciding how to use the funds.

Please help us test and launch this experiment in new strategies for change. Register and recommend your favorite books, and buy some for holiday presents. And tell all your book-loving friends.

You’ll get one more of these, when we do a wider launch, then that will be it. Thanks in advance for whatever you can do to get it out there.

thx,

Brad

Books 2.0.6

Books 2.0.6 04/29/2004 01:33 PM
Personal library management software
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Colin Wilson, genius, knicker fetishist,
social misfit and author of 110 books
that even his publisher didn't want

Colin Wilson, genius, knicker fetishist,
social misfit and author of 110 books
that even his publisher didn't want 05/30/2004 11:21 PM
Colin Wilson: 'Now they will realise that I am a genius'

Guardian Unlimited Books | News | By the
book

Guardian Unlimited Books | News | By the
book 09/20/2004 10:10 AM
helped a number of British independent booksellers .. the success of the web-based secondhand bookstore .. more proftable than ever .. saved small bookstores .. By the book

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Books & Culture's Book of the Week : The
Worst President Ever ?

Books & Culture's Book of the Week : The
Worst President Ever ? 02/10/2004 02:36 AM
It's a daunting task. (I plugged warrenhardingrocks.com into Google and came up empty.) But The American Presidents Series, edited by Arthur Schlesinger Jr ...

Books In Print Offers Children's Book
Information

Books In Print Offers Children's Book
Information 03/19/2003 10:46 PM

Guardian Unlimited Books | Extracts |
Book extract: How To Be Idle by Tom
Hodgkinson

Guardian Unlimited Books | Extracts |
Book extract: How To Be Idle by Tom
Hodgkinson 08/15/2004 01:25 PM
most of us are still slaves to a schedule we did not choose .. This is required reading .. Buchexzerpt .. more» .. Guardian

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The New York Times > Books >
Sunday Book Review > The 9/11
Report: A Dissent

The New York Times > Books >
Sunday Book Review > The 9/11
Report: A Dissent 08/30/2004 03:27 PM
New York Times Book Review on the 9/11 Commission's report .. Richard Posner

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Holt Uncensored :: A Candid Look at
Books and the Book Industry : Publishing
News : Booksellers : Bookstores :
Reviews Interviews

Holt Uncensored :: A Candid Look at
Books and the Book Industry : Publishing
News : Booksellers : Bookstores :
Reviews Interviews 01/19/2004 06:13 AM
Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do) .. The full article .. 10 �����

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"What does the fashion for books about
the state of the English language tell
us?

"What does the fashion for books about
the state of the English language tell
us? 12/31/2004 12:43 PM
The Mother Tongue

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Books on computers: format combines text
and audio narration

Books on computers: format combines text
and audio narration 09/08/2004 02:39 PM
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The Year in Books 2003

The Year in Books 2003 11/17/2003 08:08 AM
The Year in Books 2003
http://publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com/index.asp ?layout=article&articleid=CA336073

The books of 2003 reflected a return to relative normality after the emotional and financial fallout of 9/11, which meant a publishing year characterized by both the predictable and the unexpected. If one name emerged from the Fiction pack, it was Dan Brown; if one theme dominated Nonfiction, it was the Iraq War and its aftermath.

The editors responsible for the following discussions and Best Books lists are: Fiction, Natasha Wimmer, Emily Chenoweth and Jeff Zaleski; Mystery, Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror, Peter Cannon; Mass Market, Brianna Yamashita; Comics, Calvin Reid, Heidi MacDonald and Douglas Wolk; Nonfiction, Sarah Gold, Lynn Andriani, Mark Rotella, Michael Scharf, Emily Chenoweth and Marcela Valdes; Illustrated Books, Michael Scharf; Lifestyle, Mark Rotella; Poetry, Michael Scharf; Religion, Jana Reiss.

See their "best books" in the following categories Fiction, Comics, Mystery, SF/Fantasy/Horror, Mass Market , Nonfiction, Ilustrated Books, Lifestyle, Poetry: Found in Translation, and Religion.

Free Books from O'Reilly

Free Books from O'Reilly 02/14/2004 11:51 PM

www.oreilly.com -- O'Reilly Open Books Project: Did you know O'Rielly publishes some free books? Man, I love free books.

Over the years, O'Reilly & Associates has published a number of "Open Books" — books with various forms of "open" copyright. The reasons for "opening" copyright, as well as the specific license agreements under which they are opened, are as varied as our authors.

There are a couple dozen, from gems like Using Samba to curiosities like Programming the Be Operating System and Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason.

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Crooked Timber: Books I Did Not Read
This Year

Crooked Timber: Books I Did Not Read
This Year 12/17/2003 06:06 AM
Crooked Timber's Books I Did Not Read This Year .. the top ten books he hasn't read this year

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Free Books for evolt.org Members

Free Books for evolt.org Members 12/09/2002 08:12 AM
How you can get your hands on a free copy of the Glasshaus book: "Usability, The Site Speaks for Itself" this holiday season.

Canadian Author Publishes new Book on
Making Money with Google

Canadian Author Publishes new Book on
Making Money with Google 06/22/2005 01:51 AM
With Google's AdSense program, computer users of all ages across the world can make money from their blogs and Web sites. Written for a non-technical audience, this book shows the reader how to create money-making Web sites and blogs. [PRWEB Jun 20, 2005]

The Online Books Page

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