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E-Books Are Superior Tools To Physical Books
Alan Jacobs has a succinct piece at The Atlantic today about the superiority of e-books to print when it comes to the use of a book as a tool. Here's what I think is the best snippet from the piece, though I highly recommend that you read it in full. For instance, consider these facts: (a) Reading is a major part of my job; (b) I annotate quite heavily the books I read for work; (c) I buy a lot ...
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Books for kids about Dickens
Just in time for the 200th birthday of Dickens, there are three new illustrated books based on his life and the books he wrote. ●“ Charles Dickens: England’s Most Captivating Storyteller ” by Catherine Wells-Cole (Templar Books $19.99), uses pictures from his original books and photos and other pieces of art. Readers “see” Dickens’s life story and important parts of the stories in his books. By ...
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Do E-Books Threaten Democracy?
Do digital books threaten our democracy? Depends on who you ask. eBooks are on trial once again. This time, they represent nothing short of an existential threat to democracy itself. In the prosecutor's corner we have novelist Jonathan Franzen, playing the role of 'bookservative' and decrying the rise of these anti-democratic digital
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Books May Be Better Objects, but E-Books Are Better Tools
Can Kevin Kelly and Nick Carr both be right? A plausible thought about the future of the book. Nick Carr likes the fixities of the printed book ; Kevin Kelly agrees that "these are very real, and ...
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E-Books Allow the Return of the Pulps
I must say that The Guardian seems rather sniffy about this, the way that e-books are allowing the return of pulp fiction. E-book sales are being driven by downmarket genre fiction It doesn?t sound like they approve, does it? Kindle-owning bibliophiles are furtive beasts. Their shelves still boast classics and Booker winners. But inside that ...
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Lehman Bust Left Goldmanite Derman, Das Reading Spinoza, ‘Gatsby’: Books
Writing books on finance is one thing; reading them is another.
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Indigo, Books-a-Million boycott Amazon
Booksellers Indigo Books and Music and Books-a-Million join Barnes & Noble in refusing to sell Amazon-published books – but Amazon may be looking into opening their own retail stores.
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No More E-Books Vs. Print Books Arguments, OK?
Bestselling novelist Jonathan Franzen came out heavily against ebooks, but, really, who cares?
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Classics Books distributes nearly $10,000 in books through 'Trenton Books at Home' program
In 2011, Classics Used and Rare Books, a modest book shop located at 117 S. Warren St. in downtown Trenton, distributed $9,955 worth of books to Trenton students. The mass distribution, made possible with the partnership of various local groups, aims to help kids in struggling school districts find surer paths to success. Classics Books, store representative Eric Maywar says, regularly raises ...
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Microsoft Dynamics Books for 2012 - From Packt Publishing
Packt Publishing, one of the world’s leading publishers of Microsoft Dynamics books and e-books, and Dynamics training, celebrates its range of Dynamics titles and cements its reputation with five new titles now slated for publication in 2012. The first of these books - Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Dashboards Cookbook was published in January 2012. In February, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 ...
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