Latest and Breaking Books News and Top Stories - July 2
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The Onyx Boox T68 Lynx is the very latest e-reader to hit the market and is fairly compelling with its open Android concept. One of the primary benefits of this ultramodern reader is the ability to read in the dark and have control over ...
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The Onyx Boox T68 Lynx is one of the first commercially viable e-readers that has an open version of Google Android. This means, you can load in your own apps or install your favorites via Google Play. Today, we look at various e-reading...
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3M has released a few different generations of their self-checkout systems for libraries and their latest iteration certainly will impress. It allows for many different display languages and the ability to pay fines directly on the machi...
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The only thing more adorable than a Disney character, is a Tsum based on one (think Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, the Chipmunks, and Pluto in the form of soft, fluffy toys). Described as a puzzle matching and stacking game, LINE: Disney...
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The Lynx e-reader is very much akin to the Kobo Aura HD, in terms of specs. It features a 6.8 e-Ink capacitive Ultra HD EPD display screen and a resolution of 1440×1080 pixels. Underneath the hood is a Freescale i.MX Cortex A9 1.0GHz pro...
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So one of the big questions with the Onyx Boox T68 ebook reader is if the Kindle for Android app works on it or not. This is important because it would make it one of the only non-Kindle E Ink ereaders to officially support Kindle ebooks...
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The bungalo where George Orwell was born, in what is now Motihari, India, is being restored.
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It’s no secret that newspapers as a whole are on the decline. Some of the longest-standing family-owned outlets in the country have already shuttered their doors, and the ones who are managing to stay afloat are doing so with the h...
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Charles Seife’s “Virtual Unreality” covers Internet hazards from sock puppets to bimbots.
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In Emily Gould’s “Friendship,” two young women, having made a start in New York in their 20s, now try to find their way in their 30s.
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Pankaj Mishra and Francine Prose discuss whether categories like immigrant fiction are useful or meaningful labels.
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The American Library Association Annual conference in Las Vegas is wrapping up and Good e-Reader was live on the scene. We checked out all of the emerging trends for the modern digital library, such as pay per use and the rise of audiobo...
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In a report from two entities that watch the publishing industry in the US, sales figures for 2013 show some surprising trends. These trends, followed by the Book Industry Study Group and the Association of American Publishers in their a...
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Library Collection Managers often have to buy the titles they want to make available to their patrons. eBooks, audiobooks, music and streaming movies all have to be purchased in advance in order to have them included in the catalog to be...
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Just in time for summer travel, Smashwords is offering up an author opportunity that is too good too miss. In exchange for a multi-tiered discount on their titles, authors can be included in Smashwords’ Summer/Winter Promotion. Why...
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In the social-network beginning, there was Orkut (at least as far as Google was concerned)… but now there are a host of other apps and projects like YouTube, Blogger, and Google+. Unfortunately, Orkut never really caught on ...
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Today I put together several video reviews of the Onyx Boox T68 Lynx ebook reader, a new 6.8-inch ereader that runs Android 4.0 and sells on Amazon for $199. The Boox T68 is one of the first E Ink ebook readers to run Android and come wi...
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Those of us with a love of books have been watching the Reading Rainbow Kickstarter campaign rather closely. The original goal was $1 million, but that was reached rather handily early on –prompting a revision that made the goal $5...
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Google has made a few changes on their end (so no update is required on your devices) that let you watch any of your TV and movie purchases through the Android YouTube app. Effective immediately, all titles you own are listed in chronolo...
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Most games found on mobile devices have familiar formulas and predictable controls, neither is true for Blek. Designed to test the boundaries of imagination and intelligence as portrayed on a touch screen, Blek is as fun as it is ...
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It was “Old Filth” that brought the English author Jane Gardam to the attention of most of the Americans who know her writing.
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With so much happening in the world of digital publishing for the higher education market, it’s easy to forget that the public education sector is lagging behind at a pitiful pace. Ironically, it’s this K12 market that could ...
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A nonlinear look at 150 years of baseball history, with an eye to the social, cultural and political forces behind the game.
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As booksellers around the world continue to feel the pinch of trying to do business in an online retail climate, the French Parliament has taken action that at least intends to protect bookshops in some small way. After passing what it h...
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And the Dark Sacred Night by Julia Glass Reviewed by Ronald from Lyle, Washington.
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This post is sponsored by Harlequin in support of the release of Little Mercies by Heather Gudenkauf. If you're looking for a great summer read, Little Mercies fits the bill. It's available in stores now! It's summer. It's hot. It's time...
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Barnes and Noble and Kobo have been running their self-publishing programs for a number of years. The two companies do very little to promote their services via the standard PR channels and most authors are blissfully unaware they even e...
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Publisher’s Weekly’s annual report on the global publishing market has the education publisher Pearson in the top spot, with over nine billion dollars in revenue, and Random House as the world’s largest trade publisher, making around thr...
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An engaging memoir sketches the rediscovery of a lapsed musical passion
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I started to read Michael Waldman's book, The Second Amendment: A Biography , with a certain amount of trepidation, because if nothing else, here's someone who hits the ground running when it comes to anything having to do with public po...
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Mr. Grossman was typically referred to as a poet’s poet for his brainy and lyrical poems that were proudly high-minded and often written in a voice described as conversationally academic.
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They’re handsome devils.
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The American Library Association Annual conference every year is the perfect avenue to gauge emerging trends. During the 2014 event in Las Vegas, three trends eclipsed all others that had the entire floor buzzing with anticipation. Pay p...
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The kingdom of this world An old hermit was once invited to visit the court of the most powerful king of the day. “I envy a holy man, who is content with so little,” commented the sovereign. “I envy Your Majesty, who is content with less...
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Libraries have traditionally been a destination to borrow books, digital content and to train the community via various outreach programs. You can now add self-publishing to the libraries arsenal via a new system developed by Fastpencil ...
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Novelists with ties to Africa are gaining prominence in the publishing world as they become more cosmopolitan, and America does, too.
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Verdict: 4 Stars Equal parts mystery and broken family saga with elements of deep dark secrets, this title is hard to categorize into just one genre. Married couple Siri and Jon head back to her childhood home for the summer so Jon can p...
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Here’s a list of free Kindle books as of June 29th, 2014. Please note that some of these ebooks are free for a limited-time only and could expire at anytime. Make sure to double-check that they are still free before hitting the buy...
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“Redeeming the Dream” centers on the lawyers Theodore B. Olson and David Boies and their fight to end California’s law against same-sex marriage.
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Reading Adam Phillips' account of Freud's early years, Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst , I was reminded of philosopher of history Hayden White's remarks at Wesleyan University's Commencement this year. You can change your p...
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'His great-grandmother was sitting by the fire mending one of the old patchwork quilts. Tolly was familiar with the quilts, some of which were used as curtains for the living-room windows, hanging from ceiling to floor in bulgy folds aga...
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It's been great fun seeing the letter meme travel around the blogosphere - I haven't had time to interact with anybody's list, but I will do so when I can. I spent this weekend in the Lake District, going to my dear friend Epsie's weddin...
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Good writers sometimes stake out one corner of the world and cultivate it for most or all of their careers: Flannery O’Connor’s rural Georgia, John Cheever’s Eastern suburbia and Michael Connelly’s Los Angeles are examples. The American ...
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Good e-Reader recently reported on the good work that digital publisher and ebook distributor 0s & 1s is doing in helping smaller, independent publishers and presses digitize and sell their content. With more than twenty presses alre...
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Many thanks for all the kind messages you’ve sent recently. My health is continuing to improve – although I have more tests to complete and still don’t know the cause of my heart problem. I’ve been able to read ag...
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The subway suddenly seems like a fun place to be after seeing Bong Joon-ho’s … Read More
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Which very clearly has a failing disk drive. Yes, everything important is backed up, don’t worry. Still annoying. See you all tomorrow.
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An Arizona State University professor who is facing charges of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest says that police used excessive force in slamming her to the ground during an encounter. On May 20, Ersula Ore, an English pr...
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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin. $ 1.99 at AMZ | Google From the Jacket Copy: Mara Dyer doesn’t know if she is crazy or haunted—all she knows is that everyone around her is dying in this suspenseful... more Read...
