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Tim Waterstone to launch Read Petite Tim Waterstone, founder of the eponymous UK bookshop chain Waterstones, is launching Read Petite, a digital book service that will publish both new and old short fiction and non-fiction and eventually long-form journalism.… Read more »
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ICANN opens up a can of worms This spring, ICANN, the body that determines which domain names can be used on the Internet and which are out of bounds—last year they finally agreed to the domain name… Read more »
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Why Target is worried about associating with Amazon The above graph shows a possible effect of Amazon’s “Price Check” app: It charts the share price of Best Buy, which in March announced it was closing 50 of its… Read more »
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Enter the Storyverse Most avid readers would readily admit to having an obsessive side. A tech startup, Small Demons, aims to appeal to, nay manipulate, those literary obsessions, and the idea behind it… 1 / Read more »
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Argentina holds foreign books at customs In Argentina, a new and bizarre piece of red tape means that imported books and magazines are being held at customs at Ezeiza airport, some 25 miles outside of Buenos… 1 / Read more »
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IPG publisher says industry is in a state of ‘undeclared war’ An indie publisher has added his voice to the growing number of public opponents of Amazon. In his article ‘Amazon’s Assault on Intellectual Freedom’, Bryce Milligan of Wings Press in… Read more »
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Google re-thinks selling ebooks … again … We’ve noted many times that Google’s commitment to selling ebooks has been shaky at best. After launching its ebookstore with great ballyhoo, it then walked away from the program just… 2 / Read more »
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Google says it didn’t mean to kick lots of little indies out of its affiliates program … but not everyone believes them In one of the most transparent fibs of the year, and amidst a wash of bad publicity, Google announced yesterday that it hadn’t meant to kick numerous indie booksellers out… Read more »
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What Google’s eBookstore closures means for indies Late last week came the news that Google was closing out an undisclosed number of its eBookstore affiliate partners. This is perhaps the beginning of the final chapter in the long… Read more »
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VIDEO: The funniest video on the internet … … or is it? Google has developed an algorithm that judges comments left on YouTube videos, and through it they claim to have found the funniest video on the internet.… Read more »
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