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E-book momentum
A front-page, above-the-fold story in today’s New York Times about e-books suggests that the devices are finding new readership and acceptance. According to the story, “Turning Page, E-Books Start To...
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News Publishers and the iPhone
I was speaking at a law school panel discussion a couple of months ago. The session was being recorded, and the technician was using wireless microphones. He was picking up interference during sound...
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Cooler Cool-er?
An item with the headline “Electronic Books” on page 8 of today’s Financial Times points to an entry in the Financial Times’s Techblog by Chris Nuttall, “Cool-er e-reader takes on the Kindle.” The item...
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The Mediated Book
“The Mediated Book” U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 463 RANDAL C. PICKER, University of Chicago – Law School Text in hand, we have read books by candlelight, oil lamp and...
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Law Books on Kindle
“Amazon will sell continuing education legal books from the Practising Law Institute on Kindle . . . “ The Wall Street Journal, Friday, July 10, 2009, p. B6 Amazon’s Kindle to Sell Law Books By Jeffrey...
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Why won’t Amazon let us share eBooks?
Larry Magid in his “Digital Crossroads” column in today’s San Jose Mercury News (p. c3) asks “Why won’t Amazon let us share eBooks?” and he reports on a couple of library efforts to circulate books via...
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E-books in the news
The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, July 21, 2009, p. B1, Barnes & Noble Challenges Amazon’s Kindle, by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg and Geoffrey A. Fowler. “The biggest news here is the multi-channel...
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Kindle and Libraries
In yesterday’s New York Times, Claire Cain Miller and Miguel Helft reported on Apple’s tighter control of the App store. TechCrunch then added that Apple’s moves may “foreshadow war with Amazon...
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E-book lending sites
From today’s Wall Street Journal (p. B8): Digital Media E-Book Lending Takes Off New Online Clubs That Let Readers Share Have Drawbacks but Worry Publishers By Stu Woo . . . In the past few months,...
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How people find books
I can’t tell you how many times a faculty member has sent me a reference from Amazon asking if we could get a certain book. Often we already have the book in our collection, but the go-to source for...
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