Feb 21 2013
DRM Lawsuit Filed By Independent Bookstores Against Amazon, ‘Big Six’ Publishers – I think we all know that I am not a fan of DRM. I have also argued repeatedly that getting rid of DRM would reduce Amazon’s strangehold over readers and allow other bookstores to compete more readily with Amazon. DRM is a huge(…)
Feb 20 2013
‘Knitting Behind Bars’ Helps Inmates Cope with Prison Life – Lynn Zwerling and Sheila Rovelstad started a knitting program for prisons, but not female prisons. Instead, the Knitting Behind Bars program has been introduced to the male inmates and according to this report, it is finding some success. Knitting for these inmates is introducing a(…)
Feb 19 2013
‘Die Hard’ Box Office Solid Over Presidents Day Weekend; ‘Beautiful Creatures’ Bombs – “Making a weak debut at No. 6 was the Warner Bros. teen fantasy “Beautiful Creatures,” which pulled in $7.5 million for the weekend and $10 million since opening Thursday. The movie is based on the first in the best-selling series about a(…)
Feb 18 2013
Rumor: Google Planning to Open Retail Stores? – Google is supposedly going to be opening retail store to sell its tablets, phones and upcoming Google Glasses. I’d be surprised if Google didn’t opt for partnerships with Target and Best Buy for an in-store boutique. If Google does launch a physical brick and mortar retail experience,(…)
Feb 15 2013
Barnes & Noble warns investors to expect more bad Nook news – It is possible that B&N’s transformation from book store to something completely different will happen before the end of 2013. B&N has delayed giving its quarterly fiscal reports until February 28. B&N has gone on to warn investors that the losses in 2013(…)
Feb 14 2013
Which city ‘s romance novels the most??? – uStarNovels, a personalized romance novel service of which I have never heard, claims that Atlanta is the city who has bought the most uStarNovels. The company has compiled the list by mining information made when a buyer purchases one of their books. Based on my Google statistics(…)
Feb 13 2013
This summer, I will marry the girl of my dreams in a library. Here is our Save-The-Date. – This redditor posted a picture of his Save the Date wedding announcement. Adorbs, right? Maker’s Mark waters down its bourbon to meet rising demand – I don’t like this and I don’t even drink bourbon. Maker’s Mark(…)
Feb 12 2013
William Shatner calls out Reddit for racism and hate mongering – Reddit is a site that is full of the cutest cat and dog pictures, viral videos at their inception, and interesting question and answer sessions with famous people. Bill Gates was on the site yesterday during an Ask Me Anything where he admitted a(…)
Feb 11 2013
A Message from John Sargent – On Friday, DOJ filed papers indicating that the last publisher, Macmillan, had agreed to settle the price fixing suit. John Sargent had said in his previous letter to “Authors, Illustrators and Agents” (no readers in Sargent’s equation) that he wasn’t going to settle because he felt that Macmillan did(…)
Feb 8 2013
Higher E-book Sales Lead to Lower Revenues at Hachette Book Group – Bring back the printed book says one commenter after reading that Hachette’s revenue is decreasing due to greater sales in ebooks over print books. Net sales from digital products in 2012 – e-books plus downloadable audio – totaled 26% of overall HBG revenue(…)
Feb 7 2013
Amazon patents resale marketplace for used e-books, songs and other digital goods – ReDigi set up a secondary marketplace for digital music. Capital Records, amongst others, have sued ReDigi for copyright infringement. Both parties made arguments to the court which will largely dispose of the case back in October. As of yesterday, no decision has(…)
Feb 6 2013
B&N Adds New Payment Options to Nook Store (MS Accounts) No New App Required – According to Nate, the Digital Reader, B&N is allowing people to use their Microsoft account to pay for ebooks instead of requiring a credit card attached to the B&N account. I’m not sure whether B&N scrapes the credit card information(…)
Feb 5 2013
Tech, telecom giants take sides as FCC proposes large public WiFi networks – I want this to happen. The Washington Post “The federal government wants to create super WiFi networks across the nation, so powerful and broad in reach that consumers could use them to make calls or surf the Internet without paying a cellphone(…)
Feb 4 2013
adblitz Did you miss a SuperBowl commercial? Adblitz compiled them all in this channel. Don’t worry, though, they were as sexist as ever. YouTube Ad Blitz Channel Possibly the best ad, however, was the Oreo twitter response. The power went out in the SuperDome in New Orleans due to a power surge or something (the(…)
Feb 1 2013
Doctoral Dissertation – Um, what the ever loving heck is this? A doctoral student, working on her dissertation for Capella University’s Department of Psychology wants to mine the psyche of RWA members for a “happiness project.” The title of her dissertation? “A grounded theory study of the female members of an enabling institution: Romance Writers(…)
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