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Aug 31 2009

Monday Midday Links: It Is All Gloom and Doom (today at least)

Disney bought Marvel Comics for $4 billion. Disney will now own the rights to over 5,000 Marvel characters including Spider Man, X-men, Ironman, and the like. One key element of copyright law that people tend to forgot is that the longer copyrights benefit corporations like Disney more than any one else, even the individual copyright(…)

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Aug 25 2009

Tuesday News Roundup: Sony & iRex Out With 3G Wireless Readers

Sony announced that along with the PRS 300 (the 5″ screen at $199) and the PRS 600 (the 6″ touchscreen at $299) it will release Sony Daily Edition at $399.   Sony Daily Edition comes equipped with 3G wireless capabilities, a 7″ touchscreen, and is powered by the ATT Network.   You can see pictures of the(…)

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Aug 22 2009

Weekend Links Round Up: Is Print Back?

Barnes and Noble’s retail sales have slipped 5% because of low retail traffic while the web sales are up a tiny fraction from 8.2 to 8.9%.   I’ve just scrambled to recover from one of my busiest weeks in a long time and I think that web sales are up because who has time for shopping(…)

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Aug 11 2009

News Round Up: Free Actually Works

Last week there was a source at TUAW that Apple was rejecting all ebook applications. I had some doubts about this as I couldn’t imagine well established apps like Stanza or the individual ebook apps from ScrollMotion getting the boot.   Can you imagine the teen uproar over the removal of the Twilight series? In any(…)

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Link Roundup: BN thinks Pub Domain Books Are Subject to Copyright & Other Nonsense

Jul 30 2009

Link Roundup: BN thinks Pub Domain Books Are Subject to Copyright & Other Nonsense

It’s International Blog Against Racism Week. Barnes and Noble is proclaiming it is giving away 6 free books when you download its special ebook reader on the iphone or laptop. The special ebook reader is merely a BN wrapped version of eReader. The six books are ones in the public domain and when one reader(…)

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Jul 22 2009

Barnes & Noble’s eBookstore Is Neither Sound Nor Fury

I had to write this post after reading all the headlines on Twitter about Barnes and Noble’s ebookstore presenting real competition for the Amazon Kindle.    It’s not and here’s why. First, BN’s ebookstore is simply that, a store. There is no device.   Kindle captured the burgeoning ebook crowd not because it simply provided books(…)

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Jul 21 2009

Link Round Up Tuesday

Borders Group Inc. is trying new things to revive its flagging sales.   The latest is Borders Ink, a department devoted to selling books and merchandise to teens.   By the end of August most of the Borders superstores should have this specialized department. At a time when book retailing is slumping, young-adult titles and graphic novels(…)

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Daily Links Round Up: Authors Losing Their Shit & FREE Kindle Books

Jun 29 2009

Daily Links Round Up: Authors Losing Their Shit & FREE Kindle Books

Authors Alice Hoffman and Alain de Botton compete for author douchebag of the day. Hoffman tweets the phone number and email address of the awful reviewer and de Botton essentially curses the career of the NYTBR critic. See more here. In better news, publishers are just giving away the farm on Kindle which is great(…)

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Weekly Tech Roundup

Apr 12 2009

Weekly Tech Roundup

TechCrunch is close to releasing its web device. It’s a $200 computing device that has no harddrive and about a 2 hour battery. It is designed to allow you to surf the web and access information from the cloud. I’m not convinced it is terribly useable but I could be wrong. [I]t is for reading(…)

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Mar 5 2009

Thursday eBook Tech News Round Up

I’ve been criminally negligent in not keeping up with the news in the past few weeks but real life intruded. We’ll have a similar black out at the end of the month here, but in the meantime, here’s some choice bits of ebook tech news: Barnes and Noble acquires Fictionwise for $15.7 million. Gaming industry(…)

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Mar 5 2009

Barnes and Noble Acquires Fictionwise for $15.7 Million

I have so many words swirling around in my head as a result of the news broke on the Teleread.org blog that BN acquired Fictionwise. My first thought was, good on the Pendergrast brothers who were pioneers in the ebook retailing field. Fictionwise has always been a big supporter of non DRM’ed ebooks and providing(…)

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Feb 4 2009

Wednesday Day Night Links of No Love

Stephen King laid the smackdown on Stephenie Meyer in an interview yesterday. “Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people… The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.” [Thanks Emmy] The comments to the above post have turned(…)

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Nov 4 2008

BN Expects Terrible Holiday Season

Barnes & Noble chairman sent a memo to all employees saying that "the retail environment the worst he has ever seen as a bookseller."  The outlook looks gloomy for chairman Riggio for this holiday season which he describes as "terrible" and expects "the trend to continue well into 2009, and perhaps beyond.” Wall Street Journal(…)

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Jun 17 2008

Should Amazon Go Brick and Mortar?

Mobile Read has a couple of articles on the new debate of whether Amazon, rather than Barnes and Noble, should acquire Borders. William Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management says aye (and Pershing has a 10% stake in Boders Group Inc) and Rich Aristotle Munarriz of the Motley Fool says nay. From a consumer standpoint,(…)

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May 22 2008

Barnes & Noble CEO Looks Into Ending Traditional Return Policy

Steve Riggio, CEO of Barnes and Noble, stated today during BN’s first quarter conference call that Barnes and Noble is open to alternative solutions to deal with unsold books. Currently mass markets are stripped and thrown away with the covers being sent back to the publisher for credit. I’m not sure how trade and hardcover(…)

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