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Friday News:3D Gun made;Teenage lady coder solves everyone’s Twitter problems; MS may want to buy Nook Media

Friday News:3D Gun made;Teenage lady coder solves everyone’s Twitter problems; MS may want to buy Nook Media

BBC News – Downloads for 3D-printed Liberator gun reach 100,000 – So last year I started writing about 3D printing and in October, someone posited that guns would soon be built with a push of a button and how difficult that would be to police.  BBC News Some of you thought this was so far(…)

Wednesday News: Bodyform reveals the truth about periods; MS Surface pricing and ship date revealed; DMCA takedown notice gone awry; Ancient prosthetics

Wednesday News: Bodyform reveals the truth about periods; MS Surface pricing and ship date revealed; DMCA takedown notice gone awry; Ancient prosthetics

This May Be The Best Response To A Facebook Rant — Period. – An internet troll or comedian or someone named Richard Neill posted a facebook rant about how a Maxipad company lied to him in commercials about a woman’s joyous adventuresome spirit that she adopted during her period. The company created possibly the best(…)

Tuesday News: B&N to launch in the UK in October; Penguin and Harlequin Australia launches digital first lines; The next generation wristwatch

Tuesday News: B&N to launch in the UK in October; Penguin and Harlequin Australia launches digital first lines; The next generation wristwatch

Barnes & Noble to launch in the UK in October – Barnes & Noble will launch http://nook.co.uk in Mid-October and will announce partnerships with “leading UK retailers” shortly. “The first products to be available when the company begins offering its products in the UK in mid-October include Barnes & Noble’s line of critically acclaimed E(…)

Tuesday Midday Links Roundup: Microsoft unveils a beautiful new tablet with no ship date or price

Tuesday Midday Links Roundup: Microsoft unveils a beautiful new tablet with no ship date or price

Microsoft Microsoft held a press event wherein they announced their new tablet called Microsoft Surface. It’s a beautiful, lust worthy device. The only problem? No price or ship date. Nonetheless, here are some specs. The basic design includes an integrated kickstand, two covers with integrated keyboards, and a touchscreen that recognizes and differentiates between finger(…)

Monday Midday News: BN & Microsoft’s Nook Deal. Is this the end of B&N?

Monday Midday News: BN & Microsoft’s Nook Deal. Is this the end of B&N?

On Saturday, I received this email from a reader. I have her permission to repost it. I find it ironic that I am posting this today when the news in the book world is replete with details about Barnes & Noble’s new deal with Microsoft. Jane, I noted some posts about B&N & its possible(…)

Wednesday  Midday Links:  Topless Female Duelists

Wednesday Midday Links: Topless Female Duelists

HarperCollins total year-end results are unclear given that parent company news Corp. did not break out  the division in the year-end report. However, the children’s division improved and e-book sales accounted for approximately 12% of all business in the US last year.  Source: PW **** Author Dorothea Benton Frank gave an interview to the Columbus(…)

Saturday Midday News:  Red Rose Publishing Threatens Legal Action

Saturday Midday News: Red Rose Publishing Threatens Legal Action

On Friday, I received a phone call from a lawyer in Utica, New York who represents Red Rose Publishing. RRP is claiming that I defamed them in this post here wherein I summarized the reported complaints of RRP authors and posted the president and owner’s email regarding her displeasure with RRP authors. The lawyer wanted(…)

Wednesday Midday Links Roundup:

In non shocking news, while first day sales of the Kindle version of The Lost Symbol were strong, digital sales represents only about 5% of the 2 million copies sold so far which was in line with what I thought last week: Over time, obviously, the digital version cannot outsell the print version because of(…)

Microsoft Discontinues Live Search Program

Microsoft scanned in, digitized, and indexed 750,000 books and 80 million scholarly articles for its “Live Search” program which is similar to Google Booksearch. Microsoft decided to terminate the program and provide the digital copies of books scanned to the publishers. Microsoft will now rely on crawling the content repositories of other sites (I wonder(…)

MSN Book Search Launched

The Microsoft answer to Google’s book indexing program has been launched in a beta form (meaning its unfinished and may have bugs). Via Publisher’s Weekly. At this time, only public domain works are included but Microsoft hopes to partner with publishers. Send to Kindle