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Monday Round up Links: A New Kind of Book Tour

Cover Cafe nominations for 2010 are now open. If you want to nominate a cover for a book that has been published in 2010, please go to  http://www.covercafe.com and click on Nominate. The new 2010 nomination form is now available. All About Romance has launched its annual readers’ poll. Author Stephen Elliott wrote an editorial about(…)

Tuesday Midday Links:

I have to go to the dentist today for an aching tooth. Yes, my hardliving consisting of peanut m&ms and Mountain Dew is catching up with me. That’s some real news I know you all were dying to read. DNAML, a company with more consonants than sense, is selling a PDF to ePub converter. This(…)

Tuesday Midday Links Roundup: Boston Prep School Eliminates Its Library

Did you have a nice vacation?   I was almost completely untethered these past four days which was great while I was away. Unfortunately, the inbox doesn’t clear itself. Here is a piece of news that I missed.   According to a mobileread.com poster, Sony will replace all the LRX format books (books you bought at Sony(…)

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(…)

Weekly Tech Roundup

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(…)

Friday Late Nite Links of Apple

Everyone but everyone is laying off people: Google, Sony, Microsoft, Intel, Motorola, and on and on.   Almost 200,000 tech jobs lost since August 2008.   Everyone is laying off, that is except for Apple who posted a record profit of $1.6 billion  for the last quarter having sold    4.3M iPhones as well as a bunch of other Apple(…)

Scott Adams, Dilbert Creator, Predicts iPhone Will Kill Print Newspapers

Scott Adams, Dilbert Creator, Predicts iPhone Will Kill Print Newspapers

Scott Adams, the creator of the venerable office cartoon, Dilbert, believes that iPhone and devices like it (which he calls the iClones) will kill the print newspaper. If you can carry the internet in your pocket, what would you want with a print newspaper even with the new soy ink that isn’t supposed to rub(…)