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Friday Midday Links: Book Scanning for $1 and Brand Loyalty

Friday Midday Links: Book Scanning for $1 and Brand Loyalty

Limecello has been hosting a charity drive on her blog and it ends this Sunday.  Various authors have committed to donating money to the famine relief effort in exchange for comments.  You can read more about it here. ***** Sarah and I are conducting a reader panel at RT in 2012. It’s very cool because the [...]

Book Scanning for Libraries Becoming Hot News

As I was waiting for a meeting yesterday, I saw CNN reporting on the issue of libraries and scanning. Some well known research libraries are turning down Microsoft and Google’s offers to scan the contents of the libraries for free. Of course, nothing is really free, and the libraries do not want to bind themselves [...]

REVIEW:  Don’t Let Fear of Piracy Rob You of Profits

REVIEW: Don’t Let Fear of Piracy Rob You of Profits

JK Rowling is famously known amonst online book circles as the highest profile author to refuse to allow digitization of her books. This has not deterred individuals from offering a home brew ebook version of every title in the Harry Potter series. In fact, Book 6 was released at midnight and online reports told of [...]