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Hugh Howey takes on the Author’s Guild

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Michael Sauers

I’ve not yet read any of Hugh Howey’s work but I’ve heard enough good things about his novels that I recently ordered these. This recent…

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Adobe Doubles Down on DRM in Digital Editions 3.0

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Michael Sauers

Adobe has just pushed out new Digital Rights Management encryption system for their entire line of publishing products. This was designed to make changes to…

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Read 700 Free eBooks Made Available by the University of California Press

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Michael Sauers

The University of California Press e-books collection holds books published by UCP (and a select few printed by other academic presses) between 1982-2004. The general public currently…

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Books go online for free in Norway

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Michael Sauers

More than 135,000 books still in copyright are going online for free in Norway after an innovative scheme by the National Library ensured that publishers…

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Simon & Schuster Demands Libraries Start Selling eBooks

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Michael Sauers

Part of the new deal with Overdrive is to make libraries offer a Buy it Now button on their online websites. When patrons visit the…

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Penguin eBooks are now downloadable for Kindle without USB

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Michael Sauers

Woot! …the USB side-loading requirement for Penguin eBooks on Kindle devices has been lifted. Today, we are pleased to inform our partners and end-users that…

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2013: The Year in Reading (Crunching the numbers)

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Michael Sauers

So I started wondering how my 2013 numbers compared to my 2012 numbers and here’s what I came up with: 2013 books read count: 118%…

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2013: The Year in Reading

Posted on December 31, 2013December 31, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Total # of books read: 118 Total page count: 24,556 Fiction: 91 Non-Fiction: 27 Print: 67.75 eBooks: 30.25 Graphic Novels: 12 Audiobooks: 8 Male Authors:…

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Douglas Coupland: The Clock Strikes 13 in the Archive World

Posted on December 24, 2013 by Michael Sauers

For the archivist, it means that the paper they once collected – manuscripts for novels, notepads, UN speeches and what have you – no longer…

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New digital archives of interest

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Somehow I’ve been bookmarking a whole bunch of articles about new digital archives lately that I’ve decided to just dump them all into a single…

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