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Amazon monetizes fanfic

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Michael Sauers

The company’s today announced Kindle Worlds, a new publishing platform that promises to pay writers royalties for stories inspired by established works. Naturally, the original…

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DOJ: Steve Jobs E-Mails Show That Apple Engaged In E-Book Price-Fixing

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Both the publishers and Apple have denied any collusion, but a newly uncovered e-mail from late Apple co-founder and turtlenecked figurehead Steve Jobs to James…

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Color eInk Kindle?

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Color Kindle suddenly seems a lot more likely. Nate at The Digital Reader reports on Amazon buying Liquavista, maker of Color eInk and potentially Color…

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Straight Up Chess

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Michael Sauers
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Amazon’s book city #1, Alexandria, VA, may cut library hours: Time for a digital-era national endowment to help ease U.S. libraries’ financial woes?

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Worse, Alexandria City Manager Rashad Young has proposed a $93,454 cut in the library personnel budget despite the harm this could do to working people reliant on libraries to advance themselves through…

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