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Month: November 2009

  • Electronic Publishing

Wikipedia's growing pains

Posted on Nov 30, 2009Feb 1, 2022

Wikipedia is losing editors faster than it recruits them, partly because of the hostile and exhausting environment in which the site's content is crafted.

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  • Fiction

Unintended posthumous publications

Posted on Nov 27, 2009Feb 1, 2022

Dmitri Nabokov had published his father Vladimir Nabokov's unfinished novel, 'The Original of Laura', but lets readers compare it to the author's intentions.

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  • Electronic Publishing

The present and future of e-readers

Posted on Nov 25, 2009Feb 1, 2022

Despite demand for the Nook and firmware updates for the Kindle, we're still left to wonder if there's a future for e-books.

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  • Children's Books
  • Electronic Publishing

Choose your own digital adventure

Posted on Nov 23, 2009Feb 1, 2022

Remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books? Now you can choose your own hyperlink as this series comes to the Amazon Kindle e-book reader.

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  • Electronic Publishing
  • Publishing

Book launch 2.0

Posted on Nov 20, 2009Feb 1, 2022

A modern book launch requires an online presence. What happens when an author dedicated solely to his craft has to handle such technological promotions?

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  • Electronic Publishing
  • Publishing

Why e-books don't need copyeditors

Posted on Nov 19, 2009Feb 1, 2022

With e-books, a book can be cheaply and easily updated even after publication, eliminating the need to get it right the first time.

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  • Electronic Publishing

No used e-books, for better or worse

Posted on Nov 17, 2009Feb 1, 2022

There is currently no market for used e-books. Does this benefit the publisher and hurt the consumer? Or is it lose-lose?

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  • Potpourri

Books on their way out of malls

Posted on Nov 9, 2009Feb 1, 2022

Borders has announced plans to close several Waldenbooks locations at malls nationwide. Why do they think mall shoppers don't buy books?

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