Tag: digital
member name: Chris Steib
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May 05, 2008 11:21 PM EDT --
In case you haven't been to Amazon.com over the past few days, or if you were not among the dozens of viewers to watch Martha Stewart this afternoon, the world's leading online super-mega-retailer . . .
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May 20, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
How many of the books on your shelves have you read? If you're at all like me, that answer is somewhere between "not many" and "I dunno." And like other self-proclaimed literary . . .
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June 23, 2008 05:11 PM EDT --
Let's face it: as literary enthusiasts, it's hard to sneak in a few pages during work without running the risk of looking like a total slacker. And unless your favorite pasttime involves writing . . .
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January 13, 2009 02:04 PM EST --
Blatant copyright infringement aside, I'm digging the efforts of this blogger at "Golden Gems" to bring to digital life some classic little golden (and other vintage) books. See this . . .
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July 23, 2007 11:30 PM EDT --
So a few months back, I got my hands on a Sony Reader, compliments Gather's exceptional marketing team. I wrote a little review of the technology, concluding that it was a great concept, and a good . . .
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March 06, 2007 07:48 PM EST --
At the Association of American Publishers' general annual meeting today in midtown Manhattan, Microsoft Corporation's Associate General Counsel Thomas Rubin took the opportunity to trot out . . .
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August 12, 2009 12:07 PM EDT --
Necessity once again breeds invention, this time in California where Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a deal to stock up classrooms with free e-books in lieu of their costly and cumbersome paper . . .
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August 05, 2009 05:50 PM EDT --
NBA's site features a visual list of the 77 fiction-prize winners over the last six decades of handing out the Award. Sadly, I've only read five of them in their entirety, and snippets of others. . . .
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December 19, 2007 12:44 AM EST --
As you, savvy reader of electronically published text, are probably aware, Kindle -- Amazon's enviable e-book solution -- sold out the very first week it was available via the online retail . . .
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June 07, 2007 04:43 PM EDT --
I first read about this on Truemors (the new site by web entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki), and tracked the link to UK techie news site Register. Here's the story, in brief: in an attempt to make a point . . .
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March 11, 2008 12:23 PM EDT --
A few days ago, I sat down for a little GTalk with my old friend, fellow writer, and man of many digital hats, Adam Maxwell . In our interview, he shares his insight on such things as: the effect a new . . .
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June 24, 2008 04:09 PM EDT --
With beach season now upon us, publishers are undoubtedly in full-swing summer-reading mode, paying exorbitant sums of cash to stock B&N's front-list tables with disposable mass-market fodder. . . .
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October 29, 2009 04:42 PM EDT --
Barnes & Noble recently started showing off the Nook , their new eBook reader that merges an iPhone-like LCD touch screen and the eInk-powered monochrome reader page. Last week, AOL's tech blog, . . .
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May 27, 2009 03:47 PM EDT --
Here's a quick one for you: CollegeHumor.com takes a shot at the de-evolution of reading with this faux-mercial for the next-generation digital e-reader. Featuring "an exciting new visual . . .
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August 03, 2009 05:33 PM EDT --
Feeling guilty about being an unproductive scribe? Enjoy your next coffee break(s) with this great list of 100+ Lit-Twitterers that will remind you that even the likes of Paulo Coelho get distracted . . .
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May 28, 2009 12:25 PM EDT --
Anyone who has ever participated in a book club -- and especially those who failed to read the book -- will find this all-too familiar. Funny or Die (the video-comedy site from Will Ferrell , et al) . . .
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May 18, 2009 04:47 PM EDT --
It can be argued that the web has done many things for literature, but one of my favorites is how the digital era has lowered the barrier of entry for conversation around books. Amazon, Shelfari, . . .
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May 21, 2009 02:50 PM EDT --
I stumbled on this self-publishing company called Lulu today (I was actually looking for LaLa.com ), and was impressed with the quality and breadth of offerings on the site. With more than a dozen . . .
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January 28, 2009 07:39 PM EST --
So let's say you're an author: you've written the book, gone through the agent-and-editor process, found distribution, and actually saw your book in print and for sale online. Now you need . . .
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July 28, 2009 11:31 AM EDT --
In an overdue attempt to attract more tech-wielding squatters, Barnes & Noble today announced a deal with AT&T to pump free wi-fi into its 777 locations. According to CEO Steve Riggio, . . .
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