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Mark Zuckerberg has made reading books his 2015 challenge


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Scribd Raises $22M For Its Subscription E-Book Service


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Encourage Kids to Read This Holiday Season


The link below is to an article that looks at how you can encourage your kids to read during the holiday break.

For more visit:
http://theconversation.com/preventing-your-kids-summer-reading-slide-34361

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Ebooks in 2015: Dull new world


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Ebooks are feeling a bit hungover heading into the new year. The 50 Shades of Grey exuberance of 2011 and 2012 feels long ago. The first seemingly viable ebook subscription services launched at the end of 2013 (Scribd, Oyster) and Amazon launched its own ebook subscription service, Kindle Unlimited, mid-2014.

The main difference between Kindle Unlimited and Scribd and Oyster — all of which cost around $10 a month — is that Kindle Unlimited has way fewer books that people have heard of. That’s because Scribd and Oyster have been able to attract big-5 publishers (HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, likely soon Macmillan) that hope to shake Amazon’s dominance in the ebook market, so they see no reason to make their books available on Kindle Unlimited.

Kindle Unlimited (KU), meanwhile, is attracting a bunch of negative press coverage as indie authors become disillusioned by it. The general bad feeling has…

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Re-reading Books/Ebooks


The link below is to an article that takes a look at re-reading books/ebooks.

For more visit:
http://www.bustle.com/articles/50770-11-joys-of-re-reading-books-because-starting-over-at-page-1-is-a-feeling-you-cant

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Retaining Read Information from Books


The link below is to an article that takes a look at how to retain information you have read from books and articles.

For more visit:
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/12/how-to-better-retain-information-from-books-articles-and-more/

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Writing in Books


The links below are to articles that look at writing in books.

For more visit:
http://bookriot.com/2014/12/16/why-write-in-books-2015-marginalia/
http://www.teleread.com/reading-2/write-books/

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Everything J.K. Rowling Revealed About Harry Potter in 2014


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Ebook Subscription Services


The link below is to an article that considers the immediate future of ebook subscription services.

For more visit:
http://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/will-subscription-e-book-sites-continue-to-be-viable-in-2015

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Ebook Readers in 2014


The link below is to an article that takes a look at ebook readers in 2014.

For more visit:
http://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/the-e-reader-industry-year-in-review-2014