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National Library of Norway Digitizing All Books Published in Norway


The link below is to an article that reports on Norway’s national library and its attempt to digitalize every book published in that country.

For more visit:
http://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/national-library-of-norway-digitizing-all-books-published-in-norway

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Cheap Ebook Reading


The link below is to an article that takes a look at the art of cheap ebook reading.

For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-secret-to-ereading-on-the-cheap/

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Confessions of a Failed Book Fanatic and an Ebook Fanatic


The links below are to two separate articles dealing with book fanatics of both the traditional form and the digital form.

For more visit:
http://bookriot.com/2013/12/11/dont-care-dogear-pages-confessions-failed-book-fanatic/
http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/confessions-of-an-ebook-fanatic/

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Cli-fi


The link below is to an article that takes a look at one of the newest ‘branches’ of literature – cli-fi.

For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/cli-fi/how-and-why-sci-fi-gave-birth-to-cli-fi/

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Jeff Bezos’ big 60 Minutes reveal: Delivery drones and (get this) private cloud


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Most of the Twitter response to Amazon(s amzn) CEO Jeff Bezos’ star turn on 60 Minutes focused on Amazon’s plans to offer drone delivery of small packages in the not-too-far-off-but-unspecified future.

Bezos showed off the small helicopter like devices, actually octocopters, to the always credulous Charlie Rose and no doubt they are cool — although you have to wonder what could possibly go wrong. This meaty tidbit reaffirms what Gigaom’s Signe Brewster reported earlier, that consumer drones are coming and nothing screams “consumer” like Amazon’s retail services.

Still, the biggest surprise for me came when Bezos, unprompted, referred to the planned cloud that Amazon Web Services is building for the CIA as a private cloud. He didn’t even stumble on the word. Funny, since at AWS Re:invent last month, top AWS execs Andy Jassy and Adam Selipsky went to great pains to not characterize that installment as a private cloud. That’s…

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Culling Books


The link below is to an article that considers the culling of books – where to start? Indeed, can you start?

For more visit:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/nov/29/getting-rid-of-old-books

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Reading for Pleasure


The link below is to an article that takes a look at reading for pleasure.

For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/reading-2/the-neil-gaiman-reading-agency-lecture-reading-for-pleasure-is-one-of-the-most-important-things-one-can-do/

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The Greatest Monsters in Children’s Literature


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United Kingdom: Book Publishing Crisis Leads to Closures


The link below is to an article that reports on the closure of some 98 book publishers in the United Kingdom in the last 12 months.

For more visit:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/04/ebooks-discounts-98-publishers-closure

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12 Must-Read Collections of Famous Authors’ Letters