The link below is to an article on how one journalist will not read ebooks to her kids. What do you think? Please offer your thoughts via our poll.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cate-pane/why-i-dont-read-digital-books-to-my-kids_b_4179144.html
The link below is to an article that considers reasons for writing in books.
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http://www.patheos.com/blogs/joeljmiller/2013/11/write-in-your-books/
The link below is to an article that looks at the ‘real issue’ with ebooks – do you agree? Please leave your thoughts in the comments here.
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http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/10/how-ebook-pricing-hurts-us-in-more-ways-than-you-think/
The U.K. media is in an uproar over rape and incest porn ebooks that popped up in searches on sites like Amazon (s AMZN) and Kobo. In response, WHSmith took down its entire site over the weekend, and on Tuesday Kobo — which powers ebook sales through WHSmith’s site — announced that it is pulling all self-published books from its own U.K. website while it addresses the problem.
The ebooks in question have titles like Daddy Daughter Sex Stories and Daddy’s Birthday Gang Bang.
The saga started last week, when U.K. tech site The Kernel published a post entitled “How Amazon Cashes In on Kindle Filth.” Various U.K. newspapers, including the Daily Mail and Guardian, picked up the story. In the following days, The Kernel has continued to pump out posts on the issue, with titles like “An epidemic of filth” and the link bait-y “The…
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The link below is to a brief article concerned with how to digitise your own books.
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http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/13/digitise-books-digitisemybooks-diybookscanner
The link below is to an article reporting on the number of books being published in Iceland.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24399599
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