Looking for new books to add to your summer reading list? You probably already know to check sources like Goodreads and the New York Times book reviews, but that’s not always enough. Here are a few of my favorite non-obvious sources for online book recommendations.
This free, twice-weekly email newsletter from book trade publication Shelf Awareness launched in 2011 and is still one of my favorite places to learn about new books. The newsletter comes out on Tuesdays and Fridays (or you can read it online) and in each issue, independent booksellers and reviewers recommend 25 books that have just hit stores. While some bestsellers from big authors are included, plenty of books from small presses and debut authors are also included, making this a good place to learn about books you probably wouldn’t have heard of otherwise.
Bookateria, which launched…
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The link below is to an article that considers an end to books and bookstores.
For more visit:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2013/08/an-end-of-books.html
The link below is to an article with a gif gallery concerning problems that book lovers often have.
For more visit:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/harpercollins/17-problems-only-book-lovers-will-understand-9npd
The link below is to an article reporting on yet another Spotify for ebooks – this time in the Netherlands.
For more visit:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/08/11/new-spotify-for-ebooks-to-launch-soon-in-the-netherlands/
The link below is to an article that looks at creating ebooks through Open Source tools.
For more visit:
http://opensource.com/life/13/8/how-create-ebook-open-source-way
The link below is to an article that looks at the pros and cons of reading ebooks.
For more visit:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2013/aug/07/1
The link below is to an article that looks at the reasons people keep books.
For more visit:
http://bookriot.com/2013/08/12/why-keep-books/
As expected, Apple(s AAPL) has expressed its strong disagreement with the federal government’s proposed remedies in the ebook pricing case, which the government outlined in a court filing released Friday morning.
In July, a federal judge found Apple guilty of conspiring with publishers to fix ebook prices.
Apple’s full court filing is embedded below and is available here as a PDF. Apple calls the proposed injunction “a draconian and punitive intrusion into Apple’s business, wildly out of proportion to any adjudicated wrongdoing or potential harm,” and claimed it is “a sweeping and unprecedented injunction as a tool to empower the Government to regulate Apple’s businesses and potentially affect Apple’s business relationships with thousands of partners across several markets.”
The government’s injunction seemingly forces Apple to abandon its in-app purchasing restrictions, at least for digital bookstores, by “allowing Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other ebook app providers to offer a simple…
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The Justice Department is calling on a federal judge to force Apple(s aapl) to allow competitors in the ebook market to provide prices and links to their e-bookstores within apps on Apple’s devices, a move that is likely to anger the iPhone maker and increase the stakes in an anti-trust investigation that has already produced a damning judgment against Apple in early July.
In a press release and court filing on Friday, the government set out a series of proposals to fix what it says are Apple’s “brazen” efforts to orchestrate price-fixing among major publishers.
The remedies would come in the form of a final judgment to be entered in a high-profile trial between Apple and the Justice Department that concluded in July when U.S. District Judge Denise Cote ruled that Apple had been the ringleader in a conspiracy with five publishers to increase prices and wrest control of the…
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