Will the book/ebook industry benefit from the current price war in the book industry? Will the current benefits to book buyers result in overall losses for book buyers in the long run? These are questions that are worth asking. The link below is to an article that reports on the price war within the book industry.
For more visit:
http://www.futurebook.net/content/price-war-could-kill-industry-and-indeed-so-could-industry
The link below is to an article that features five DIY book art projects. Book art is something that can be done with rubbish books, but I certainly wouldn’t be destroying valuable books for it.
For more visit:
http://bookriot.com/2012/10/05/get-your-craft-on-5-diy-projects-with-old-books/
The link below is to an article that looks at alternative uses for books.
For more visit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leah-price/post_3964_b_1940486.html
There are a number of debates currently ongoing in the book industry – the ebook pricing war, blogging and book reviews, digitalisation of books, etc. A reasonably new area of debate has been that of ebook lending. The link below is to an article that looks at the ebook lending debate.
For more visit:
http://blog.bookbaby.com/2012/09/why-is-ebook-lending-under-siege/
The link below is to an article that looks at banning books and concludes that it is censorship – really?
For more visit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-friedman/banned-books-week_b_1929888.html
In one of my other Blogs I have an occasional post that I call ‘Tips for Life,’ which means the post is basically a daily life hack type of post which covers something for making life easier. So in this Blog I’m starting an occasional post called ‘Tips for Tech,’ which will basically be a post aimed at making daily practical life a little easier in the area of technology – specifically in the area of books and reading.
Today’s ‘Tips for Tech’ post, the link below is to an article which provides a fairly simple way to save a few dollars here and there to buy what you need – Ebook Reader, a few ebooks, etc.
For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/joanna/budgeting-for-tech-a-painless-approach/
The link below is to an article that considers both amateur and professional book reviewers – are the professionals are better choice?
For more visit:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2012/oct/01/professional-book-reviewers-better-amateurs
The link below is to an article which contains an interactive infographic. The infographic looks at the top 10 banned or challenged books in the USA for 2012 and the reasons why.
For more visit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/30/banned-books-week-top-10-_n_1926829.html
The link below is to an interesting article about the books being read on board the Titanic.
For more visit:
http://bookriot.com/2012/09/29/the-book-riot-50-16-what-books-were-people-reading-on-the-titanic/
The link below is to another article considering the debate surrounding book bloggers and literary criticism.
For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/books/book-bloggers-are-they-killing-lit-criticism-or-saving-it/
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