Amazon is on the move to ensure that the Kindle ebook format continues to improve with a move on the quality of ebooks that are offered for sale in the Kindle store. The link below is to an article that reports on the latest move by Amazon to improve ebooks for sale in the Kindle store.
For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/content-reporting-of-poorly-formatted-e-books-some-welcome-first-steps-from-amazon/
The link below is to an audio clip and article that considers how ebooks will change both reading and writing.
For more visit:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122026529
The link below is to a short audio clip and article praising ebooks.
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http://www.npr.org/2012/03/08/148246582/in-praise-of-e-books
The link below is to a site that offers a searchable version of Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, online.
For more visit:
http://www.mobydickthewhale.com/
The link below is to an interesting article on the book treasures that are on the digital backlist – somewhere.
For more visit:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/14/ebooks-backlist-titles-bloomsbury-reader
The link below is to an article that looks at the relationship between bad books and reading.
For more visit:
http://therumpus.net/2012/10/on-the-comfort-of-bad-books/
A lot has been said about Google and its book scanning projects. In one case Google has won a case for scanning books as a search project. Will this also prove useful in their case for scanning books for the Google Books project?
For more visit the article linked to below:
http://gigaom.com/2012/10/11/why-google-is-right-and-the-authors-guild-is-wrong-on-book-scanning/
The link below is to an article and infographic that looks at the growth of ebook reading.
For more visit:
http://mashable.com/2012/09/19/e-reader-infographic/
The link below is to an article that considers the future of libraries in the digital age.
For more visit:
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/04/135117829/the-future-of-libraries-in-the-e-book-age
The link below is to an article on ebooks, which I have posted in the interest of fairness. It’s more along the lines of an anti-ebook article.
For more visit:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122822760
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