Tag Archives: reader

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Why Are You A Reader?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uap9S38NY6M

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Penguin Hatches A Cloud Reader For Pelican Books

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The news about reader attention and the evolution of media isn’t all bad — there’s the “hill of Wow”

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Mathew Ingram's avatarGigaom

Sometimes it seems as though the future of online media is a fairly bleak one: an ocean of clickbait and shallow pageview-driven articles, all of them chasing the dwindling juice that social-network algorithms provide, with scattered chunks of longform journalism drifting aimlessly, unable to get the attention they deserve. But is that a realistic picture of where we are? Betaworks CEO John Borthwick says it isn’t — and says he has the data from services like Chartbeat and Instapaper to prove that things aren’t as bad as they seem.

As Borthwick notes in a post on Medium, the most recent debate on this topic flared up a couple of months ago, sparked by a post from Facebook product manager Mike Hudack that lamented the state of online media, and how much of the content that was being produced even by “serious” media outlets was shallow clickbait:

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Apps for a Better Reading Experience

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The link below is to an article that looks at 8 apps it claims will make you a better reader, however I don’t believe they will make you a better reader, but will enhance your reading.

For more visit:
http://mashable.com/2013/11/09/apps-for-readers/

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Article: Amazon Matchbook

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The link below is to an article that looks at Amazon Matchbook, which is yet another reason why Amazon continues to dominate the book/ebook market. The Amazon emphasis is on putting the ‘reader’ first and it is a strategy that works well for them.

For more visit:
http://www.futurebook.net/content/two-and-half-thoughts-amazons-matchbook

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Will the Digg Effect make a comeback?

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Om Malik's avatarGigaom

During the latter half of the naughties (2000s), Digg was one of the premier destinations on the web. If your story ended up on the front page of Digg, then you were rewarded by hundreds of thousands of page views, quite a bounty considering publishers big and small made (and still make money) for page-view based advertising. The traffic bump came to be known as the Digg effect (much like being Slashdotted.) Digg, obviously fell on hard times and it was just over a year ago, it was acquired by New York-based technology and media company, Betaworks.

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John Borthwick, chief executive of Betaworks, had a plan  — Digg still was a good brand and was an ideal vehicle for his vision of a social-data powered recommendation service and news reader. The early attempt at that social news reader, News.me, hadn’t really gone anywhere and they were ready to shut it…

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Infographic: What Kind Of Reader Are You?

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The link below is to an infographic that seeks to help you discover the type of reader you are.

For more visit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/22/kinds-of-reader_n_3635511.html

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Article: Who Controls Ebooks?

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The link below is to an article that looks at the question of ‘who controls ebooks?’ I’m sure a good number of people now know that the answer is not the reader who paid for it.

For more visit:
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/07/ideas-bank/how-amazon-kindled-the-bookburners-flames

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Digg’s RSS reader is arriving in beta next week on desktop and mobile

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Article: Reading Rules

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The link below is to an article that looks at one reader’s reading rules.

For more visit:
http://bookriot.com/2013/05/22/what-your-reading-rules-reveal-about-your-personality/