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Booktype :: Make Free, Open Source eBooks

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eBook Study by Book Industry Study Group

Check out this summary of the Book Industry Study Group’s report on eBooks. Here are some things that jumped out to me: Kindle is, by far, the dominant device:   A study confirms what we’ve all sensed: Readers are embracing … Continue reading

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eBooks: Not Quite Ready for Prime Time in School Libaries?

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Yay, Penguin!

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MAME Presentation :: Librarians as Publishers and Aggregators: Seizing the eBook Opportunity

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BookRix: A Story in 15 Words

I’m a pretty rusty fiction writer, but when I got the email today that BookRix, a digital publishing site I played with earlier this year, had a contest ending today for stories that took no more than 15 words to … Continue reading

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Luisa’s Italian blog post about School Libraries eBook!

Grazie, Luisa, for posting this to your blog! Rough translation (via Google Translate and my Italian DNA): Fifty authors contributed to this publishing project that the effervescent Kristin Fontichiaro (University of Michigan), well known and appreciated in the ALA and IASL, made with Buffy Hamilton, of Creekview High School (Canton, GA): an ebook “crowdsourced”(made ​​at Smashwords), freely available online or downloadable, … Continue reading

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Donna in NZ blogs about the eBook

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Check out Diane viewing her eBook cover photo on her Kindle!

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Holy cow — 85 downloads in an hour!

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