The Digital Reader

Here are a few stories worth reading this morning. There’s even an iPad story in there, too.

• Google eBooks Now ‘Books On Google Play’, With Big Sales (PaidContent)

• Hack Your Kindle Touch to Stand On End Without Powering Off (LifeHacker)

• How paywalls affect social media efforts at 5 news sites (Poynter)

• iPad event: Scoopertino live blog transcript (Scoopertino)

• Jumptap: Kindle Fire now grabs 1/3 of tablet traffic (GigaOm)

• Picturebook Lessons: The Art of Letting Readers Fill In the Blanks (A New Kind of Book)

• Should Libraries Get Out of the eBook Business? (Librarian by Day)

• When Readability harms readability (Personal Weblog of Joe Clark)