The Digital Reader

Here are a few stories to read this morning.

• 13 Lessons from Killing Our College Daily Paper and Pushing Digital (Mediashift | PBS)
• Adam Savage On Why Copyright And Trademark Holders Need To Get Over Their Obsession With ‘Control’ (Techdirt)
• Amazon: victim or aggressor? Issue will frame Apple ebook trial (paidContent)
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Here are a few stories to read this morning.

• Are E-Book Sales Declining in Canada? (TeleRead)
• Artkive Turns Your Kids’ Artwork (And More) Into Printed Books (TechCrunch)
• Examples of book love gone wrong (eBookFriendly)
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Here are a few stories to read this morning.

• Awesome Bookish Lamps (BookRiot)
• Brow.si wants to make mobile websites behave like native apps (GigaOm)
• Burying journalists under an avalanche of secrecy (Magellan Media Partners)
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Here are a few stories to read this morning.

• Amazon Fights to Keep Secrets in E-book Trial (PW)
• Buying Tumblr Will Leave Yahoo With The Same Old Identity Crisis (ReadWrite)
• Califa Launches Enki, a Lending Platform for Direct Ebook Distribution (The Digital Shift)
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Here are a few stories to read this morning.

• 5 Reasons Libraries Will Fail – Published in 1864 (Eduhacker)
• AP’s Attempt At DRM’ing The News Shuts Down (Techdirt)
• Google Play for Education Versus… (Hack Education)
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Here are a few stories to read this morning.
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Here are a few stories to read this morning.

• Amazon Launches Their Own Currency, But You Can’t Buy Books With It (LitReactor)
• Don’t Torture Yourself, i.e. Don’t Read Reviews (Paige Weaver)
• Famous Authors’ Handwritten Outlines for Great Works of Literature (Flavorwire)
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Here are a few stories to read this morning.

• Adventures in Neurohumanities (The Nation)
• Android, Windows and Linux coexist peacefully on this 11.6-inch tablet (PhoneArena)
• German online publishers’ anti-adblock campaign backfires (paidContent)
• Getting pecked to death:Are critique groups worth it? (The Kill Zone)
• Linking to external video (and audio) in EPUB3 (Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis)
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Here are a few stories to read this morning.

I’m going to try something new today. Some of the links will have comments. I have seen this on other links posts and I decided to try it for myself. The idea is in flux so feedback would be welcomed.

• The curious tale of the stolen books (BBC News)
• Flipboard updates iOS app with new profile pages, SMS sharing and ‘Friends’ category (The Next Web)
• How to Use Books (by ~mellapants on deviantART)
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Here are a few stories to read this morning.

• Cryptomnesia makes us accidental plagiarists (io9)
• Do Readers Judge Female Characters More Harshly Than Male Characters? – Maria Konnikova (The Atlantic)
• Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown (Telegraph)
• Goodbye articles, hello updates: Flexible publishing works better online (Leon Paternoster)
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