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Google’s Press
According to Anthony Grafton at the New Yorker, Google is in the process of passing yet another milestone in the digitizing and distribution of books: Google announced [on Sept. 17th, 2009] that they would allow On Demand Books to produce paperback … Continue reading
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Today’s Number: 168,178,719
That’s the number of book titles in the world (according to Google’s cataloging project). And Geoffrey Nunberg is worried about how the translation of these titles into an electronic data base is going to be handled and managed: Whether the Google … Continue reading
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The Kindle, George Orwell, and the Future of Censorship?
Electronic books just got more creepy. Earlier in the summer, Amazon.com unceremoniously removed (remotely) “unauthorized” copies of George Orwell’s 1984 from people’s Kindles. Amazon customers had purchased copies of the electronic book through the Amazon store, and they thought that … Continue reading
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Jeff Bezos’s Orwellian Treatment of George Orwell’s 1984
The potentially Orwellian implications of the Kindle here.
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Tagged 1984, Amazon, George Orwell, jeff bezos, kindle, Orwell, totalitarianism
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I.F. Stone, Kindle Mania, Joe the Plumber, Dollar Tattoo Art, and a French Poet Who Dreamed of Blogging: Today’s Five Curious Links
Commentary claims journalist I.F. Stone was a spy for Stalin from 1936-1938 . . . more The New York Times says big screen e-readers, such as the new larger version of the Kindle, might save the publishing industry, and transform the … Continue reading
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Josh Marshall on Kindlemania
Josh Marshall just read a book on his wife’s Kindle, and quickly perceived its implication for the old tree-based technology. Marshall thinks that the book is going down in the same way that the newspaper is going down. Timber!: I’ve always been an … Continue reading
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Tagged books, e ink, gutenburg, history, Josh Marshall, kindle, kindlemania, literature, newspapers, poetry, technology
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Slate Editor Jacob Weisberg: “The Kindle Will Change the World”
Slate editor Jacob Weisberg tries the Kindle and thinks it will mark a historic shift in print culture. Money quote: Like the Rocket e-book of 1999 (524 titles available!), it will surely draw chuckles a decade hence for its black-and-white … Continue reading
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The Kindle and No-Handed Reading
Steven Berlin Johnson just got his first Kindle, and here’s something that he especially likes about it: When he was on John Stewart, Jeff Bezos mentioned that the Kindle was great for one-handed reading, which got a salacious chuckle from … Continue reading
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Digital Paper is Coming Next Year (January, 2010). Will It Kill the Kindle?
Techno-prophet, Ray Kuzweil, a few years back, said this would come. Here’s a demonstration of the technology: And read a review of the product here.
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Prometheus Unbound 