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Free ebooks correlated with increased print-book sales

A new study from two academics at BYU tracking the sales of printed books following free ebook releases found that generally, a free ebook release is correlated with increased sales. Interestingly, the exception is for a group of ebooks that were rele [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Work expands to the time allowed

Nowadays Parkinson’s law is usually condensed to saying work expands to the time allowed. It is applied to individuals as well as a burgeoning bureaucracies. Parkinson discusses this interpretation in his opening paragraph but then limits his attent [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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ReleaseQ - Organizes upcoming releases of movies and other media

Track your favorite upcoming releases: movies, books, music, and video games. Gives you a way to organize the overwhelming amount of information that is out there in a way that is relevant to you. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Balloon Boy's Dad's racist driving book from 1994

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In a chapter about the types of drivers to avoid, he refers to one group as "Jam'in Bro in His Cadillac," another as "Towelheads" and another as "Orientals." And the book is littered with photos with Heene dressed up as people from the various groups [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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TweetBookz: Would you turn 200 tweets into a book?

For $20 (softback) or $30 (hardback), a 5.5×8.5-inch 200 page book can be printed in one of four customisable designs in either English, Spanish, French or Hebrew.Would you put 200 of your tweets in a book? Would you give it as a gift to someone else [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Al Roker's new book: This time, the TV weatherman did it

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The Morning Show Murders: A Novel (Delacorte, 320 pp., $26), on sale Tuesday, is the first in a planned series of murder mysteries from America's most famous cloud-watcher. "They'll all be (set) at a morning show," Roker says as he chats in his cub [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Bloody Bookmark Makes Your Books Bleed

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Each of these sets of three bookmarks (black, white and red) is custom made so every one is an original. In a few cases it might just seem you spilled something on your book but the blood one in particular makes it seem as if your favorite volumes hav [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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The Global Anti-Trust Battle Over Google's Library - TIME

Is Google doing the world a service by digitizing the world's libraries, or are they building an empire which will exclude any and all competition? Will this effort promote freedom or tyranny? [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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The Amazing Staircase

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On Monday, we visited Veronika and Sebastian's rental apartment, with its amazing book-lined staircase. Here's what the architect said about how he came up with this stylish space-saving solution. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Publisher: $9.99 eBooks Will Kill Hardcover Books

Arnaud Nourry, the CEO of the world's second largest book publisher, Hachette Livre, says that the current pricing trends for eBooks may soon kill the hardcover book as we know it. In an interview with the Financial Times, Nourry says that he worries  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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World’s Shortest Books. Top 25 Shortest Books

Things I wouldn’t do for Money, by Dennis Rodman. Human Rights Advances in China. The Differences Between Reality and Dilbert. The Book of Virtue, by Bill Clinton. etc... [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Twitter meme: Failed children's book titles

There are many bad Twitter "memes," or subject themes that spread quickly through the microblogging service. But Wednesday saw a pretty clever one, failed children's book titles (#failedchildrensbooktitles), inspiring thousands of Twitter users to ima [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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