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Jonathan Franzen Is Wrong: Ebooks Are Good for Everyone
I love books, especially old ones. Recently I learned a simple dinner table trick from a 110-year-old magic book. It involves picking up a napkin with both hands and, without releasing either corner, tying the napkin into a knot. Good fun and likely unavailable anywhere but in this very old tome. That fact, though, does not make me love ebooks any less or think that they somehow are a better ...
Ebooks on the radio: 6 pm ET tonight | The Loom
I?ll be talking on Wisconsin Public Radio with host Ben Merens about ebooks and the future of publishing. I?ll be on for the hour from 5 pm to 6 pm CT (6-7 ET) You can listen live here.
Ebooks encourage authors to stare at their shoes instead of shoot for the stars
?We are all junkies now,? says Libby Fischer Hellmann of Amazon?s KDP Select program which allows Amazon Prime subscribers to borrow ebooks, paying their authors a share of a set pot of money each month. Her point is that, with this huge growth in free ebooks from Amazon, prices are being eroded as users come to expect everything for free.
Do E-Books Threaten Democracy?
eBooks are on trial once again. This time, they represent nothing short of an existential threat to democracy itself. In the prosecutor?s corner we have novelist Jonathan Franzen, playing the role of ?bookservative? and decrying the rise of these anti-democratic digital tomes. ?Maybe nobody will care about printed books 50 years from now, but I ...
Learn about eBooks and eReaders
The first seminar is on February 17th from 9:30-10:30 a.m. (program #220) at the Brighouse (Main) Branch, located at 7700 Minoru Gate; the second seminar is on March 6th from 2:30-3:30 p.m. (program # 302) at the Ironwood Branch, located in the Ironwood Plaza at the corner of No. 5 Road and Steveston Highway; and the final seminar is on March 30th from 9:30-10:30 a.m. (program # 303) at the ...
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