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San Francisco e-books

E-books cost too much in San Francisco, and everywhere else too

Robert Haft said it— “Books cost too much in San Francisco...” This tagline was uttered by Robert Haft, president of the discount...
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Kindle e-books available for lending at public libraries later in 2011

The joy of reading – The San Francisco Public Library offers its residents a myriad of lending services for books, magazines, CDs, and even...
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Twilight in the Gutenberg Galaxy?

Mark Coker, founder of SMASHWORDS, was in San Franisco last week addressing various industry forums. I caught up with him at a meeting of the...
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The 7 deadly sins of publishing

It is no secretthat book publishing as an industryis in trouble. The latest rumors of publishing's demise predict that traditional publishing...
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New book sales statistics released for last year

The premier industry group for book publishers, The Association of American Publishers (AAP),has just released new book sales statistics for 2009....
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Woz sees big things for iPad

Apple co-founder and Bay Area resident Steve Wozniak has gotten heat for endorsing products from Apple competitors, but he seems to be solidly in...
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Is Apple's tablet a Kindle-killer?

There's nothing like a unannounced tech product to inspire the imagination, especially if Apple is behind it. Hence the latest report...
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Open-source group sues electronics giants

The Software Freedom Law Center, a group focused on punishing violations of the General Public License (GPL) that underlies much open-software, has...
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Romance novels still going strong

Not much mediaattention is paid to the work horses of the publishing industry, the genre novels.Comprising familiar categories of escapist fiction...
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Text, video smashed together in "vooks"

From the guardians of our waning national literacy comes an ugly word and lame idea.That would be the "vook," a hybrid electronic doument...
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