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		<title>They&#8217;re Going to Kill Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting post over at PandoDaily, with a purported publishing industry insider commenting on Amazon&#8217;s game plan. The context is the usual (I&#8217;ve done it too) list of what ails book publishing, but with the author suggesting that Amazon will emerge as the sole survivor. Don&#8217;t know about the source, but the smell of death is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shermanfyoung.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1384091&amp;post=1010&amp;subd=shermanfyoung&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kindle Library Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon launched its kindle lending library in November last year and is now reporting that in conjunction with its Direct Publishing scheme, independent authors are earning reasonable money via the lending of their books. At $1.70 per borrow, there&#8217;s some money to be made &#8211; albeit within the confines of the Amazon ecosystem. From readwriteweb: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shermanfyoung.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1384091&amp;post=1008&amp;subd=shermanfyoung&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>McHappy Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report that mcDonalds in the UK is giving way books instead of toys in their Happy meals: McDonald’s UK is to hand out around nine million popular children’s books with its Happy Meals, as part of a new partnership with publishing house HarperCollins. The promotion aims to get books into the hands of families [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shermanfyoung.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1384091&amp;post=1005&amp;subd=shermanfyoung&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lending eBooks&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also from the NY Times, a piece from Randall Stross on the challenges facing publishers and libraries in lending ebooks: &#8230; we can also guess that the number of visitors to the e-book sections of public libraries’ Web sites is about to set a record, too.   And that is a source of great worry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shermanfyoung.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1384091&amp;post=1004&amp;subd=shermanfyoung&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Takeoff and Landing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the arguments for paper books is that airlines prohibit the use of electronic devices until the aircraft has reached cruising altitude. But are the technical reasons cited by authorities grounded (sorry!) in fact? The NY Times has a look here: The F.A.A. does allow some electronics during takeoff and landing. Portable voice recorders, hearing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shermanfyoung.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1384091&amp;post=989&amp;subd=shermanfyoung&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lean Back versus Lean Forward</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the old debates about the emergence of the personal computer as a media device centred on the lean-back (think television) versus lean-forward (think PC) distinction. The meme was that computers would never replace television because of that difference in engagement. In some ways the tablet (think iPad) has shattered that as it has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shermanfyoung.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1384091&amp;post=976&amp;subd=shermanfyoung&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Print versus Electronic</title>
		<link>http://shermanfyoung.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/print-versus-electronic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 07:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The argument over reading print versus reading on screens continues. Some remain convinced that paper has no peer. But recent research from Germany suggests otherwise: There are no disadvantages to reading from electronic reading devices compared with reading printed texts. This is one of the results of the world&#8217;s first reading study of its kind undertaken [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shermanfyoung.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1384091&amp;post=950&amp;subd=shermanfyoung&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon the Publisher&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not content with selling books, Amazon is increasingly playing in the publishing space. An interesting New York Times article has details: Amazon executives, interviewed at the company’s headquarters here, declined to say how many editors the company employed, or how many books it had under contract. But they played down Amazon’s power and said publishers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shermanfyoung.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1384091&amp;post=948&amp;subd=shermanfyoung&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Kindle reviewed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a link to a review of the $79 Kindle by Marco Arment: Knowing that this new Kindle costs less than the cover for my Kindle 2 is freeing: I can just carry it around uncased and unprotected in a (large) pocket, use it anywhere, and not worry about damaging an expensive electronic item, because it’s not. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shermanfyoung.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1384091&amp;post=946&amp;subd=shermanfyoung&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs 1955-2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Jobs wasn&#8217;t a geek&#8217;s geek. Rather he was one of the few in the industry who understood that computer technology was most useful when it touched our humanity, and empowered &#8216;the rest of us&#8217; to do things we otherwise could not have done. Perhaps more than anyone, he ushered in an era when the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shermanfyoung.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1384091&amp;post=942&amp;subd=shermanfyoung&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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