Guess what? Men and women are different. While that is obvious in many cases, it may be a little surprising to find that men and…
OPLIN 4Cast #233: E-book gender issues
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Guess what? Men and women are different. While that is obvious in many cases, it may be a little surprising to find that men and…
We have certainly written a number of posts on this blog about e-books in the past, but this post is about a specific kind of…
No doubt about it, libraries are going through some very tough times right now. On top of draconian budget cuts, they have to deal with…
It’s a safe assumption that most of our readers have heard of the recent move by Harper Collins to restrict the lending of their e-books…
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Last week there were several interesting postings on the Internet about the notion of “owning” e-books. We’ve mentioned e-book DRM issues in this blog before,…
Just at the end of the year, the Pew Internet & American Life Project released a report indicating that “65% of Internet users have paid for…
We often may think of e-books as a variation of print books, only with the words delivered to an e-book reader rather than impressed on…
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We’ve done three OPLIN 4cast posts about e-books in the last six months, and this one makes four. We try to mix our topics and…
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As of Monday, Dorchester Publishing, which claims to be the oldest independent mass market publisher in America and is known as a romance publisher, switched…
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Amazon announced yesterday that it sold more Kindle books than hardback books over the last three months. While the format of the book may be…