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Sherman Alexie Clarifies “Elitist” Charges
As noted by Kassia Kroszer and others, Sherman Alexie recently expressed some controversial remarks in relation to the eReader. At a BookExpo panel, Alexie called the Amazon Kindle “elitist” and said...
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As widely reported over the past week, BookExpo America featured several $249 e-readers. And while I certainly observed many people salivating over e-readers as a whole, a good deal of drool congealed...
View ArticleBEA 2009: The Truth About Book Piracy
At BookExpo America, Wet Asphalt’s Eric Rosenfield entered into a lengthy conversation with Brian O’Leary of Magellan Media. And it became necessary to capture their quasi-caffeinated colloquy for...
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James Tracy, Our Digital Martyr
Dear Comrades: James Tracy, headmaster of Cushing Academy, has a vision. While the academy has acquired a library of some 200,000 volumes over its 144-year history, Mr. Tracy believes that the future...
View ArticleBEA 2011: “The E-Book Era is Now”
The E-Book Era is Now: What Does It Look Like From the Consumer Perspective? And What Do We Do About It? Participants: Kelly Gallagher, RR Bowker; Angela Bole, Book Industry Study Group On Monday...
View ArticleBEA 2011: The Future of Ebooks Publishing Executive Panel
The Future of eBooks Publishing Executive Panel Participants: Tom Turvey (Google Books – moderator), Andrew Savikas (O’Reilly/Safari Books Online), Evan Schnittman (Bloomsbury), Amanda Close (Random...
View ArticleBEA 2011: Seven Years of Google Books
Seven Years of Google Books: The Next Chapter Presenter: James Crawford, Engineering Director, Google Books On Thursday morning, a crowd of forty, sprouting into about seventy as the aspirin and...
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