Audiobook Blog - Audiobooker, by Mary Burkey - Booklist Online » Top 10 Social Networking in Libraries Trends for 2010 at Social. 10 Must-Read eBooks for Social Media Lovers. This series is supported by Times Reader 2.0. Learn more about The New York Times' latest innovation in newspaper delivery here. We're big fans of eBooks. You can read them on multiple computers or devices, add annotations, and search for specific words and phrases. Plus, an eBook doesn't take up tons of room like physical books, which is great for the road warrior. In the last few years, publishers have finally started to embrace digital publishing and now lots of books on lots of different topics are available for various eBook platforms. 1. Most people are familiar with the sanitized history of Facebook: Harvard kid starts a web site in his dorm room, ends up changing the world.
Format: Kindle, Nook, others 2. Bacon is the Community Manager for Ubuntu, one of the largest open source software projects on the planet. Format: Free PDF, Kindle, Nook, others 3. New York Times columnist David Pogue got into Twitter in late 2008 and decided to use the service as the basis for this book. 4. 5. Hidden Peanuts » Blog Archive » Publishers don’t understand e-bo. This Wall Street Journal article touched many nerves for me: Publishers hold back e-books.
So hold on, I’m going to get a bit ranty and this’ll probably be a long post Summary: Two major publishers have decided that they’re going to hold back e-book versions of their titles for months after the hardback release. From the article, here’s their justification: “The right place for the e-book is after the hardcover but before the paperback,” said Carolyn Reidy, CEO of Simon & Schuster, which is owned by CBS Corp. “We believe some people will be disappointed. A much better (and more profitable) course of action would be to simply embrace the e-book world and figure out how to adapt to this new ecosystem. Some publishers try to make the argument that people have had the choice to buy a hardback immediately or wait for the cheap paperback for decades. Meet Consumer Bob. A)If Bob’s tech-savvy he’ll pirate the e-book he wants. But let’s go back and look at part of that article quote again: What? Librarian Chick / FrontPage.