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		<title>How Libraries Are Reinventing Themselves for the Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ALLISON BERRY</dc:creator>
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		<title>Everything Allen Needed to Know About Windows 95, All on One Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 14:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A long-lost 1990s instruction sheet neatly sums up computing and the Internet in a long-ago era.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=130905&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoreau’s Walden: The Video Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Hayden</dc:creator>
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		<title>Justice Department Threatens Apple, Publishers over E-Book Pricing</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/03/08/justice-department-threatens-apple-publishers-over-e-book-pricing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you notice that e-books became a little more expensive after Apple entered the game with iBooks? So did the U.S. Department of Justice, which may be threatening to sue Apple and e-book publishers for allegedly colluding to raise prices.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=122509&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Pulls 5,000 Books from Kindle Store</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/02/24/amazon-pulls-5000-books-from-kindle-store/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Priluck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a move that signifies Amazon’s determination to tighten its reign over the high stakes e-book market, the retailer removed a staggering 5,000 titles from its Kindle store because a Chicago distributor would not agree to new terms.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=120417&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Good and Awful: Literary Value in the Age of the Amazon Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a basic but still weird fact about books that two people’s experiences of the same book can be radically different but equally valid.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=118073&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today in Least Necessary Purchases: &#8216;Spotify For Dummies&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/11/today-in-least-necessary-purchases-spotify-for-dummies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotify! It's so complicated! You sign in, see songs on the screen...but then what? <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=102842&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Unveils $199 &#8216;Kindle Fire&#8217; Android Tablet, $99 &#8216;Kindle Touch&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/28/amazon-unveils-199-kindle-fire-android-tablet-99-kindle-touch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon fired its first serious shots across Apple and iOS&#8217;s bow this morning as it unveiled multiple new Kindle slates at surprisingly low prices, including new no-keyboard touch models as well as the not-so-secret headliner, dubbed &#8220;Kindle Fire&#8221; and built around Google&#8217;s Android operating system. &#8220;Four years ago, we set out to improve upon the book,&#8221; said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as he took the stage at a press event, right before turning the spotlight on not one but three new Kindle slates. (MORE: Wait, Now Amazon&#8217;s Launching Three Kindle Tablets on Wednesday?) The first new device, dubbed &#8220;Kindle Touch,&#8221; is a grayscale e-ink Kindle but without a dedicated keyboard. Instead, the Touch works just as it sounds: navigation by way of a 6-inch infrared multitouch display. The Touch comes in two models, one with Wi-Fi for $99, another with Wi-Fi and 3G for $149 (Amazon claims 3G support in 100 countries worldwide, and that like prior Kindles, the $149 price is pay-once, no further charges or commitments). Claimed battery life (for both versions) is two months, and they&#8217;re available for pre-order now, but won&#8217;t ship until November 21. If you don&#8217;t need or care much about touch and want to save a few bucks, Amazon&#8217;s rebooting the entry-level Kindle, too (call this its second new device). Dubbed simply &#8220;Kindle,&#8221; the new 5.98-ounce, $79 e-Ink reader will also jettison the older Kindle models&#8217; keyboards, replacing them with a few buttons situated at either side of a navigational rocker switch. The claimed battery life this model&#8217;s one month, and it&#8217;s available to order immediately. Last but not least, Amazon&#8217;s third reveal: the Kindle Fire, a $199 Android-based tablet with a 7-inch multi-touch &#8220;vibrant color&#8221; IPS display capable of 1024 x 600 pixel resolution at 169 ppi with 16 million colors. It packs a dual-core processor, 8 GB of internal storage, USB 2.0, a standard audio jack and weighs 14.6 ounces. No, there&#8217;s strangely no 3G version—for $199 the Fire is Wi-Fi only, though Amazon was quick to add that computer-related system requirements are nil because<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98453&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Borrow Library Books on Your Kindle</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/21/how-to-borrow-library-books-on-your-kindle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great news for Amazon Kindle owners. E-book downloads are now available from over 11,000 libraries around the country. Borrowed books sport many of the same features that come along with books purchased from Amazon—synching, notes, highlights—but the books must be found via your local library&#8217;s website, not through Amazon&#8217;s e-book store. Amazon&#8217;s simple instructions: &#8220;To start checking out Kindle library books, visit your local library&#8217;s website.&#8221; Great idea, except some library websites aren&#8217;t exactly case studies in interface design. I, myself, popped over to the Boston Public Library website to see what was available and couldn&#8217;t find any mention whatsoever of Kindle books at first glance. (LIST: All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books) So I searched for &#8220;Kindle&#8221; in the search box. Again, nothing. Then I hovered over &#8220;bpl catalogs&#8221; in the navigation bar and chose &#8220;Electronic Books.&#8221; Getting warmer! Under the &#8220;eBooks&#8221; section, we&#8217;ve got six different e-book catalogs. I remember Amazon mentioning that it uses the OverDrive system for book lending, which I found as one of the six catalog choices. If you&#8217;re looking for e-books to load up on your Kindle, a far easier step is to just go to the OverDrive website and enter your zip code right there on the main page. Then choose your closest library and it&#8217;ll kick you off to your branch&#8217;s respective OverDrive catalog where you can start borrowing. My branch currently shows 5,364 titles available for borrowing, though the number of available copies for each book is limited. Another tip: If you know the exact title of your book, put it in quotes when using OverDrive&#8217;s search box. My test search for &#8220;Eat, Pray, Love&#8221; without quotes turned up 132 books. Using quotes, I got just the one actual book. Unsurprisingly, you&#8217;ll also have to have a library card number, so check with your branch to see if you can sign up for one online. Kindle books can then generally be borrowed for 14 days. Find the one you want, input your library card number, and you&#8217;ll be whisked off to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=97827&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, Goodreads Launches Book Recommendations Service</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/16/finally-goodreads-launches-book-recommendations-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allie Townsend</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Goodreads is now the Netflix of book recommendations, or at least the company thinks so, seeing as its CEO Otis Chandler said exactly that in a press release announcing Goodreads&#8217; new recommendation engine yesterday. It&#8217;s about time. Founded in 2006, Goodreads has gathered nearly six million users, a plump following for a niche social site, but while six million is a respectable number, the nature of Goodreads&#8217; service requires these users to be fairly active to get much out of it. To grow the audience, Goodreads needed to appeal to a more passive audience. Some may call these people lazy. I prefer to think of them as busy. And yes, I&#8217;m one of them. (MORE: Is Bookish the New IMDB For Books?) On paper, I&#8217;m the perfect potential Goodreads user. I love literature. A large part of my career is social media. But still, I&#8217;ve never been completely sold on Goodreads. I wanted to like it. I wanted to love it, but after a few weeks, it all started to feel like work. Sure, it&#8217;s nice to see which books my trendy college friend is waxing on about this month, or that some of my high school friends are flying their &#8220;Twilight&#8221; flags proudly, but I knew this all from Facebook. Goodreads had become just one more thing I needed to do everyday. It was a great community, sure, but what about my right to be a perfectly lazy consumer? At the site&#8217;s inception, Goodreads prided itself on this idealistic human-to-human book discovery that the site offered. It was part of the &#8220;Aren&#8217;t you sick of robots telling you what you want?&#8221; digital boom. And it was appealing. The web felt like a community again – until we quickly realized that communities require a lot of upkeep. While peer recommendations are important, it&#8217;s hard to argue against math. As Pandora and Netflix gained notoriety for their algorithms, users flocked. What Goodreads needed was our information to sell ads. We became a little less inclined to give it to them without<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=97373&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon May Be Considering a &#8216;Netflix for Books&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/12/amazon-may-be-considering-a-netflix-for-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a Netflix… for books. Wait – isn’t my Netflix subscription ending soon? What will I do without it? Is it time to stop watching the boob tube and start reading? Luckily for me, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon, Lord of the Kindles, may be in talks with book publishers to launch a monthly book subscription service. It’s not the first time that a company has looked into launching a similar service for books, but it is the first time that a major behemoth like Amazon had expressed interest. The company would be in a strong position to launch such a product, especially with its Kindle dominance in the e-reader market. The supposed details of the proposal state that the service may also be available to Amazon Prime customers, who already pay $79 a year for unlimited two-day shipping and access to a bevy of multimedia. (MORE: Why I Already Miss Physical Media) According to the newspaper’s sources, Amazon would offer publishers a substantial fee if they choose to participate. It’s unclear what kind of traction the talks might already have, but some publishers have apparently already expressed concern. One unnamed executive was worried that it would “downgrade the value of the book business.“ The subscription service would most likely be U.S.-only. Of course, the success of the proposal would heavily depend on what kind of deals Amazon is able to secure from publishers, and if they are able to secure exclusivity to popular titles. How about picking up some of those Bella and Edward fans, eh? Should Amazon be able to cast some of its magic to get some Harry Potter love onboard, it would also bode well for the online retailer. But in the meantime, I’ve got a bunch of Dexter episodes to watch. (MORE: Store Letting People Trade Kindles For Physical Books) [via Wall Street Journal] Erica Ho is a reporter at TIME. Find her on Twitter at @ericamho and Google+. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=96594&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The End of Paper? How to Save a Copy of Every Book Ever Published</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/11/the-end-of-paper-how-to-save-a-copy-of-every-book-ever-published/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know it&#8217;s coming. At some point, we&#8217;ll finally bid adieu to our beloved stacks and shelves of tree-ware. Borders, as you know, is well along in process of liquidating its company assets. I live in Ann Arbor, Michigan—basically Borders ground zero, where a stupefying three company bookstores are shuttering. Analysts are looking at Barnes &#38; Noble like the company&#8217;s already slipped past the event horizon. Independent booksellers stand to hang on for awhile, but the only surefire long term paper-based book bet seems to be in dealing used, the twenty-first-century&#8217;s burgeoning antique chic. (MORE: Why I Already Miss Physical Media) So what happens to all our paper books when they become an endangered species? You build a preserve to protect them—each and every one—of course. That&#8217;s what entrepreneur Brewster Kahle wants to do, anyway. The irony? He&#8217;s the guy who founded the Internet Archive in 1996, a way to save a copy of every web page ever created. &#8220;There is always going to be a role for books,&#8221; Kahle told the Associated Press in late July. &#8220;We want to see books live forever.&#8221; Imagine a climate-controlled warehouse with containers that can hold 40,000 volumes each. Imagine it eventually holding one million books total. Imagine 10 such complexes, or 10 million books total. That&#8217;s Kahle&#8217;s &#8220;realistic&#8221; goal, or about as many books as you&#8217;d find in the Chicago Public Library, one of the country&#8217;s largest collections. It&#8217;s only outpaced by a handful of others, including Harvard University with over 15 million books and the Library of Congress with nearly 30 million. How many books exist worldwide? According to Google, per its ongoing attempts to scan in every book ever published, the number&#8217;s a whopping 130 million. A crazy pipe dream to somehow gather up all that paper? Kahle says he&#8217;s indeed hoping to grab one copy of every book ever published, adding &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to get there, but that&#8217;s our goal.&#8221; Can&#8217;t we essentially replicate the contents of every book by way of digital media? All that&#8217;s required for academic purposes—arguably<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=93475&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E-Book Sales Rise More than 1,000% Since 2008</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/09/e-book-sales-rise-more-than-1000-since-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, here&#8217;s one growth industry in the middle of our dire economic straits: According to a new survey of sales revenue provided by more than 2,000 publishers in the U.S., book sales are rising, with e-book revenue growing a surprising 1,274% between 2008 and 2010. Revenue on e-books reached $878 million in 2010, with sales hitting 114 million copies in that year, an increase of 1,039% over 2008 sales. Part of that growth comes from customers going from store shopping to online shopping: Online spending rose 55.2% between 2008 and 2010, according to the survey, with sales growing 68.6% in the period of the survey. Obviously, the release of more user-friendly e-book readers during this period contributed to the jump in the market; 2011 is anecdotally the best year yet for e-book sales with sales on the iPad, Kindle, Nook and other devices said to be reaching new highs. Frustratingly, that information isn&#8217;t contained in this survey—but I&#8217;m sure that publishers and device makers won&#8217;t be too embarrassed to tell us when records are broken, nonetheless. [via paidContent.org] MORE: New E-Book Reader First to Integrate Google Bookstore Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=93233&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New E-Book Reader First to Integrate Google Bookstore</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/11/new-e-book-reader-first-to-integrate-google-bookstore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google is getting deeper into the e-book market by partnering with device manufacturer iRiver on the upcoming &#8220;Story HD&#8221; e-book reader. It&#8217;ll go on sale this Sunday at Target for $140 and it features a built-in Wi-Fi connection with content available for purchase through the Google eBookstore that was launched late last year. (MORE: Google Launches E-book Store, Mobile and Web-based Apps) The Story HD e-book reader looks similar to Amazon&#8217;s Kindle, with a full QWERTY keyboard and a six-inch screen. Unlike other e-book readers on the market, though, the Story HD has a higher-resolution screen—1024 vertical pixels by 768 horizontal pixels, versus the 800&#215;600 resolution found in most other 6-inch e-book readers. Google Books are already compatible with plenty of e-book readers, but the Story HD will be the first to use Google&#8217;s bookstore as the primary means of getting content onto the device. As for pricing, the Story HD falls squarely in line with Barnes &#38; Noble&#8217;s Wi-Fi Nook—which doesn&#8217;t sport a keyboard but features a touchscreen, and Amazon&#8217;s Wi-Fi Kindle. It&#8217;ll go on sale this Sunday, the 17th, at Target. MORE: Amazon Now Sells More Kindle Books Than Hardcover and Paperback Combined<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89667&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leanpub: How to Turn Your Blog into an Instant E-Book</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/06/23/how-to-turn-your-blog-into-an-instant-e-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So. You got a blog. You want to turn it into a e-book, with a minimal amount of fuss and hard work. You need Leanpub. It&#8217;s a new service for writers who want to do minimalist home-grown publishing on their own terms, in a variety of formats that will suit owners of iPads, Kindles, and other e-readers. It&#8217;s also a completely new approach to the technical side of e-book publishing. When you sign up to Leanpub, you get access to a shared folder on Dropbox, into which you can put text files for your book. They can be formatted in HTML or Markdown (Word files are not accepted &#8211; this is lean publishing, remember?), and edited whenever you wish (even after the book has been published). (GALLERY: 10 Things Today&#8217;s Kids Will Never Experience) Leanpub is more a production tool than a publishing house. They provide the technology for converting your text files into PDF, iPad and Kindle compatible files, and let you charge whatever fee you like (from 99 cents to $99). Because Leanpub books are published via Dropbox, they can be updated whenever the author feels like it. In fact, that&#8217;s one the most important aspects of the service, says Leanpub founder Peter Armstrong: &#8220;Lean Publishing is the act of self-publishing a book while you are writing it, evolving the book with feedback from your readers and finishing a first draft before optionally using the traditional publishing workflow.&#8221; For bloggers, there&#8217;s an extra feature. You can import the RSS feed of your blog, and instamagically convert the whole thing into a book. Similar services have been around for a while, but Leanpub offers a bit more control: you can dive right into the converted files, editing out the cruft and deleting whole posts if you like. You can decide what gets left behind in e-book form. Leanpub takes a cut of all sales, but even so the split is pretty fair, and much more generous to writers than most traditional dead tree publishing deals. What are you waiting<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=87755&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Now Sells More Kindle Books Than Hardcover and Paperback Combined</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/19/amazon-now-sells-more-kindle-books-than-hardcover-and-paperback-combined/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 15:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was bound to happen, but no one really thought it&#8217;d happen this fast. In a press release sent out this morning, online mega-seller Amazon announced that Kindle books are now outselling both paperback and hardcover books combined. It took a little over two years since the Kindle launched in 2007 to have its e-books outpace hardcovers, but it happened in July of 2010 before overtaking paperbacks six months later as well. &#8220;Customers are now choosing Kindle books more often than print books,&#8221; says Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. &#8221;We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly &#8211; we&#8217;ve been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years.&#8221; Since April of this year, Amazon touts that they&#8217;ve been able to sell 105 Kindle books for every 100 print books sold. Part of the company&#8217;s accelerated success can at least be partially attributed to the proliferation of its e-readers. The third generation Kindle — in addition to being the Seattle-based company&#8217;s best selling item ever — pursued an aggressive low-pricing strategy in the interest of ubiquity, as perhaps best indicated by the recent introduction of a relatively inexpensive $114 ad-supported Kindle and Kindle apps for just about every popular mobile platform. And studies have shown that dedicated, e-ink powered readers like the Kindle can thrive alongside more capable devices like the iPad. The U.S. Kindle store has over 950,000 titles to choose from, a large portion of which (790,000) are priced at $9.99 or less. Amazon has teased out that it may unveil a full-fledged tablet later this year, while recent partnerships and initiatives (such as with local libraries) point to the device&#8217;s staying power with readers. More on TIME.com: Download Audiobooks Directly Onto Your Kindle The Kindle Killer That Wasn&#8217;t Kindle Books Now Have Page Numbers<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=83145&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Questions with Eli Pariser, Author of &#8216;The Filter Bubble&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/16/5-questions-with-eli-pariser-author-of-the-filter-bubble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 18:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eli Pariser is no enemy of the Internet. The 30-year-old online organizer is the former executive director and now board president of the online liberal political group MoveOn.org. But while Pariser understands the influence of the Internet, he also knows the power of online search engines and social networks to control exactly how we get information—for good and for ill. In his new book The Filter Bubble, Pariser explores the ways that personalization—the growing practice of Facebook and Google to craft our online experiences according to our supposed interests—can cloud our ability to see the world clearly. Pariser spoke with TIME’s Bryan Walsh about the book, the politics of personalization and how to ensure that you don’t end up in a search engine ghetto. TIME: What started you on the journey to writing The Filter Bubble? Pariser: I was taking a couple of days to get my head around how the way that information online was changing and I came across that post from Google about personalized search at the end of 2009. Immediately I went to Google and started tinkering around, seeing how different the search results were. I was really shocked by the degree of difference. This was like a completely different world from one person to another. That got me interested. At first I just wrote down some notes, but it just kept gnawing at me that this was kind of a big deal, and then I started to notice that Facebook was doing. The New York Times was investing on this News.me site that would do it for news. I realized that all of the profit incentive point in the direction of doing this as much as possible. There’s no reason to expect we wouldn’t keep seeing more and more of this. And it got me worried. TIME: What’s the downside to personalization? After all, the search engines and social networks are doing it because they say it will deliver a more useful Internet experience, one that helps automatically cut through all the data out there.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=82635&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Gaming &amp; Culture</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/apps-web/gaming-%c2%a0culture/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Could Social Reading Site &#8216;Bookish&#8217; Become &#8216;IMDB For Books&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/06/ss-hachette-penguin-announce-new-imdb-for-books-site-bookish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 22:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allie Townsend</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get your summer reading list ready, a new books site, Bookish, will launch on Labor Day. The site promises to be part content, part retailer and part recommendation engine—a unique literary web cocktail. Backed by publishing bigwigs like Simon &#38; Schuster, the Hachette Book Group and Penguin—who envision this latest attempt to create the world&#8217;s greatest online book club/bookstore as the be-all, end-all—it&#8217;s pretty much the latest in a long line of online book hubs. The difference here is that with the support of three major houses, it&#8217;s clear they think this one has a shot. And so do users. While there are plenty of candidates, I don&#8217;t believe we&#8217;ve really seen the best of what literature has to offer the online community. Even Goodreads&#8211;the still growing-like-a-web-weed social reading site—has its problems. It&#8217;s gaining about 100,000 new users a month, but there have been complaints from authors and members alike for things like reviews posted for books that haven&#8217;t been written, and &#8216;tricked ya!&#8217; features that prompt users to spam every contact in their address book. When it comes to a reader&#8217;s online experience, they&#8217;re still searching. Which is exactly why #Bookish has been trending on Twitter all morning. This is still a race to be won. The site itself will be a mix of social and editorial content, set to inform readers about upcoming books and deliver updates about favorite authors. Headed by Paulo Lemgruber, who ran the digital side of Comcast, Bookish hopes to be the IMDB of the book world, complete with breaking news, interviews, excerpts and reviews, Lemgruber told Publisher&#8217;s Weekly. He also promised the site would run independent of publisher influence, despite backing by three major publishing houses. Users will see book recommends based on the information they input, i.e. the more information you surrender, the more ostensibly spot-on the recommendation engine and &#8220;personalized&#8221; ads. Though nothing&#8217;s been divulged about the recommendation algorithm itself, the announcement did include news of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group&#8217;s involvement as the ad sales team. (Translation: Your information<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=81119&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs&#8217; Authorized Biography Debuts Next Year</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/11/steve-jobs-authorized-biography-debuts-next-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve’s official biography is coming. Entitled iSteve: The Book of Jobs, the tome is slated to hit bookshelves in early 2012. Biblical references aside, the manuscript, penned by Walter Isaacson, has been in the works since 2009. The biography will contain interviews from Jobs&#8217; family, colleagues and competitors. Most importantly, Isaacson also got the iStamp of approval, complete with an interview with Jobs himself. Simon &#38; Schuster will be publishing the authorized biography. It’s the first book to get the thumbs up from Jobs. In fact, Jobs has even responded negatively in the past to other volumes. In 2005, Apple decided to exclude all books published by John Wiley &#38; Sons after they signed up for a book project called iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business. Maybe it would really push sales if it&#8217;s sold as a set with the authorized version. Isaacson, who previously worked at CNN and TIME magazine (but not as a writer), has also written biographies about Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. He is currently the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a policy thinktank in Washington, D.C. (via Associated Press) More on TIME.com: Judge Says Jobs Must Testify In Antitrust Case Bad Idea: Steve Jobs May Show Up at the iPad Event Tomorrow Steve Jobs&#8217; Honorary Knighthood Blocked<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=75887&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Kindle-Killer That Wasn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/23/the-kindle-killer-that-wasnt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throw away your iPad. Trash your Kindle. The future of reading is made of something far more innovative, and it&#8217;s called &#8220;paper.&#8221; The flipback is, according to Patrick Kingsley at the UK Guardian, an ingenious new kind of printed book designed for the iGeneration. &#8220;Could this kill the Kindle?&#8221; the headlines asks. Err, no. The pages are &#8220;wafer-thin&#8221;, so thin that even a 550 page volume fits comfortably in his pocket. A clever new spine design means it lies flat in the hand, or on any other surface. You don&#8217;t have to hold it open, it just stays open. It&#8217;s a boon for commuters, he says: &#8220;Page-turning with paperbacks will see you elbowing your neighbour in the pancreas in no time. But the minuteness of this little beauty, with its pages that flip rather than turn, help me keep my elbows to myself and pancreases everywhere safe.&#8221; These things are all the rage in Holland, says Kingsley. Which is weird, because you&#8217;d think something that popular would have left behind some trace of its popularity on the web somewhere. But after hours of hunting high and low, Kingsley&#8217;s article, a follow-up at Boing Boing, and a zillion blogs linking to both of them are the only mentions we can find of flipback books. That&#8217;s the quietest craze we&#8217;ve ever seen. And another thing: a flipback might be small, and it might be convenient, but you&#8217;re still going to need a pretty big bag if you want to carry five hundred novels around with you. Something that&#8217;s no problem with e-readers. So you know what? Hang on to that iPad, and pluck that Kindle out of the trash. We don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re dead yet.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=72297&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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