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Over the last week in my new first-year undergraduate course, Media Fluency for the Digital Age, my students have been wrestling with a very counterintuitive digital media assignment, and I think it’s worth exploring why these members of the “born digital” generation found this assignment so difficult
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I track ebook daily deals from Kindle Store and Nook Store pretty long. And I’ve waited pretty long to get the example like that. Delete the scoop?
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In case you couldn't figure it out for yourself, this is a photo of me wearing my beloved "read" necklace. I frequently wear it at the library in order to send a subliminal message to the kids that READING IS COOL, SEE? Delete the scoop?
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Apple and a number of publishers named after similar legal action brought in U.S. Delete the scoop?
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“One-in-five adults do not use the internet. The difference between that group and the majority of Americans who do go online remains strongly correlated with age, education, and household income, which are the strongest positive predictors of internet use." Delete the scoop?
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If you frequently visit Ebook Friendly for Kindle tips, you must have seen beautiful screenshots on how-to posts about the Kindle Touch. Delete the scoop?
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Apple’s many backers are trying to rewrite history and cast Amazon as the villain in the Cupertino company’s first major antitrust case. Delete the scoop?
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Can Kevin Kelly and Nick Carr both be right? A plausible thought about the future of the book. Delete the scoop?
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Under Random House’s new pricing policy, an ebook that would have cost the LION consortium $35 to purchase through OverDrive on February 29 cost them $105 on March 1, according to Richard Conroy, the president of LION. Delete the scoop?
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From the NYPL Announcement: Thousands of historical documents at The New York Public Library – including material handwritten by George Washington and... Delete the scoop?
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Money is a topic on everyone’s mind, but I don’t have much details on it yet. 3M wouldn’t discuss cost in public, but I did overhear a rather interesting conversation. One librarian reported that 3M was asking for $30 thousand a year for the Cloud Library. Delete the scoop?
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The Subway Gallery will showcase more than 10,000 items from Clash lead guitarist Mick Jones’s personal collection of books, videos and other memorabilia, according to the Hampstead and Highgate Express. Delete the scoop?
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Ingram is a huge aggregator of books, ebooks, and other content for the retail market, and today I learned that they’re entering the public library market as well. The MyiLibrary service is best thought of as a direct competitor to OverDrive (that’s how it was described to me). I don’t have full details on it, but I did pick up a fact or 2. Delete the scoop?
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Fast Company has an interview with Mark Coker of Smashwords in which he discusses the recent moves by PayPal to force removal from sale of certain categories of... Delete the scoop?
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Today’s Kindle Fire tip is how to correct a glitch that causes a currently-purchased Kindle book to NOT download to the Kindle Fire, whether the attempted download is done via the Kindle Fire itself or from the Amazon ManageYourKindle page. Delete the scoop?
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Book publishers argue that Amazon is a vicious monopoly that has too much power over them and their content. But they need to realize they gave Amazon much of that power themselves when they agreed to shackle all of their books in DRM chains. Delete the scoop?
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On average, ebook catalogs hosted more than 408,000 visits each day. Visitors viewed 11.6 pages and browsed the site for 9 minutes 34 seconds on average. Delete the scoop?
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Thomas & Mercer acquires license to publish Ian Fleming's 14 classic James Bond books in North America Delete the scoop?
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Over the last week in my new first-year undergraduate course, Media Fluency for the Digital Age, my students have been wrestling with a very counterintuitive digital media assignment, and I think it’s worth exploring why these members of the “born digital” generation found this assignment so difficult
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The DoJ is suing Apple and five major e-book publishers as it begins an antitrust investigation into the alleged collusion of e-book price fixing. Delete the scoop?
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Is paranoia over piracy leading publishers to extremes that could turn off their readers? Delete the scoop?
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People who read e-books read more books than those don't. According to Pew, as the number of Americans that own tablet computers and e-book reading devices has increased, so has the percentage of adults who report that they have read an e-book in the past year. Delete the scoop?
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Microsoft has made no secret about its plans for a single unified ecosystem for multiple platforms using its operating system. Delete the scoop?
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We ran across an article in The News Herald about the classic books that aren't available in e-book format yet... Delete the scoop?
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Downloading saucy stories is becoming increasingly popular with women as the anonymity of the transaction means they are spared the blushes of having to buy a naughty book in stores. Delete the scoop?
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