Talk about irony. In an Orwellian moment , owners of Amazon’s Kindle discovered that their recently purchased copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm had been deleted by Amazon. Continued here: SHIFT: Is Big Brother living in your Kindle?
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Barnes & Noble said today it would offer free wireless Internet access at all its bookstores nationwide. Barnes & Noble has offered Wi-Fi access via AT&T since 2005, but that was a subscription-based service. Customers shopping in the bookstore will now be able to preview over 700,000 eBook titles along with thousands of public domain titles available from Google, on their Wi-Fi enabled devices. The company says its number of eBook titles is on track to reach the one million mark
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CREATING AND UPLOADING YOUR OWN BOOK TRAILER by Marlayne Giron How I got into making Book Trailers: I am a newly published author and career administrative assistant. When my publisher gave me the choice between an audio book, book trailer, or website I opted for the website because I wasn’t too impressed with the quality of the book trailer sample they sent me. Book Trailers created by professional companies can range start at $400 and up. No one knows your book as well as you do and all it n
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It’s not often that The New Yorker does the gadget review. But here we have one – Nicholson Baker breaking down the Kindle . The upshot? He’s not a big fan. Why? Let me give you some of the money quotes. And also note the iPhone/iPod Touch recommendations at the end (where I added some useful links): “The problem was not that the screen was in black-and-white; if it had really been black-and-white, that would have been fine. The problem was that the screen was gray. And it wasn’t just gray
Source:The New Yorker’s Knocks The Kindle
You know that Apple commercial from the 80’s where the lady (who was strangely buff and hot at the same time) runs up an aisle in a tank top and chunks a sledgehammer at a massive TV screen? Yeah, this is kinda gonna be like that … I propose that the current ATS model is broken. I propose that a central repository of data made up from collected resumes is a poor way to comb through and assess talent. I propose that once many of you reading this stop sticking your William Tincup voodoo do
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This is a guest post from Karen Schweitzer, who writes about online colleges for OnlineCollege.org. Karen has previously contributed to Poorer Than You with the post 15 Places to Find Free Books Online . You don’t need a television, Blu-ray player, or cable package to watch all of your favorite TV shows, movies, and documentaries. There are plenty of sites online that broadcast this sort of entertainment. Some sites even provide downloads so that you can legally transfer files to your PC,
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by Sean Gomez The trial courts and federal court system of the United States are part of the District Court. Both civil and criminal cases equally take place in a court of law. There are a number of reasons as to why you may want to obtain the information about a court case on record with the District Court. Particular and individual cases can be researched for studies, or for many other reasons as long as they are not for ill intentions. No matter what you need a district court case rec
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How the Swedish Pirate Party Platform Backfires on Free Software by Richard Stallman : The bullying of the copyright industry in Sweden inspired the launch of the first political party whose platform is to reduce copyright restrictions: the Pirate Party. Its platform includes the prohibition of Digital Restrictions Management, legalization of noncommercial sharing of published works, and shortening of copyright for commercial use to a five-year period. Five years after publication, any publ
Source:Richard Stallman on Pirate Party and Free Software