TechRadar: Amazon has announced that it now sells more Kindle ebooks than all print books – that’s hardcover and paperback combined – through the Amazon.com site. Introduced less than four years ago, the Kindle has quickly become Amazon’s top selling product, and now digitised books for the reader have become more popular with its customers […]
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1867 – Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels’s primary river and creating the modern central boulevards. 1880 – Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect. 1894 – Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector. 1914 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers,
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Jim Krukal: Randy Cassingham is one of the first online publishers: his This is True column went online in 1994. It’s his full-time gig: over the years, it has brought him several million dollars in income, and he lives on 45 acres in western Colorado, where he looks at gorgeous snow-covered mountains from his home
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Amazon: Scott Nicholson had a successful full-time job as a reporter, but his true calling was to write fiction. “Writing novels has always been my real career, but so much of it was out of my control. I followed the same path through the publishing world as most writers—it was like there was an instruction
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The following is a guest post by Penny Carnathan. Writing a how-to business book or CEO memoir has become a recognized tool for business professionals marketing and branding themselves and their companies. It helps them establish their expertise while sharing useful information appreciated by readers. Plus, it can introduce them to a vast new audience
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So you’ve got a camera phone, why not make some money out of it? Red Ferret is reporting that Fizwoz is a new online marketplace where you can auction your captured images and video to the highest bidder. You set the start bid and Buy it Now price, upload the content and sit back and
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Long-distance relationships are difficult enough to maintain among adults, but when young kids are involved, the chances of achieving a meaningful conversation from afar tend to diminish. That’s where Readeo comes in, with a newly launched platform that lets families share bedtime stories through the web, reports trendspotter Springwise. The Chicago-based company’s patent-pending application integrates
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Editor & Publisher: Many people still prefer print to the online reading experience, especially when it comes to newspapers. Europeans, in particular, seem to love their morning paper. The printed medium is tactile — you can touch and feel it. You don’t have to plug it in. Research shows that newsprint users retain more of
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Mental Floss: Half a century before e-books turned publishing upside down, a different format threatened to destroy the industry. Here’s a little perspective: In 1939, gas cost 10 cents a gallon at the pump. A movie ticket set you back 20 cents. John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the year’s bestselling hardcover book, was $2.75.
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