Jan 222009
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“LibraryThing has just partnered up with Cambridge Information Group, which owns Bowker, AquaBrowser, ProQuest, Serials Solutions and RefWorks.”
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“As the death watch continues for the publishing business and perhaps even the book itself, a group of writers, technologists, publishers, agents, designers, booksellers, and social architects convened in London for BookCamp, a one-day thinking session (bookish experimentation) about what the future of the written word might be.” Death watch? Seriously? Still, book convention. Awesome!
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And even more about collecting ARCs.
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More about collecting ARCs.
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Basic info, including some details about collecting ARCs! Very helpful and well-written.
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“For as long as humans have been developing new technology, we’ve been worrying that our inventions will cause our brains to decay.” I don’t necessarily agree that reading books is a dying pastime, but it’s an interesting article nonetheless.
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“There is an e-book rush out there. Simon & Schuster, whose e-book sales quadrupled last year, is adding 5,000 titles to its list, while Random House, recording a 400% year-on-year increase in e-book sales, is doubling its offerings to 15,000 titles. And no wonder—the Association of American Publishers reported that total e-book sales ending September 2008 surged 51% over the same period in 2007.” Yay!
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‘Ron Charles, senior editor for the Washington Post Book World, believes paper galleys, at least at his newspaper, are pretty safe. “We haven’t received any electronic galleys so far, and I don’t sense any enthusiasm for them here,” said Charles. “In a way, that’s a shame, because we discard the vast majority of galleys and books that are sent our way—about 150 a day. We review 15 a week. The math is cruel.”’
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“Founded in 1998, the New York City-based group pairs women writers with female high school students in a special writing mentoring program. The group’s holiday fundraising goal is $30,000, and they have raised $27,000 with two weeks left in the campaign.”
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That last link was really interesting – the one with the women writers and the highschool students. But I also liked the Death Watch link. Personally, I haven’t gotten around to audio books or e-books myself yet, but it is definitely true, that I hear about them all the time and at my library they have looooong waiting lists for almost all their audio books, which are now taking up way more shelf-space than they did just a few years ago. So no doubt there is something going on there
But I do not hope that the real book will die!