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reader.ly - 4 days ago
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At the recent National Book Awards ceremony, T.J.
Stiles was presented the nonfiction award for The First...
Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. In his acceptance speech, he graciously thanked the people at his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, who supported the book, including e ...
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Behind Every Great Tycoon Biography
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reader.ly - 7 days ago
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Olive Kitteridge , by Elizabeth Strout, is a
collection of short stories about the inhabitants of Crosby,...
Maine, loosely tied together through their association with Olive Kitteridge, the title character and former high school math teacher. I started reading it after book club last week ...
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The Geography of Disconnection
reader.ly - 14 days ago
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A stunning display of the latest in video
and brochure folding technology Okay, so the TV is...
old and boxy, the wire visible and trailing off the table, and its only resemblance to the “stunning” retail displays promised at launch is that it is set up inside a Barnes & ...
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A Season for One-Time Sharing
reader.ly - 21 days ago
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As of Thursday, November 5, the Top 5
books on the Kindle Store Bestsellers List are: By...
Reason of Insanity , by Randy Singer Fireflies in December by Jennifer Erin Valent A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton Bound for the Holidays (Ties That Bind book 1) by Mackenzie McKade The ...
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Undercover
reader.ly - 22 days ago
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Last night I noticed that The Book of
Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy ,...
which Jason pre-ordered, was already in the archived section of my iPhone Kindle app. Since I had already finished my book club selection for the month and hadn’t decided what to read next, I opened up ...
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The Sports Guy and The New Yorker Guy
reader.ly - 26 days ago
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I just finished reading Sweetness at the Bottom
of the Pie on the Kindle and iPhone. It’s...
a quick read (two late nights) and utterly delightful, if that’s an appropriate way to describe a detective novel. Set in 1950’s England, Flavia de Luce, the 11-year-old heroine, uses ...
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Flavia vs. Barbie
reader.ly - 29 days ago
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I may have to wait longer to buy
a nook at my local Barnes & Noble after...
all. B&N spokesperson Mary Ellen Keating in an email to paidContent.org : While it’s always difficult to predict demand on a new product, and early from response from consumers is strong, Barnes & Noble ...
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The Curious Case of B&N’s Retail Strategy
reader.ly - 30 days ago
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The wonderful thing about sharing a Kindle with
your spouse is that you can see where your...
tastes in books overlap (Malcolm Gladwell) and diverge (anything to do with sports or Jane Austen), without ever having to argue about whose books should be banished to the bottom shelf in the ...
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Synchronicity
reader.ly - 10/22/2009
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In my excitement about the nook ( other
than the name ), I somehow missed out on...
the news that Tuesday’s announcement was a soft launch. I stopped by Barnes & Noble this morning, figuring I’d get to check out the nook in person. I expected to see huge window banners ...
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I Went to Look for a nook
reader.ly - 10/20/2009
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Athena was the Greek goddess of wisdom, reason,
weaving, and somehow both peace and war. She famously...
protected mythological heroes like Odysseus and Jason, and inspired the people of Athens to build the Parthenon. So if you heard that the Barnes and Noble’s new eReader was to be named ...
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From Classics to Cute: The B&N eReader
reader.ly - 10/16/2009
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In basketball, as in perhaps all sports, even
the most casual fan will yell at the referees...
for questionable calls. And if he’s watching the game at home, will replay the incident repeatedly to illustrate the miscarriage of justice. Now in addition to hitting the 20-second rewind button ...
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A Vook by Any Other Name
reader.ly - 10/13/2009
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I read a recap of the Ebook Pricing
panel from last week’s O’Reilly Tools of Change for...
Publishing Conference , and one of the speakers, Tammy Nam of Scribd, made a comment about the “interesting opportunity to provide metrics back to producers” Lots of people looked ...
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We R UR Focus Grp
reader.ly - 10/6/2009
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By marketing eReaders to people who already love
to read, device manufacturers are failing to expand the...
market of potential buyers, thereby cannibalizing the sales of printed books. Or so says Jason Pinter over at Huffington Post in his article “Why the Digital Revolution is Missing the ...
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Riding the Waves of the Digital Revolution
reader.ly - 10/5/2009
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I took the Kindle to my book club
meeting on Wednesday for the first time, where it...
was inspected with some interest. The other book club members, like myself, are women in their thirties. Some of the women are in the paid workforce, and a few of us have taken a couple of years off to raise the ...
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Book Club Sees Kindle, Smiles Politely
reader.ly - 10/2/2009
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With apologies to Dr. Seuss, the name Vook
is so absurd that it sounds like something out...
of One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish . Vook is actually the name of a company established last year “with the vision to unite the disparate worlds of books and videos into one complete, blended ...
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I Took a Look at the Vook not a Book
