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BookServer: A Plan to Build an Open Web of Books
Written by Sarah Perez / October 20, 2009 6:21 AM / 4 Comments

The Internet Archive has just unveiled their ambitious project called BookServer, which will allow users to find, buy,

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On Demand Books Turns Google's eBook Archive Back Into Paperbacks
Written by Frederic Lardinois / September 17, 2009 10:59 AM / 8 Comments

When you think about Google Books, chances are that you are thinking about eBooks and searching books on

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Google Books Just Got Better: Better Search Within Books, Embedding, & More
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 18, 2009 9:28 AM / 6 Comments

Google Books may be mired in controversy, but that isn't stopping Google from regularly adding new features to

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Being Harry Potter, While You Walk to Work
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / March 18, 2009 11:43 AM / 13 Comments

Dan Hon is building a radical new future for one of humanity's oldest activities - the telling of

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Google Book Search Goes Mobile
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 5, 2009 9:47 AM / 4 Comments

If you spend time on the mobile web, you know there's certainly no shortage of content already available

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Project Gutenberg Releases Mobile eBooks
Written by Sarah Perez / December 23, 2008 7:29 AM / 4 Comments

Project Gutenberg, the longtime home of free eBooks on the web, has just introduced a mobile-ready version of

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We Have To Turn This Crisis Around
Written by Sramana Mitra / November 18, 2008 5:00 AM / 10 Comments

"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." - Dylan

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The End of Snippet View: Google Settles Lawsuit with Book Publishers
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 28, 2008 9:54 AM / 1 Comments

Google today announced that it has reached a deal with book publishers to settle two copyright lawsuits over

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5 Great Books to Build Your Character
Written by Alex Iskold / October 7, 2008 8:13 PM / 20 Comments

Tough economic times and startups have at least one thing in common - you need character and determination

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reCaptcha: Stopping Spam While Transcribing Books
Written by Frederic Lardinois / September 24, 2008 11:35 AM / 9 Comments

CAPTCHAs, those pesky challenge-response tests that many web sites use to determine whether you are human or a

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Google Book Search Adds Embeddable Previews
Written by Frederic Lardinois / September 22, 2008 11:10 AM / 3 Comments

Google today announced embeddable previews for all books included in Google's Book Search. Developers can now make use

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Amazon Buys Shelfari and its Innovative UI
Written by Richard MacManus / August 26, 2008 12:45 AM / 10 Comments

Shelfari, a small book sharing startup, was acquired today by Amazon (an existing investor in the company). Shelfari

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Amazon Remembers Its Origins: Buys Abebooks
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 1, 2008 8:35 AM / 1 Comments

Amazon today announced that it will acquire AbeBooks, the online marketplace for used and rare books. Given the

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What Startups Can Learn From Haruki Murakami
Written by Alex Iskold / July 29, 2008 7:48 PM / 33 Comments

I'm a big fan of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. The genius of Murakami is in his discipline, focus

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Commuto: Community-Based Online Trading
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 1, 2008 1:30 PM / 7 Comments

Commuto puts an interesting spin on trading real world goods on the Internet. Clearly, it would be extremely

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Zoomii: A Virtual Book Browsing Service
Written by Corvida / June 21, 2008 8:51 AM / 3 Comments

There's no denying that browsing for books is much more fun in a bookstore rather than online,

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Will the Future Novel be More than Text on a Page?
Written by Josh Catone / June 11, 2008 7:32 PM / 19 Comments

We all know what it looks like when a novel is adapted for film or television. But what

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Borders To Compete With Amazon
Written by Corvida / May 27, 2008 12:50 PM / 6 Comments

Bookworms around the world have something to rejoice about today. The Borders bookstore, a competitor of Barnes and

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Free Webinar on Social Technology Today
Written by Sarah Perez / May 9, 2008 7:38 AM / 4 Comments

You've probably heard people talking about the new "it" book: "Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social

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Digital Information 250 Years From Now
Written by Josh Catone / April 12, 2008 9:29 AM / 26 Comments

The US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has apparently decided to end its policy of taking

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