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Consumer use guide to e-books and readers

Consumer use guide to e-books and readers

I get asked a lot of questions about e-books and e-book readers. There seems to be a lot of confusion about the different devices and what buying one will allow people to do. Depending upon which device you’re looking at, these can be very expensive gadgets. The following is an attempt to clarify what one […]

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Zombi Authors and the Death of Publishing

Zombi Authors and the Death of Publishing

I just visited Project Gutenberg looking for books from the American Colonial period and just beyond. The other day I’d found and downloaded an encyclopedia of “useful information” published in 1889, which had fascinating stuff in it. One article, for example, reflected the scientific thought of the day about the origin of oil—and did so […]

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