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Explore the Humorous Side of Life with aClose Your Eyes the Future Has Just Beguna A Collection of Aphorisms and Cartoons Can people handle the truth or will it be too painful? When faced with the easy or hard decision, do people take the easy way out even though it doesnat give them their desired result? Aleksandar Krzavac releases his new book, aClose Your Eyes the Future Has Just Beguna. Are you the individual who always see the bright side of every challenge? Are you the person who is seen as the one who always makes lemonade out of lemons? For the individual who likes to think and live outside of the box, Aleksandar Krzavac has just the e-book for you, aClose Your Eyes the Future Has Just Beguna which is humorous and contains cartoons. Krzavac says he wrote aClose Your Eyes the Future Has Just Beguna to challenge people to think out of everyday convenient life. However, result is achieved even if readers had great fun. Some of the aphorisms contained in the book are: aSurvival skills have nothing to do with morals. Force is a side effect of ruling. Fight for the future, do not adopt it.a aClose Your Eyes the Future Has Just Beguna contains 401 aphorisms and approximately 77 cartoons. aClose Your Eyes the Future Has Just Beguna addresses almost all issues people are annoyed with, no matter what their economic status, education level or race. Sub-genre but not sub-culture, that keeps our eyes wide open revealing the extent of self-delusion in everyday life we are exposed to. Author Krzavac states, aOnce you read this e-book, the reader will figure out what the side effect of sex is, what real engine of revolution could be and even why communism failed or the real reason we vote for democracy. In aClose Your Eyes the Future Has Just Beguna, each single aphorism or cartoon is a world unto itself. It will literally draw the reader in and expand their thinking about the circumstances and world around them. Readers are encouraged to face the truth, no matter how painful it can be. For an interview or for more information, please contact Aleksandar Krzavac by phone at 00-381-644482728 or via email at krzavac@sbb.rs About Aleksandar Krzavac Aleksandar Krzavac was born in 1959 in Belgrade, the former Yugoslavian capital, where he spent his teenage years and his thirties in what is referred to in the West as a Communist dictatorship. Holder of a University degree in economics, e-book author Aleksandar Krzavac does not object to wasting his time writing aphorisms and drawing cartoons. Krzavac has published his aphorisms and cartoons in highly regarded Belgrade newspapers and magazines and a selection of Krzavac\’s cartoons are published on the Aydin Dogan Vakfi website. Aphorisms of Aleksandar Krzavac have appeared in the New York Times bestselling author James Geary\’s website at www.jamesgeary.com.

Amazon announced earlier this year that there would be lending available for some Kindle ebooks. The announcement came out yesterday that the feature is now active. Message from the Amazon Kindle Team: Today, we’re pleased to launch Kindle Book Lending, a new feature that lets you loan Kindle books to anyone you choose. The borrower does not need to own a Kindle. Kindle books can be read on Kindle or using our free Kindle reading applications for PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android devices. Each eligible book can be lent once for a period of 14 days. Not all e-books are lendable – the publisher or rights holder determines which titles are enabled for lending. For more information on how to loan Kindle books, please visit www.amazon.com/kindle-lending. (Source: LISNews – Librarian And Information Science News)

Iam going to make a New Yearas Resolution to do more e-book reviews. Theyare fun to write, and they make a good change in pace from the e-book news that fills these pages. Plus, they make a good excuse to read e-books in new programs or devices. Lately, Iave decided to go back and reread the entire Honor Harrington series and related works, by David Weber (and friends), in internal chronological order. A few more novels have come out since the last time I did this, with another scheduled for 2011, and itas been long enough since I read the whole thing that if I just read the latest ones I know Iall miss about half the story. And since Iam going to be reading them anyway, I figure I might as well review them here as I do it. (I will space them out and intersperse other reviews as well, for variety.) The Honor Harrington series is one of the Baen Free Libraryas earliest successesain fact, before there was a Free Library, the first Honor Harrington novel, On Basilisk Station, was given away as a afree samplea for Webscriptions. (Thatas how I first read it, and got hooked, and probably the same is true for many other Honor fans.) The fact that it also became Baenas most popular backlist title in paper was all the proof that Jim Baen and Eric Flint needed to form the library and, later, start giving away every e-book in that and other series on bound-in CDROMs. Since the complete Honor Harrington series thus far is available on one of those CDROMs (with the exception of one short story/novella anthology, due out in February), hosted publicly on-line at The Fifth Imperium, this means that any TeleRead readers who would like to follow along can read the stories as I do. The reviews will try to avoid major spoilers for the book or story being reviewed, but will almost certainly contain them for previous ones. …

A couple of years ago, I presented a print-on-demand workshop at what turned out to be the last iteration of BookExpo Canada.A At the end of the trip, severe thunderstorms stranded me in Toronto. After weighing my options, perhaps poorly, I decided to drive home rather than wait at the airport for another 24 hours (or more).A Most of the drive would take place at night, but I wasnat tired and traffic was light. By 12:30 a.m., I had made it around the lake and was just outside Rochester, NY on the New York Thruway (their spelling, not mine).A I looked down to pick up a cup of coffee I had bought at the last rest stop, and I looked up to see a deer in headlights. Things got worse after that a I swerved, caught a guardrail, bounced off the road and landed deep in a marsh a but I missed the deer.A As I passed it (on my way to a date with the guardrail), the deer was frozen in the same spot, either uncertain what to do or hoping for the best. Itas the end of a year, so weare waist-deep in retrospectives and prognostications.A Reading them, Iam reminded of the way that deer looked. A Mashable thought piece, a5 E-Book Trends That Will Change the Future of Publishinga, started me down the path.A Predictions like aThe $9.99 e-book wonat last forevera (he didnat think the price was high) and aPublishers will be more important than evera were enough to make me swear off end-of-year reading. Unfortunately, I didnat stop.A When the New York Times ran an obligatory roundup that might have been better titled aBig Trade Publishers Realize E-Books Are Populara, this stopped me in my tracks: aMy No. 1 concern is the survival of the physical bookstore,a said Carolyn Reidy, the chief executive of Simon & Schuster. aWe need that physical environment, because itas still the place of discovery. People need to see books that they didnat know they wanted. …

On time too — year end. This started as a preview of theA new Kindle-book lending feature as described by Amazon. I tweeted this development, at about 3:45 PM PST after reading about it on the forums where it was already a busy message thread. That main Kindle Team Forum Announcement is at theA Amazon Kindle Community forums, and I’m adding a bit more in this update with modifications to the earlier afternoon report . REMINDER: If your web browser (especially Firefox) drops you onto the Amazon Kindle Forum’s list of topics instead of bringing you directly to a forum thread, click onA Refresh orA Reload to get the message thread itself — or click again on the link here. A I don’t know why a ‘retry’ is often needed with the forums, but it is, in my case at least. Here’s the very brief announcement for the blog record: ‘ A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Initial post: Dec. 30, 2010 9:16 AM PST The Amazon Kindle team says: (AMAZON OFFICIAL) Today, we’re pleased to launch Kindle Book Lending, a new feature that lets you loan Kindle books to anyone you choose. A The borrower does not need to own a Kindle. A Kindle books can be read on Kindle or using ourA free Kindle reading applications for PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android devices. A Each eligible book can be lent once for a period of 14 days. A Not all e-books are lendable -A the publisher or rights holder determines which titles are enabled for lending. A For more information on how to loan Kindle books, please visitA www.amazon.com/kindle-lending. ‘ As it is, there is quite a bit of good detail, with illustrations, at theA main Kindle-book lending page. Kindle-edition subscribers: Do use the computer instead to seeA that very helpful, detailed Amazon how-to-page for loaning or borrowing Kindle books. Type inA http://amzn. …

This is a bit different so I thought I’d post it in full – and its free. A It should be of special interest to our European readers: My Cybook Opus Ebook Reader – Adventures of a New User is a free digital reading ebook by Paolo Amoroso of Nostromics. You are encouraged to freely download, use, distribute and share the book under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported license. About the book The book tells the author’s experience in selecting, buying and using a Cybook Opus ebook reading device. The Opus is a popular digital reader manufactured by BOOKEEN.A These devices are used for reading electronic books orA e-books, i.e. publications in digital form suitable for reading on computers and other digital devices. This work, written from the point of view of a technically savvy user with no prior experience with ebooks, covers some topics about Opus features, operation and maintenance. It is a sort of user diary, a collection of notes of a user learning about the device and ebooks. It is not a comprehensive usage manual or an introductory guide. Download My Cybook Opus Ebook Reader is available for free download in the following file formats for the most popular e-book reading devices and desktop software: ePubDownload My Cybook Opus Ebook Reader in ePub format forA BOOKEEN,A Apple iPad, Barnes & Noble Nook and other devices compatible with the ePub format.A You can download the ePub format and read it on desktop PCs with the following free software: Adobe Digital Editions for Windows and MacOS X. AnA ePub ebook is a ZIP archive containing other files. The ZIP archive you download should be directly opened with Adobe Digital Editions without further action,A not unzippedA and opened. …

Back in June I covered BarMax, the bar exam test preparation software for iPhone that is the most expensive title in the app store at $999.99. But this is no aI Am Richa. In fact, it costs significantly less than other bar exam test prep software on the market. Whatas more, it actually works: those whoave used the software have been passing bar exams at well above average rates. And now, TechCrunch reports, BarMax is coming to the iPad, in a new version rebuilt from the ground up to look good on the bigger screen. It includes a number of e-book-related enhancements such as the ability to highlight text and make notes and bookmarks. From the screenshots, it looks like a great deal, and law students can buy it and an iPad together for half or less of the cost of its $3,000-$4,000 competitors. Currently the California version is the only one available, but presumably other states will follow. The company has already earned $200,000 in sales from California and New York versions of the iPhone software. (Which, of course, just means a bit over two hundred people bought it, but still itas an impressive monetary figure.) Who would have thought there could be a legitimate reason to charge $1,000 for an iPad app? (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

RTTNews reports that Borders is going to be delaying payments to some publishers as it tries to conserve cash and refinance its debt. After-hours trading saw the companyas stock price decline by over 12%. Borders is experiencing trouble after a third-party review resulted in a decrease in its inventoryas liquidation value. The shrunken assets resulted in lower borrowing power, and unless the company can find more money somewhere, it could be unable to make payments on its existing credit agreements. Things just donat seem to be going well for the major e-book chains. First Barnes & Noble puts itself up for sale, and now Borders faces its own financial crisis. I doubt this is going to be the last big failure of a print-publishing-related industry. And those self-same publishers who have been trying to prop up print bookstores by pricing e-books higher must be feeling like their feeding hand has just been bitten. No matter how much the publishers try to protect bookstores against e-books, itas not going to save them forever. If they donat take a long hard look at how they can streamline their business model (itas insane that their overhead calculations still include the cost of recalling and destroying sometimes more than half of the products they produce!) and help the bookstores do the same, publishers might just find themselves without many outlets other than Amazon to move their merchandise. (I was first alerted to this story by The Digital Reader.) (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

Amazon has turned on the Kindle book lending program, which allows book owner to alenda books to anyone with an email address and a Kindle (or a Kindle app for another device). The conditions are that the loan offer email must be accepted within seven days. Once accepted, the loan lasts for 14 days. Presently only Kindle users resident in the US can initiate the loan. Residents of other countries can accept a loan provided the book is available on the Kindle in their country of residence. Personally I have no problem with the lending feature as it stands but its birth is further evidence that Amazonas terms and conditions arenat worth the e-Ink theyare printed on. That is, theyare binding on a user but Amazon can change them on whim to suit itself. As Chris Walters writes, the day before lending was turned on Amazon aquietly updated the terms and conditions for publishers who use its Digital Text Platform to publish to the Kindle Store. It added section 5.2.2, which explains how the Lending Program works.a aAh,a says someone at Amazon, awe want to have lending for the Kindle but our terms and conditions donat allow it. What can we do?a He doesnat have to scratch his beard for long. He simply opens Amazonas terms and conditions document, bashes out a new section and hits aPublisha. An approach that cavalier is alarming if youare a user of the service because it means the ground can shift beneath your feet at any time. You could, for instance, find that all your titles are suddenly removed for a breach of the terms and conditions, some of which might not have been terms or conditions five minutes ago. Under the now dry but still malleable e-Ink of section 5.2.2, authors and publishers who are on the 35% royalty scheme have the option to opt out of lending (all books are opted in by default). Authors and publishers on the 70% royalty scheme have no choice: this is just another condition of being in the 70% scheme. …

From The Standard: It is back to school again, but the book industry in Kenya is reeling under the effects of skyrocketing paper prices in the world market coupled with low purchasing power for their book titles. Citing rising raw material costs for missed earnings, shrinking profits and frequent change of syllabus texts by the Ministry of Education, publishers are sending a cry to the Government to intervene by giving tax waivers on paper and inputs used to produce school books. Publishers warned that free primary and secondary education goal may be jeopardised by the prohibitive cost of books beyond the reach of many parents and students. But in this challenging environment, where Pan Paper Mills in Webuye , Kenyaas sole manufacturer of paper stopped production, publishers are struggling with strategies to protect their companies a without drastically raising book prices. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

We’re not suprised to read the following OverDrive blog post. Why? Here are four reasons. 1. If you follow the OverDrive Twitter stream you might have noticed several tweets from users about the service being slow. The company noted that downloads were booming and they’re working to add more bandwidth. 2. In [...] (Source: ResourceShelf)

+ How To Lend Kindle Books (via Amazon.com) + “Amazon now lets you “Lend your Kindle books to others” (by Martin Bryant, The Next Web) + “Amazon’s new lending feature is probably going to anger some publishers” (by Chris Walters, TeleRead) + “How Many Kindle Books Can Be Shared?” (by Jason Boog, GalleyCat) [...] (Source: ResourceShelf)

From the press release: Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the worldas largest bookseller, today announced that with millions of NOOK eReading devices sold, the line has become the companyas biggest bestseller ever in its nearly 40-year history. The new NOOKcolor Readeras Tablet, introduced just eight weeks before Christmas, is the companyas number one selling gift of the holiday season. Barnes & Noble also announced that it now sells more digital books than its large and growing physical book business on BN.com, the worldas second largest online bookstore. With its growth across device and NOOKbookaC/ sales over the critical holiday selling season, Barnes & Noble has successfully established itself as a leader in digital reading. Demand for the critically acclaimed NOOKcolor remained high following the productas introduction in late October through the holidays. Sales have continued to exceed the companyas high expectations. … (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

A couple of interesting pieces have surfaced looking at fallout from yesterdayas news of iPad magazine sales declining. On The Next Web, Alex Wilhelm suggests that the iPad might yet asave the struggling world of print,a but that some conditions still have to be met for that to happen. First, price has to be conquered; Wilhelm uses the e-book price debates as an example of how consumers feel digital editions of media should be cheaper than dead trees. Second, distribution needs to be streamlined considerably. aThe idea of having 15 different apps constantly on my iPad screen just to occasionally read a single issue of one (or redownloading a magazine app just to get the one issue that I want to read that year) is impractical and cumbersome.a He also suggests that the decline in sales is linked to a decline in hypeapeople just arenat pushing the magazine apps anymore; theyare no longer the anew new thinga. So interest has also declined. On a related note, Choire Sicha points out that magazines are, essentially, undercutting their own iPad apps because paper subscriptions are so much cheaper than the digital versions. Print magazines have to keep up their circulation rates so they can continue to charge high prices for the advertisements that are their real sources of revenue. As an example, the piece cites a subscription offer for CondA(c) Nastas Traveler of $10 per yearaa discount of almost $50 from the cover price (and including a free gift subscription for a friend as well). It also notes that loyal print subscribers, who already pay for subscriptions, are hardly likely to shell out over and above what they already pay for print to get a digtal version, too. If anything, theyad think, they should be getting this for free, as long as theyave already been paying for print. …

PocketNow has examined patent filings by Barnes & Noble and has some guesses about what they might predict for the future of B&Nas Nook product line. The patent filings suggest future devices to be called aNook Kidsa (previously just the name of B&Nas childrenas e-book store) and aNook2a or aNook 2a. They also note that B&N has changed from just describing goods in some of its patents (the devices themselves) to also describing services along with them (as in the case of aNook Studya, aNook Smarta, and aNook Cooka). And B&N may also be readying an in-store/on-line customer service program called aNooksellersa, which would provide customer service through in-store kiosks, telephone, e-mail, and a website (potentially with a Netflix-style recommendation engine). (Found via Engadget.) (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

Engadget has a report on another Japanese electronics vendor seeking to enter the US e-reader/tablet market. Sharp is going to be bringing its Galapagos tablets to the US in a retooled version that includes 3G data capability. It will also be changing its e-book format from its proprietary XMDF format to the more-widely-used EPUB. The tablet will come in 5.5a and 10.8a sizes, and Sharp is currently seeking content partnerships and plans to have its own e-book store for the US market. It is also reportedly planning to bring the tablets to China, India, and Brazil. Funny: the screen (presumably) from the e-book app depicted in the picture bears a remarkable resemblance to iBooksas interface. Imagine that. The adoption of EPUB is a good sign, but it remains to be seen whether Sharp has a snowballas chance of competing in the rapidly-saturating American tablet and e-reader market. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

Philip Ruppel, president of McGraw-Hill Professional, identifies five eBook trends that will change the future of publishing: Enhanced E-Books Are Coming and Will Only Get Better The Device War Is Nearly Over The $9.99 E-Book Wonat Last Forever The Contextual… (Source: Law Librarian Blog)

Ariadne, no. 65 (2010): Includes: “Developing Infrastructure for Research Data Management at the University of Oxford,” “Moving Researchers across the eResearch Chasm,” “Trust Me, I’m an Archivist: Experiences with Digital Donors,” and other articles. Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 29, no. 4 (2010): Includes “Digital Archival Image Collections: Who Are the Users?” and other articles. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 49, no. 1 (2011): Includes “Google Book Search and Metadata,” “Reclassification in Academic Research Libraries: Is It Still Relevant in an E-book World?,” and other articles. Collection Management 36, no. 1 (2011): Includes “Librarian Roles in Institutional Repository Data Set Collecting: Outcomes of a Research Library Task Force” and other articles. First Monday 15, no. 12 (2010): Includes “The Size Distribution of Open Access Publishers: A Problem for Open Access?” and other articles. IFLA Journal 36, no. 4 (2010): Includes “Non-users’ Evaluation of Digital Libraries: A Survey at the UniversitA degli studi di Milano” and other articles. The Journal of Electronic Publishing 13, no. 3 (2010): Includes “Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholaras Resilience against It,” “OA Repositories: The Researchers’ Point of View,” “Traversing the Book of Mpub: An Agile, Web-first Publishing Model,” and other articles. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42, no. 2 (2011): Includes “Extending ArXiv.org to Achieve Open Peer Review and Publishing,” “Protocols and Challenges to the Creation of a Cross-disciplinary Journal,” and other articles. Krikorian, GaA$?lle, and Amy Kapczynski, eds. …

After playing with Quora for a couple of days, Iam starting to see the appeal of it. The format is clear and easy to use, but a bigger draw is that sometimes questions can be answered by people who actually have involvement with the issues. For example, one person asked, aWhy does Amazon brag incessantly about Kindle sales but refuse to disclose specifics?a And a response came from none other than Vinay Kruvila, whose by-line states he has worked for Amazon for 5 years and is currently its Software Development Manager. He writes: Amazon is an incredibly data-driven company. Every strategic decision at Amazon is backed by a wealth of data, and is associated with precise, measurable goals. Even every day tactical decisions are largely data-driven. If you follow prices of items on Amazon, you’ll see how the discount on a book can rise from 34% to 37%, from one day to the next. When Amazon considers entering new markets, the sales metrics competitors have released (perhaps, foolishly) are a key data-point. When you work at Amazon, you realize how important the numbers are. Releasing Kindle sales numbers would only feed into the hands of Amazon’s competitors; there’s a big difference in knowing that the Kindle is the best selling product ever on Amazon and knowing that Amazon sold X million Kindles in 2010. Amazon believes in taking credit for the impressive things we do in ways that are subtle and sophisticated, without providing data that will help current and potential competitors. While I still wish Amazon would be more forthcoming with its numbers, at least this is one of the best explanations Iave yet seen for why it is not. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

I mentioned last week that the UK government had eliminated its funding for literacy charity Booktrust with the new budget that takes effect in April. In response to public outrage at this decision, The Bookseller reports that the government and Booktrust have released a joint statement saying that the government will acontinue to fund Booktrust book-gifting programmes in the future.a However, critics are still skeptical. Labour leader Ed Miliband calls it only a apartial U-turna (isnat that kind of like being aa little bit pregnanta? A apartial U-turna is just a turn!) and points out that the announcement is rather nonspecific, as it does not say anything about what amount of funding will be provided. Hopefully the government and Booktrust will be able to come to a satisfactory arrangement to keep allowing the program to give books to kids and help support child literacy. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

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