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Nebraska library adopts CC

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Mark one small victory for supporters of Creative Commons, the alternative licensing protocol that gives authors more freedom to dictate restrictions on their work. As reported on the Nebraska Library Commission blog, several CC titles ... Read More »

February 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

No more bubble envelopes

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New books are not particularly fragile. Everyone knows that. In fact, that's one of the big reasons why paper-and-ink texts are still preferred by such a wide margin over breakable, expensive-to-replace e-books and e-readers. So ... Read More »

February 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Book prices for pundits

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As New York Times critic Dwight Garner highlights on his blog, Abebooks is reporting on its website that collectible editions of Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father, the Democrat hopeful's 1995 autobiography, have sold through ... Read More »

January 8, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling