From the press release: Tizra announced at the annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses here today that Columbia University Press was the latest in a series of prestigious organizations that have selected Tizra’s web based software to distribute and sell electronic versions of their books and other content online.

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Tizra signs Columbia University Press

Dave Navarro wrote recently that worrying about what you’re doing (or not doing) is the surest way to keep you poor and unsuccessful. It’s a cracking article with a heap of good points, one of them being that the key difference in the way successful people operate is that they see failure as an integral part of the process of achieving success. That’s true

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5 Reasons Why Trying to be Successful Will Keep You Poor

Librarian in Black has a superb article about the difficulty of using ebooks in a library setting. Here is an excerpt. I heartily recommend that you read the full thing.

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I am a frustrated ebook (non) user, says Librarian in Black

An article about this in the Bookseller today. US publishers are evidently seeking rights to territories that are considered the domain of UK publishers in lieu of global deals, says the article. India, Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa are the contested territories right now.

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US chips away at UK export markets – good for readers? bad for authors?

O’Reilly’s Tools of Change site has an interesting essay by former Google Deputy General Counsel Alexander Macgillivray on copyright issues that need to be addressed for e-books and other digital media. The interesting thing is that many of the issues he brings up are not the ones commonly argued between copyrighters and copyfighters

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Former Google counsel on needed copyright reforms in the digital age

Each Friday I pick my favorite stories from the previous week. It is purely a subjective judgement. Check out new media discovery site – Critical Mob Oxford Dictionaries Online arrives Amazon Encore: Amazon’s gradual change, Konrath’s publishing decision Kobo growing pains – user issues and my prescription by Joanna New iPhone/iPad app from National Library of Information: WISER (Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders) USB typewriter connected to an iPad – I want one of these Teaching with the iPad – first days by Joanna Send selected full text ebooks from Open Library to a Kindle with only a couple of clicks Digg us

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Based on a survey with over 3600 graduate and undergraduate students worldwide, IBM’s recently released Global Student Study 2010 compares side by side the value system, mindset, and management style of future leaders with those of current generation CEOs. The findings supplement insights from their 2010 CEO Study, which we discussed in our last blog post . If you are leading a function or a business unit, you should read carefully what these students have to say.

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Leadership In the Age of Scarcity

Can Kevin Costner’s centrifuge–a device to separate oil from water at up to 200 gallons per minute–clean up the Deep Horizon spill? We reported on Costner’s clean-up gadget back in May when he convinced the Coast Guard and BP to test his technology, and now comes news that BP has ordered 32 of Costner’s devices to try out in the Gulf. It sure makes for easy reporting; Costner’s handsome mug is certainly more appealing than oil-soaked sea life

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BP to Kevin Costner: We’ll Take 32 of Your Oil Clean-up Machines | 80beats

Brian Peterson posts on a fascinating West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals decision involving the use of social media between a juror and defendant and the issue of disclosure of such connections during voir dire .

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Reversal of Conviction Because Undisclosed MySpace Friendship Between Defendant and Juror

If you’re looking for ways to stretch your budget, checking all your insurance options is an important step. Consider this: If you’re over 50 and have gone for quite some time without an accident, it’s quite likely that – even after any “rebates” you receive from your auto insurer, that additional savings could be yours

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Reduce Overhead By Updating Car Insurance Quotes

On June 13 our own Joanna published an article entitled Kobo growing pains – user issues and my prescription , in which she detailed some of the problems she had with the new Kobo Reader.

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Kobo Vice President replies to issues raised by TeleRead’s Joanna

In other news Thursday, rescue workers searched for dozens of workers underground after an explosion rocked the San Fernando Mine in Amaga, Colombia, killing 16. Also, European Union leaders adopted new sanctions against Iran and its nuclear program.

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News Wrap: Coal Mine Explosion Killls At Least 16 in Colombia

Filed under Blogging, Freelance Writing , Jobs , Latest News · Tagged with companies hiring freelance writers, how to get a paid blogging job, job board, online writing gigs, paid blogging jobs, telecommute freelance writing jobs , …

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Freelance Writing Jobs for June 17, 2010 : Working Writers

The chance that the News Corp bid for BSkyB will be followed by a $2 billion offer for SKY Network Television of New Zealand was enough to have Macquarie’s Auckland-based analysts run for the abacus yesterday.

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News Corp and SKY TV

The Washington Post picks a good moment to profile Scott Rasmussen, the pollster who’s hitting the big-time, even if the old-school polling crowd doesn’t like it. As cash-strapped newspapers and television networks struggle to meet the growing demand for polls, Rasmussen, 54, is supplying reams of cheap, automated surveys that will measure — and maybe move — opinion, especially…

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Audit D.C. Notes: Ouija Boards, Older 99ers, Making Lemonade

Steve Hayden, Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide; Chris Actis, Senior VP, MediaVest USA; Shiv Sigh, VP, Razorfish; Chris Wilkes, VP, Hearst Magazines Digital Media; Randall Rothenberg, President & CEO, Interactive Advertising Bureau, Moderator Hayden: size does matter and the iPad is a content machine. Question: when buy an ad on Wired does this have to be approved by Apple and he won’t get back any info from them on the ad results? Apple will always provide the best user experience.

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Untethered – The Bottom Line: the role of advertising

Peter Davis, President McGraw-Hill Education; Brian Murray, President & CEO HarperCollins Publishers; Carolyn Reidy, President and CEO, Simon & Schuster; David Steinberger, President & CEO, Perseus Books Group; Tom Turvey, Director, Strategic Partnerships, Google; Peter Osnos, Founder and Editor-at-Large, PublicAffairs Books Davis: at McGraw only a small part of business plays by the traditional rules of publishing. The educational part is very healthy. Sold Business Week because of desire to reduce exposure to advertising based revenues.

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Untethered – The future of book publishing

Trip Adler, CEO, Scribd; Ryan Charles, Mobile Product Leader, Zagat Survey; Mark Coker, CEO, Smashwords; Brad Inman, CEO, Vook; Josh Koppel, Founder, ScrollMotion; Kevin Kelleher, Blogger, The Big Money Adler: Scribd: social publishing and reading. Over 50 million monthly users.

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Untethered: Meet the apps

Vivian Schiller, President and CEO, NPR; Jacob Weisberg, Chairman, The Slate Group, interviewer iPhone and Android apps very successful and so needed to do a good iPad app. iPhone app looked terrible when blown up so had to build it from scratch.

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Untethered – Live interview with President of NPR

The WeReward App for iPhone helps businesses and rewards app users.

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WeReward App for iPhone helps businesses and rewards app users