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According to The Bookseller : In an internal memo seen by The Bookseller, Richard Charkin, executive director of Bloomsbury, said for backlist titles the company would maintain “e-books are an integral part of volume rights” and “should be commissioned, edited, designed, promoted, sold, and accounted together with print editions—any split of these rights is counterproductive and wrong for all concerned”. He added: “The non-compete clause in most contracts precludes a third party issuing an e-book.” The article says that Penguin’s chief executive, John Makinson, has decided to refuse books if digital rights are not granted.
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Bloomsbury and Penguin join battle on ebook royalties
WILMINGTON, NC–(Marketwire – 08/02/10) – Global Earth Energy, Inc. (OTC.BB: GLER – News ) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary RCI Solar, Inc., a leading North American provider of renewable energy solutions for the residential, commercial and industrial markets, has signed an affiliate marketing agreement with Aqua Solar Limited, a premier provider of solar thermal and solar photo …
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Global Earth Energy Enters Into Multi-Year, Multi-Million Dollar Contract With Aqua Solar Limited
News Corp is considering launching a digital news business targeting users of e-readers such as the Kindle and iPad, according to reports.
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News Corp looks at launching e-reader division
Good Gear Guide posts an IDG News Service report that Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of the One Laptop Per Child initiative, has sent a note congratulating the Indian government on the $35 tablet it announced a few days ago, and has also offered India full access to OLPC hardware and software technology to help in manufacturing it. I can certainly understand why Negroponte made the offer
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Negroponte offers OLPC tech to makers of India’s $35 tablet
Markus Dohle, chief executive of Random House, was interviewed by German magazine Der Spiegel about the changes he sees e-books making to the book market. (Reuters has an English translation .) In terms of e-books as a percentage of Random House’s total bookselling revenue: “We’re at 8 percent in the United States currently, it rose by leaps and bounds,” Dohle told Der Spiegel.
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Random House CEO expects US e-book revenue to pass 10% next year
A recent exchange on a message board I frequent led me to a surprising realization: there is a demand for ebook readers even for very young children, and it might not be a device maker that wins this niche at all. It might be a peripheral maker. Here’s why.
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iPod Touch or Kindle for kids: extravagant or practical?
Dr. Richard Baron, a Philadelphia internist who’s unusual in that he’s both a private-practice clinician and a well-published and -respected academic (he was recently ABIM Chair ), has been mixing it up in the pages of the New England Journal. To readers of this blog, it’ll be useful armchair review: not just because the theme of generalist clinicians’ decline should concern us, but because the blog itself comes into play! The topic of the day: why primary care doctors are in trouble
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Primary Care and the HC Renewal RUC-kus
In these days of modern times, many aspects of life get complicated. You learn things, wonder about things, read things.
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Science- the cause and cure of all of our problems
At the Summit at Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif., Tony Perkins, founder of AlwaysOn, moderates a discussion about the state of journalism in the Digital Age with Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, Quentin Hardy of Forbes, and Robert Scoble of Scobelizer. The
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Did the Web kill journalism, and will the iPad bring it back?
Now that Justin Avery Anderson’s soft granola has made it to the shelves of Whole Foods and Central Market, he hopes to take it all the way to the White House reports The Dallas Morning News . “I have not contacted the White House, but that’s the plan for the next few weeks,” the 23-year-old says.
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Soft Granola Leads Entrepreneur On The Trail To Success
We are told over and over again by all the top internet marketers that the money is in the list. In other words you need to build a list of people who are willing to buy goods or services that you recommend to them and the bigger your list the more likely you are to make sales.
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Some E-mail Methods to Use for Your Online Business Promotions
There must have been an enormous sigh of relief among BP employees — from the front line to the boardroom — on Tuesday, when their CEO Tony Hayward’s finally resigned. However he was perceived — as villain, incompetent or, scapegoat — what’s clear is that Hayward was failing spectacularly as their leader almost from the outset of the oil spillage in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Handling the Fall-out from a Failing Leader
Many of you probably caught this post on PBS.org about content farms last week . When I read it, I found it very interesting that Demand Media turned down the opportunity to be interviewed for the piece. Usually, they can’t be tamed when it comes to spouting their really cool: Hey, we never said we were journalists… but look at our awesome brand of service journalism (not to be confused with actual journalism because we’ve added another word IN FRONT of journalism.
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Demand Media Strikes Back at PBS and Writers Everywhere – Yawn
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Note from WorkAtHomeTruth.com – This is an important advance in helping consumers enjoy a safer shopping experience – especially considering how elaborate some recent scams have become such as the one explained in this writeup of NewsDaily7.com . 7/20/2010 Press release from Verisign: Now Every Business Using VeriSign SSL Can Drive Trust From Search to Browse to Buy MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–(Marketwire – July 20, 2010) – VeriSign, Inc.
“Art is only art when it is synonymous with living.” Mid-century designer Alexander Girard said this and he is the inspiration for this DIY project. I recently went up in the attic looking for a sun-faced poster that I had as a kid. It was a popular ’60s design by Girard
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10 ways to repurpose an old picture frame
Via A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor comes this bit of Genius: How to Answer Nurses’ Questions: An Algorithm for New Interns . Go, read, laugh. You’ll enjoy it.
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How to Answer a Nurses’ Questions: Funniest thing you’ll see this week
Although some publications glossed over the uncertainty in announcing the first findings of the planet-hunting Kepler mission, researchers say the overall point remains true: Earth-like planets (meaning that they’re small and rocky, not that they have aliens writing blogs about science) are not only not rare–they’re the most common type of planet in our galaxy. The first intimations of this news came out a few days ago in reports like the Daily Mail’s, which blared that NASA’s planet-hunting …
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Kepler’s Early Results Suggest Earth-Like Planets Are Dime-a-Dozen | 80beats
(Image Credit: Creative Commons photo by grahamking ) We live in a short attention span society. Between the hours most of us spend in front of the television and the time we spend online, our ability to concentrate is practically under siege on a daily basis
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Seven yoga moves to improve concentration
Starting at 11:45 am Eastern Time, Markus Allen will be revealing his number 1 secret to ranking in Google. When you listen (live or at playback) he’ll give you his step-by-step checklist to force Google to make your blog or webpage #1 ASAP. So what do you need to prepare to take advantage of the show
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Google Secrets Revealed – This #1 Secret To Ranking In Google