This week was super busy in the bookish techy world. Too busy perhaps. While it was not easy to pare down my list of links, I’ve done my best. There should be something here for everyone – from lovers of Snooki to fans of Babylonian poetry — there’s even a nice passel of posts for those who want a preview of what yours truly has been spending all her time working on of late: TOC Frankfurt. Read on!
Sometimes you just have to laugh
- The name of her forthcoming novel: A Shore Thing….
- Google Blacklist – Words That Google Instant Doesn’t Like
Surveys and data and research and stuff
- Who Uses e-Readers? What a Slew of Surveys Tell Us About Who Reads Digitally
- Tablet and Netbook Shipments Expected to Soar 41% in 2011
- Survey: Children like e-books, parents not so much
From the wonderful world of retailing
- Amazon Launches Facebook e-Commerce Store
- Infinity Publishing Signs Agreement With Sony to Distribute eBooks on Reader Store(TM)
- Distribution Is Pain Point for Mobile Apps
Inspirational deep thoughts and actions
If, like me, you’ve grown weary of the endless supply of whiny articles lamenting the death of the printed book and the increasingly hard knock life of the author — take a break from all that and check out some folks and projects that will make you happy to be a part of these bookish techy times:
- Make The Revolution – Anil Dash
- 2000 Years Since Anyone’s Heard Babylonian Poetry Read Aloud
- Digitizing the Personal Library