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  1. Hachette says most of its books will support text-to-speech http://bit.ly/14Jy35 (via bookseller.com mail) Good precedent for big publishing2:57 AM Jul 3rd from bit.ly
  2. Bridgestone e-paper looks very promising http://bit.ly/18IqIx9:17 AM Jul 2nd from bit.ly
  3. Barnes & Noble get behind the $10 ebook price point http://bit.ly/g6Cmr2:48 AM Jul 2nd from bit.ly
  4. Kindle's progress in Germany snags. ireaderreview.com: http://bit.ly/gcfT2 Martyn Daniels: http://bit.ly/18H9HF Munsey: http://bit.ly/17Mh7m3:08 PM Jul 1st from bit.ly
  5. Curation problems (and possible solutions) for the flood of titles in the Kindle store http://bit.ly/4zLUN3:02 PM Jul 1st from bit.ly
  6. BookGlutton + Random House = author discussing book with readers pre-release http://bit.ly/1BdOuA Great to see this kind of thing happening.2:04 PM Jul 1st from bit.ly
  7. Joe Wikert: "As much as I hate the Kindle's closed nature there's no arguing with the results." http://bit.ly/uYteY Nice piece.2:01 PM Jul 1st from bit.ly
  8. Gladwell on 'Free' http://bit.ly/TjGR7 Information may want to be free, but it can't travel free. (Me: Free in is the eye of the beholder.)10:11 AM Jul 1st from bit.ly
  9. Borders UK launches £189 e-book reader http://bit.ly/UawWB9:37 AM Jun 30th from bit.ly
  10. Scott Pack: "We are kidding ourselves if we think we can charge the same for an e-book as we do for a print copy" http://bit.ly/waj482:57 AM Jun 30th from bit.ly
  11. Excellent post at ireaderreview.com on the potential for crowdsourcing curation with the Kindle http://bit.ly/m2uM36:20 AM Jun 28th from bit.ly
  12. eSchoolNews.com reckons the Cool-er Reader (http://www.coolreaders.com) could be appealing to schools http://bit.ly/vSuD29:25 AM Jun 26th from bit.ly
  13. Nice overview of library–ebook mechanisms RT @jafurtado: ...An Interview With a Librarian, by Nico Vreeland http://is.gd/1dsXP Via teleread2:37 PM Jun 25th from twhirl
  14. Great alpha stuff here RT @jwikert I can't wait to read this book by @nickbilton … "must read" for anyone in publishing http://bit.ly/1dZWQa2:13 PM Jun 25th from twhirl
  15. The ugly side of Kindle DRM http://bit.ly/Ivbq9 (via Nico Vreeland's Wednesday links http://bit.ly/4TUDJ)1:07 PM Jun 25th from bit.ly
  16. Super geek-cool CSS from Keith Fahlgren at ePub Zen Garden RT @liza: Launched @abdelazer's awesome ePub Zen Garden style http://bit.ly/ELmOK12:21 PM Jun 25th from twhirl
  17. The Guardian lists Waterstones' top-10 ebook sellers since Sept; 8 of 10 are crime/thriller http://bit.ly/4rl2Dr2:36 AM Jun 25th from bit.ly
  18. Great post on GBS by @personanondata, arguing there are fewer orphans than suggested, and anti-GBS segment a minority http://bit.ly/14BbrO2:16 PM Jun 24th from bit.ly
  19. Really worth reading. RT @Personanondata: Comprehensive defense of Google Book Search Agreement. http://bit.ly/1416BY8:55 AM Jun 24th from twhirl
  20. ScrollMotion + LibreDigital = loads more content for the iPhone http://bit.ly/PlERQ (iPhone = epublishing's iPod moment? Anticlimax, that.)2:19 PM Jun 23rd from bit.ly
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