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Today’s links of interest:

• Big ‘Tinkers’ Shipment Rolling Next Week
  Hoping demand for Tinkers meets supply of 100,000 units. That would be awesome. Book was happily available for Kindle users — why not ready ready in EPUB for others?

Today’s links of interest:

• Books as Weather: Or, Help Me Out
  Genius. Also, useful.
• ‘Who I Am’: Poetry Not Wasted On The Young : NPR
  It’s National Poetry Month, and we were thrilled to hear this NPR story. Yay for Sourcebooks!
• A New Source for eReader Data Says 5 Million eReaders Shipped in 2009
  Entity that tracks display screens for ereaders (and you thought you were specialized!) indicates a large number of readers shipped in 2009 (as opposed to sold). Kindle shipments estimated at 3.3 million. (PubLunch, membership required)

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Today’s links of interest:

• Apple approves Pulitzer winner’s iPhone app; cartoonist now free to mock the powerful on cell phones
  Ah caprice…we love you so.
• Writers: Making a Living Off of Kindle?
  Author J.A. Konrath talks numbers and specifics in this Galleycat interview. While his approach may not work for everyone, he is doing quite well by anyone’s standards.
• Danielle Steel’s embezzling former assistant will go to jail
  Justice. Served. And all that.
• iPad vs. Kindle: Who’s the better e-Reader?
  Interesting test, with conclusive answer: it depends.

Today’s links of interest:

• Rethinking the Marketing Mix: Metadata as Marketing Priority
  Great piece by Laura Dawson looking at the various types of book marketing efforts and how good metadata contributes to the process.
• Amazon Sues North Carolina over Demand for Customer Records
  States, with budgets strapped and more, will be pushing harder and harder for this type of information. Good on Amazon.
• Press Release: Macmillan Joins Edelweiss
  Very cool news. Have heard nothing but kudos for Edelweiss.
• Our new partners: Barnes Noble Review
  Salon continues to enter into partnerships, adding Barnes Noble Review as a supplement to their regular book reviews. Also, BN will be the only place Salon links when pointing readers to places to buy the book.

Today’s links of interest:

• Planes, Trains, Automobiles, and Boats, or, How I Got to the London Book Fair
  Our friend Peter Ginna gets his inner Phileas Fogg on.
• McSweeney’s Explains Its Salon.com Agreement
  Less cash (no cash?), more exposure.
• Payment Models
  Joe Wikert reconsiders micropayments in the era of the iPad.

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Today’s links of interest:

• Amazon Says Agency Model eBooks Are Subject to State Sales Tax
  Seriously, our unintended consequences file is bulging. This goes into the sub-folder no surprises here.
• Chris Anderson of emWired/em Calls Richard Nash a Genius
  There’ll be no living with the man now!
• Zondervan Lays Off 30
  Wish Zondervan had left the religion out of its announcement. It’s a business decision, pure and simple, and people are losing their jobs.

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Today’s links of interest:

• Israel Bans iPads
  Headline overstates problem. U.S. iPads only. Oh. Right.
• Our new partnership with McSweeney’s
  Nifty. McSweeney’s and Salon, working together.
• Word of mouth helped propel Mass. novelist to Pulitzer
  Not to disagree with our friend Michael Coffey, but the success of Tinkers is a classic example of social media, albeit the old fashioned kind (with a whole lot of online pushing going on, too!).

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Today’s links of interest:

• What Apple needs to learn about selling books
  At Salon, Laura Miller picks up on one of the issues we identified with the iBooks store: discovery is a challenge, and bad (or missing) metadata ain’t helping. If Apple is serious about being a contender in the world of ebooks (who knows?), then it needs to get the basics right.
• What social media means
  A look at how content producers can be short-sighted about new modes of communication: In this medium, best practices emanate from, well, practice.
• Upcoming ‘Twlight’ eBook More Expensive Than Hardcover
  Sigh. That is all.

Today’s links of interest:

• New publishing venture – Harvardwood – uses iPad apps
  Hmm, a Harvard alumni association starts a publishing company. Very interesting, very fun.
• U.S. Book Sales to Increase on E-Books, Goldman Says (Update1)
  Speculation. Would love to see more meat behind these numbers (are the increases due to repeat purchases mixed with new purchases?).
• Bantam Dell Publisher Nita Taublib Steps Down
  Wow. Considering the authors she’s brought to prominence, this is a huge change for Random House.
• The Tunnel by Jenny Offill – Single Sentence Animation by Electric Literature
  In which Electric Literature continues to be more fun than a barrel of monkeys (one presumes barrels of monkeys are as much fun as advertised). Watch. Delight.

Today’s links of interest:

• Agency model is more complicated than it seems – the sales tax issue
  At Teleread, a seasonal post on a new issue.
• 300 years of copyright
  Happy birthday, copyright!
• Why iPad Adaptation is an Uphill Battle for Incumbent Publishers
  Or, rethink the message to take advantage of the medium.

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