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TeleRead Editor Chris Meadows discuss this past week’s news with staffer Susan Lulgjuraj, another veteran e-booker (photo). Ask them questions and share your own opinions. And remember, you can hear the program later on demand if you can’t enjoy it now. Details here and here (TalkShoe link). Related: Excerpts from Chris’s new book, A Geek’s Guide to Indianapolis: […]

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Chris covered BookLamp last year, and he wasn’t impressed. Last month, the news broke that Apple had bought BookLamp in April. Honestly, I didn’t pay much attention to the story because, although my books are available there, I don’t really think of Apple as having a credible ebook store. Although, right now, it’s probably more credible than […]

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I’d been meaning to wipe my Nook HD and install Cyanogen Mod 11 for some time now, but the process intimidated me. Then Chris went and created a user friendly guide. A little more than a week ago, I got up the nerve to give it a try. It worked (after a couple of heart-in-the-throat […]

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Chris had an excellent post recently about an author wanting to sue over a one-star review. A few days ago I discovered I had some ratings on my books on Goodreads. Both these events got me to thinking. The ratings on my books are okay. I have a 4-star, a few 3-stars and a 2-star. […]

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Chris has already covered the Digital Book World article summarizing recent Codex Group research showing that 86% of eBook buyers buy from only one retailer. But I had a few thoughts he didn’t cover. The article posited that the ease of infrastructure was the number one reason people stayed with a particular retailer, and that made [...]

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Well, it might have been a better headline to say that Amazon is buying my home town paper, but it wouldn’t be true. Jeff Bezos is buying The Washington Post, to the tune of $250 million in cash. How many suitcases is that again? Chris covered the basic story yesterday, but he’s not a Washingtonian, [...]

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