David Rothman

US central government backing for digital library resources, as covered previously by David Rothman, seems to have taken another step forward with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announcing President Barack Obama’s speech on the Open eBooks initiative and the ConnectED Library Challenge. These initiatives, backed by the IMLS and executed by several library and non-profit […]

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David Rothman, former owner of this site, tipped me over the weekend to the fact that the AndroidPIT App Center is being shut down as of the end of next month. Their reason involved the EU and their revised VAT guidelines. This is trouble for users of the Kindle Fire who may have been counting […]

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Note: Although David Rothman posted the article, the author is really Bertel King, Jr. is an SF/fantasy novelist and a journalist. Read about him at the end of his cogent essay. Go here to learn how to start your own cell phone book club. Also check out related essays here and here. In 2008, I […]

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We ran an article last week on Amazon’s announcement of the best-read cities in the United States. Alexandria topped the list. Well, that might not be the whole story. Amazon is using one set of data points to make their determination. But what if we looked at another? TeleRead founder David Rothman has done just […]

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My friend David Rothman posted this NY Times article on Facebook this morning, with the comment ‘good news for TV, bad news for books.’ The article talks about this golden age of cord-cutting, specialty programming (like on Netflix) and high-end cable series, with the following aside: “I was never one of those snobby people who [...]

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I’ve always been a sucker for stories about the history of American pop culture. So when TeleRead founder David Rothman sent me an email last weekend with a subject line that read, “This Was the First Word Processor Ever Used By a Novelist. It Weighed 200 Pounds and Had to Be Brought in Though the [...]

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