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Archive for the ‘Books’ Category

July 16th, 2008

Here Comes Everybody

After hearing Clay Shirky’s brilliant speech at the Web 2.0 Expo, I just had to grab his first book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations.
I wasn’t disappointed.
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By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment

March 11th, 2008

Publishers Dropping Audiobook DRM

The music industry is dropping DRM, and now the audiobook industry is following suit. The best part is, they’re not acting based on a trend. They’re acting on actual data.
Publishers, like the music labels and movie studios, stuck to D.R.M. out of fear that pirated copies would diminish revenue. Random House tested the justification for […]

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August 20th, 2007

Everything is Miscellaneous

The revolutionary fire of The Cluetrain Manifesto meets the critical thinking of The Long Tail. Cluetrain coauthor David Weinberger is back to blow your mind again by telling you that Everything is Miscellaneous. From Plato and Aristotle to Google and Amazon, prepare to rethink the very order of things on the emerging Earth.
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July 18th, 2007

Last Harry Potter Book Leaked Online

Only muggles wait for other muggles to put information on dead trees. Wizards use the Web. Four days before publication, the last Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has been leaked online. It’s just a set of photos right now, but rest assured fans will transcribe it the same way they transcribed […]

By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment

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