Tag: E-book
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Future
I’ve been listening to Douglas Adams at the BBC which has clips from various series he was involved with, and it pointed out how much of a futurist and technologist he was (although one that realised the down side of technology – as he quotes Bran Ferren “”Technology is a word that describes something that…
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Pounded by the Biker Rainbow
From Kindle Cover Disasters, this ‘Firsy Time Gay Paranormal M/M Taboo’ porn raises SO many questions, at the very least how does a rainbow ride a bike or hold the handlebars, let alone wear shades or do other things…Douglas Adams had hyperintelligent shades of the colour blue as an alien lifeform, so maybe rainbows? Err…
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American study finds file sharers buy 30% more music not less
This study’s findings isn’t new nor the first music sharing study to find this fact out. But still the music industry says the bug eyed monster is file sharing and sues it’s most fervent fans for sharing music which actually leads to more sales, not less. This has been proved also in other digital markets…
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The Pirate’s Dilemma
It seems like music the book selling model is changing – Boing Boing has had a lot of posts recently that support the fairly obvious theory that giving away free e-books actually increases sales (it makes total sense, try before you buy always increases sales, and like CDs sometimes you want the physical object, more…