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Top-selling fiction books in 2008

Rank Title Author Format Publisher Publication Date 1 The Shack William P. Young Trade Paperback Hachette Book Group 7/1/2008 2 The Appeal John Grisham Hardcover Random House 1/1/2008 3 The Host Stephenie Meyer Hardcover Hachette Book Group 5/1/2008 4 The Friday NightKnitting...

Tags: Hardcover, NB

Blog posts 2008-12-25

Top-selling books in 2008

Rank Title Author Format Publisher Publication Date 1 A New Earth Eckhart Tolle Trade Paperback Penguin Books 2/1/2008 2 The Last Lecture Randy Pausch Hardcover Hyperion 4/1/2008 3 Eat Pray Love Elizabeth Gilbert Trade Paperback Penguin Books 2/1/2007 4 Three Cups of...

Tags: Hardcover, NB

Blog posts 2008-12-23

Additional Resources

B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary

In addition to this posting, please visit this clarifications posting to get the whole picture. It would be nice to say, as Matt Miller has, that the e-book and e-reader market was revolutionized today. It simply got more interesting. A careful reading of the $259 Nook's...

Tags: E-reader, Device, E-book, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Inc., Wireless, B&N, Nook, Cover-flow, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Barnes and Noble e-book reader 'Nook' to be unveiled today

What is the difference between this and the Que?RE: Barnes and Noble e-book reader 'Nook' to be unveiled todayWell, the Kindle is still pretty pricy for me. I was in Toys R Us the other day and they had a Sony e-reader (1st time I've ever ACTUALLY seen one....

Tags: E-books, Kindle DX, e-book, Nook, Barnes & Noble Inc., e-book Reader, Kindle2, pricing strategy

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

SpellbookMaster 2.2.1 (Mac)

During those intense roleplaying sessions it is all too easy to lose time browsing through the big, hardcover books looking for spell descriptions. SpellbookMaster makes it easy to find spells fast. Search spells by name, class, level, domain and more. Create spell collections by dragging spells from the list...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Spell, Petteri Kamppuri, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Desktops, Internet, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-08-30

CDs still sell: Who are these people?!?

who buys cds? why buy cds?own/control music no DRM issues!control quality/type of rip (mp3, wma, bit speed etc)!if you want the entire cd's music why buy track by track?RE: CDs still sell: Who are these people?!?I buy um. Always nice to have the real thing around. They often have...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, CD, Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

Cut. Scan. Read.

Google books has nothing on me: for months now I've been cutting the pages out of old books, scanning them into PDFs, storing them on a hard drive and recycling the paper. OCR makes the text searchable and selectable. Most important: I'll never schlep them up...

Tags: Adobe PDF, Minute, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Google begins its rumble with Amazon

Google begins its rumble with AmazonLet 'em duke it out foreverFormat wars delay acceptance, so as a diehard hardcover aficionado, I'll be cheering all the way.So early adopters get punished again, as it should be.I've been saying from the start that we don't need no stinking hardware to read...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-06-02

SpellbookMaster 2.2 (Mac)

During those intense roleplaying sessions it is all too easy to lose time browsing through the big, hardcover books looking for spell descriptions. SpellbookMaster makes it easy to find spells fast. Search spells by name, class, level, domain and more. Create spell collections by dragging spells from the list...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Spell, Petteri Kamppuri, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Desktops, Internet, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-05-06

All ebook readers must tear down this wall

All ebook readers must tear down this wallPublishers don't get itGood post Dana.The publishing industry is having a hard time. they don't understand what direction to go in.But the more they tighten their grip, the more sand will run out between their fingers.JamesMy preferred format?Paper. Hard or soft back...

Tags: E-books, INTERNET, Construction, Branding, hardcover book, ebook reader, e-book, wall, media

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

Amazon plans big screen Kindle: Textbook margins are the real aim not saving newspapers

Amazon plans big screen Kindle: Textbook margins are the real aim not saving newspapersPlus, how would this work for...I recall in grad school often having several text books open at once on my desk as I wrote my thesis, worked on projects, and studied. How would you keep multiple things...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Amazon.com Inc., big screen, Textbook margin, textbook

Discussion threads 2009-05-04

Free Google content still not enough for E-readers

Free Google content still not enough for E-readersTextbooks would be awesome!As a university student, a huge chunk of my expenses each semester comes from buying textbooks: depending on the teacher and the semester, I can be looking at dropping up to $1000 on textbooks that are technically only useful for...

Tags: E-books, textbook, e-Reader, FREE Google

Discussion threads 2009-03-20

Kindle Economics 2: Why Amazon should not be Apple, and Jeff Bezos is not Steve Jobs

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos presents the Kindle 2 to a packed auditorium. What sort of product rollout does this remind you of? So the Kindle 2 has now made its debut, with everything you'd expect of a gee-whiz product launch -- a packed auditorium filled with media types, a...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, E-books, 3G, Wireless LANs, Sales Strategy, Storage, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Sales, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-02-09

Kindle Economics

A few weeks ago I evaluated Amazon's Kindle. While I really liked the device, the big problem I had with it was that at its current price of $359.00 it was too expensive at this point for mass consumer adoption. I also had a number of...

Tags: Cost, Semester, Amazon.com Inc., Textbook, Amazon Kindle, E-books, Microsoft Excel, Personal Technology, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-16

America loses its moral technologist: Michael Crichton

America loses its moral technologist: Michael CrichtonThank YouSeven years ago I was applying to colleges. A common essay prompt was "Write about a particular work of literature or author who has had an influence on your life and describe that influence."I wrote about Michael Crichton. I argued many...

Tags: Michael Crichton

Discussion threads 2008-11-06

And the calculator saga continues

I spent the afternoon at a local orchard with my wife and my youngest son. The other kids were buried in homework and/or video games, but it's apple season here in New England, so off the three of us went on a beautiful fall day. The orchard was...

Tags: Ice Cream, Games, Taxes, Corporate Communications, Free Trade, Construction, Personal Technology, Financial Planning, Finance, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-05

Nyko Charge Base 360

Nyko recently released a dual controller charging solution for the PlayStation 3, the Charge Base 2. But unlike the internal and nonremoveable batteries of the PS3's DualShock 3 and Sixaxis controllers, Xbox 360 pads have detachable batteries. So the company's design for a similar 360 product required it to rethink...

Tags: Engineering, Game players, Nyko Charge Base 360, battery, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360

Product reviews 2008-06-18

Arthur C. Clarke: All These Worlds Are Yours

For every person, there are personalities who’s influence and life’s work that can shape one’s imagination and destiny. For some people, they are world leaders, musicians, poets, and philosophers. For me, the Grand Masters of Science Fiction float to the very top of that august group â€" and...

Tags: Work, Computer, Productivity, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-03-19

Kata DR-467 Digital Rucksack

Lately, I've been obsessed with camera backpacks. It's not easy to find one that does everything I need, since I use backpacks to haul all different size SLRs, from the smallest entry-level, to the largest, integrated-vertical-grip pro bodies. Kata's DR-467 Digital Rucksack proved to be a very versatile bag and...

Tags: Memory, Notebooks, Kata DR-467 Digital Rucksack, compartment, memory card

Product reviews 2008-03-12

Asus' 8.9" Eee draws crowds at CeBIT

Asus' 8.9" Eee draws crowds at CeBITYou can't buy anything this size or close for double the priceYou can't buy anything this size or close for double the price. If you want a small portable device, this is the best you can do under $400 or even $800. ...

Tags: Operating systems, Notebooks, ASUS

Discussion threads 2008-03-07