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Archive for October 25th, 2001

Thursday, October 25, 2001

overt Stealth Press forecast

Roy Smith, vice president of Marketing at
Stealth Press:”Our expectations are that e-books will ultimately occupy a market share equivalent to audio books (roughly 5 percent),” he says. “The fact is that recreational reading does not work off of a screen (handheld or desktop). E-books are perfect for technical or reference works that need to be constantly updated. While we agree that the publishing industry is in need of a major overhaul, we do not agree that the ‘container’ of the literature is the problem.” from
“E-Books: Boom or Bust”

FotB hands off store items to UICB

Bookbinding kit revenues will now be directed to the benefit of the University of Iowa Center for the Book. A new and expanded kit line is in development.

FotB is power vacuume

The first 25 hits from a Google search for Future of the Codex Book came back FotB.

weblogs unite!

Piss on them both; both the USA and the Taliban they are both locked in some stupid struggle. Its time to do a new nation with folks that can manage themselves and information er, librarianbloggers.

“Our values, in practice, are not “freedom” and “self-determination” as some would believe, these supposed values are really a lifestyle, bought and paid for, in part, by our self-serving foreign policy.” Craig

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