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Advice on how to make simple but effective book trailers with minimum technology

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A list of f fun videos out there about books and reading by Larry Ferlazzo

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This post is part of “How We Will Read,” an interview series exploring the future of books from the perspectives of publishers, writers, and intellectuals.

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Post from joycevalenza. The Pew Internet & American Life Project released its new study, The Rise of e-Reading (Apr 2012) .Here are some of the key findings from the Summary of the report by researchers by Lee Rainie, Kathryn Zickuhr, Kristen Purcell, Mary Madden and Joanna Brenner, who surveyed of 2,986 Americans ages 16 and older between November and December 2011:

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Check the edcenter area at Bookemon. Makes nice looking interactive “books” –and you do NOT need to pay or print them. (Here is a review: http://www.teachersfirst.com/single.cfm?id=10404). I think multiple students can collaborate. I don’t like the commercial “look” of the site, but the tool itself is easy and free.

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A look at 2011's most compelling science books, spanning everything from medicine to physics to quantum mechanics

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The 100 "Greatest Books for Kids," ranked by Scholastic Parent & Child magazine:

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The post by Bev Humphrey, a Literacy, School Libraries and Technology Consultant, to the Guardian's children's books pages article by a former librarian, Ellen Ainsworth, entitled 10 books to help boost young boys' reading. They are good suggestions, (Harry Potter, Alex Rider etc.) but Bev considers them somewhat obvious and has countered with her own post My 10 books to help boost young people's reading.(NB She also took issue with the restriction to just boys.)

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This website offers forums and advance copies of books from the publisher, Random House

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A great flowchart that tries to illustrate the conceptual relationship between various SF and Fantasy titles.

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Bookboon is a free service offering free full-length textbooks, travel guides, and business books in digital form. The textbook section of Bookboon offers more than 500 digital textbooks. On Bookboon there are etextbooks available for twenty-five subjects, but the bulk of the etextbooks are focused on Economics, Engineering, and IT.

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From Publishers Weekly "Library Journal released the first issue of a quarterly publication called Patron Profiles. Based on surveys and data collected from library users across the country, the first issue—on libraries and e-book usage—indicates that libraries are a powerful economic engine for the book business."

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Free children's books that have become classics/favourites and you can use with interactive whiteboards, projectors, etc. Permission granted for non-commercial use.

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Site offers free audiobooks to download

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Article that looks at a study that shows it is not al "doom and gloom" for books

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Ebook search engine to find free ebooks and compare ebook prices for the Kindle, iPhone, Nook, Sony Reader etc.

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