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List of places to find books to read. Doesn't include the Open Library but has some other ideas of places to look.

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Follow up on Cushing Academies choice to go digital. Has follow up interviews and references some of the issues with all digital collections like database providers terms and reading electronically.

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A new initiative from the nonprofit Internet Archive aims to make all books, commercial or public domain, available for digital distribution. If it works, Amazon could be in serious trouble. Read this blog post by Daniel Terdiman on Geek Gestalt.

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Cool page-turning interface to this medieval manuscript held at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.

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The advance of ebooks will no doubt bring much good. As often with technological change, we probably can't even predict what wonderful new things will emerge! But we can see some serious dangers ahead, and try to deal with them. I see three major areas of concern: to libraries, to physical bookstores and to the freedom to read in unfree countries.

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Time article by Adam Rose about the maturing market for e-readers. Sunday October 11.

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New technologies used in teaching featured in USAToday on Oct 05, 2009 by Kathleen Gray and Robin Erb. Includes schools giving out iPods and Kindles.

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Glo is an interactive Bible with interactive featuress like an atlas, timeline, study notes, short videos, and tools to track your reading. Video is also embedded in the companies web site.\n

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Promotional video demonstrating the digital bible which includes the text of the Bible accented by interactive maps, timelines, short videos and study notes. The product also includes a tool to track your reading habits.

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In a book-bending experiment combining film and prose, Simon & Schuster and Vook, a multimedia company that produces video content for books, are releasing four digital titles in which links to short video segments are seamlessly interspersed throughout the text.

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35,000 free books on the web at Sept. 25, 2009. Online Books Page was founded, and is edited, by John Mark Ockerbloom, He is a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He is solely responsible for the content of the site.\n\nAvailable to OAI harvesting. A very collaborative project that began at Carnegie Mellon in 1993 and moved to Penn.

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Article about Cushing Academy published on Sept 19. Blog run by Wordpress that is a good example of Web design and the full range of social media embedded into the site.

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294 page book produced by the University of Alaska with support from the Ford Foundation. Has application in faculty development regarding dialogue with colleagues and students and provides models for classroom instruction.
Add to faculty development collection.

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Article on the new Kindle DX, its unique features, and how it is succeeding. Presented with FLYPmedia technology that shows rich-media articles. Very interesting.

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List of freely available e-books compiled by an Australian company. Has a good list of religious and sacred texts.

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Clip of David Pogue's review of the Amazon Kindle 2 and its competition with the book.

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Discussion following article shows the variety of understandings of this issue in the public discourse. Lack of respect for authors, readers. Authors have legitimate concerns as do readers who need or enjoy the voice feature.

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Cory Doctorow's new book about digital content and Digital Rights Management.

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Project to record all public domain books and provide them for free.

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83 page handbook on project management.

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