Mike Cane's Public Library

I have to admit – the 400K sales estimate is quite possible. There has been a lot of coverage of the Nook and a lot of interest.

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By comparison, Android OS and BlackBerry OS showed consistent gains over the four months, with Google's OS going from 427,914 in February to 1.02 million in October. BlackBerry: From 9.7 million in February to 15 million in October. Whether looking at the data publicly published by ComScore or the FierceDeveloper data attributed to ComScore, the real stories are Android and Blackberry rather than iPhone and Windows Mobile.

The question everyone -- bloggers, carriers, handset manufacturers, journalists, retailers and software developers -- should ask: "Why?" Apple offers 100,000 or more applications than either Google or Research in Motion. Other than e-mail, BlackBerry media consumption simply isn't in the same league as either Apple or Google smartphones.

The answer is likely different for both devices. BlackBerry has huge distribution in the United States, while iPhone is available only from AT&T. BlackBerry's physical keyboard is as good as, if not better, for texting as e-mail. Who do you see using BlackBerries? I mostly see business people and young women (teens or twentysomethings). It's e-mail for one group and texting for the other.

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At 63, O'Bannon still had much to offer. They Bite was yet again being mooted as a possible production and his book, The Rules of Writing, was still looking for a publisher (please, someone).

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She left the service to get married in 1942, but took a continuing part in "Operation Mincemeat". This famous caper concerned "the man who never was", a corpse dressed as a naval officer and equipped with an elaborately constructed false identity, was floated in the ocean off Spain carrying fictitious plans of a purported Allied invasion of Sardinia and Greece and designed to deflect attention from the Allied landings in Sicily in 1943.

Paddy's role had been to write love letters to be planted on the body, given the name Major William Martin, of the Royal Marines, and to add credence to the story for any observers back in London by sending him telegrams. "I was sent to buy clothes in all the best men's shops and had to pose as his girlfriend. I had to go to post offices and rather loudly send this telegram to 'my boyfriend', hoping of course that somebody would overhear me."

The Germans found the body, and were duly taken in by the deception. Allied intelligence reported: "Mincemeat swallowed whole."

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If 60,000 tonnes of imaginary gold has been sold in a market that has a total stock of 160,000 tonnes, there is no question that the gold price has been suppressed, as long stated by GATA. No further debate is required on the subject.

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Newly launched RF Wireless Handheld Keyboard, Mouse and Touchpad 3 in 1. Also a HTPC, IPTV, CARPC remote control and keyboard. Compatible for Mac, Linux, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, etc

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People say to me, ‘so is the Stone Gods science fiction?’ Well, it is fiction, and it has science in it, and it is set (mostly) in the future, but the labels are meaningless.

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While people are busy ranking the hit books of the last 10 years, many a publishing insider is quietly mourning a volume that unnaccountably never made the 'best of' or bestseller lists, but should have. Here publishers, agents and translators speak up for the ones that really shouldn't have got away

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Have you ever wanted to do away with the Original Launcher Drawer Tab? Would you like quick and easy access to your most used features? Intuitit has gone to market with the Home Replacement application Home++ that gives you just that and more. Home++ is an alternative that basically uses the Stock launcher giving you all the same options and features that you already had plus many more. One of the more intriguing features of Home++ is the possibility of having animated widgets. Another great feature is multi-functioning buttons. This Home launcher is the cleanest most feature-powered Home Replacement on the market.

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ZeniMedia, which owns iD Software, has filed a DMCA complaint with Google and had several infringing applications removed from the Android Market. The offending games were ports of the popular Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein games created by iD Software.

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Wired magazine reported last month that In-Q-Tel, an investment arm of the Central Intelligence Agency, has put money into Visible Technologies, a software company that crawls across blogs, online forums, and open networks like Twitter and YouTube to monitor what is being said.

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The young Hecht -- he'd been born in 1894, the Jewish son of Russian immigrants -- was so avid for story he learned not to sleep. And because he saw "people shot, run over, hanged, burned alive, dead of poison, crumpled by age," he didn't record those stories like O. Henry. Hecht's style was garish, breezy, lyrical, a mixture of cynicism and sentiment that felt fresh back then and is still pretty irresistible today. He possessed, moreover, the essential gift of any would-be chronicler of urban life: empathy. Here, in a sketch titled "Fanny," he puts himself in the head of a judge, trying to winkle out the story of a young prostitute on the stand:

"No defense. The policeman's drone has ended and Fanny says nothing. This is difficult. Because his honor knows suddenly there is a defense. A monstrous defense. Since there are always two sides to everything. Yes, but what about the other side? His honor would like to know. Tell it, Fanny. About the crowds, streets, buildings, lights, about the whirligig of loneliness, about the humpty-dumpty clutter of longings. And then explain about the summer parks and the white snow and the moon window in the sky."

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Under the Freedom of Information Act, the Business Journal has received several hundred pages of government emails about WaMu, written during its final months, in which almost all of information is blacked out. Some of those "redacted" emails are posted here.

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Kathryn Q. Price's home is a shrine, literally, because she uses it as the sanctuary for her ministry.

But it's also sacred to her as a place of shelter for her and her two disabled children.

She said that's why she's waging a battle against mortgage banking giant HSBC and a string of appraisers and mortgage brokers who she contends took advantage of her lack of experience in real estate to saddle her with huge loans.

"Life is to be respected. Our houses [shelter] life and I advocate respect for life, as a spiritual leader who went through it and suffered through it," Ms. Price said. "A house should be secure and safe."

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Budget cuts and property tax caps are leaving many residents across Indiana in the dark.

Merrillville has turned off every other streetlight on its main roads. Valparaiso is turning off every other light in some areas and has set others to turn off at midnight. Muncie officials say the city will shut off 85 percent of overhead lights to help balance the 2010 budget.

The moves are a response to rising costs and shrinking revenue that's the result of the ailing economy and property tax caps.

Muncie Mayor Sharon McShurley says the move could result in more than just darker streets.

"I'm setting you on notice," she told the council. "The decisions you have made, unless you reconsider the budget, are going to be detrimental to the city."

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The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway

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I told Joanna Penn in an interview last year that the tabletop role-playing gaming industry started out by trying to model the methods of traditional publishing, found out the hard way that that really didn’t work for them (in the long run, it’s not working for big publishers either, but they’re BIG, so they didn’t notice as soon), and had to find new solutions. They were the first to adopt electronic publishing, shame-free POD printing, electronic-only publishing, podcasting-modules, mixed media releases, and every other experimental method anyone could think of, good or bad. That’s fine: they’re small, and experimenting is something small groups of people can DO that big groups can’t.

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"Officers should be reminded that it is not an offence for a member of the public or journalist to take photographs of a public building and use of cameras by the public does not ordinarily permit use of stop and search powers," the circular said.

Andy Trotter, chief constable of the British transport police, who drafted the guidance for the Association of Chief Police Officers, said photographers should be "should be left alone to get on with what they are doing".

The shift in policy was a direct response to weeks of negative media reports surrounding photographers, amateur and professional, who said they were being unfairly stopped, usually under section 44, a law allowing officers to stop and search without need for "suspicion" within designated areas in the UK.

While the use of anti-terrorist stop and search powers has fallen in recent months, a succession of high-profile incidents involving the use of the legislation against photographers has embarrassed senior officers, who privately concede that the rank and file are misusing their powers on the ground.

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Waterstone's has revealed it has sold more than 350,000 e-books since its online store launched in September 2008.

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Demonstrating an entertaining new way to read, the interaction of Inanimate Alice makes for an immersive reading experience. Being interspersed with puzzles and games, simple to start with, growing more complex with each episode as the story unfolds, the series has a layered structure and a multi-tasking environment that digital natives feel is their territory and which teachers can employ for reading inspiration.

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