What’s the Buzz

Interesting news items, links, videos and cool stuff related to book publishing.

See Jane Run…From Zombies…Again

By Erin L. Cox Yesterday, BoingBoing posted a contest to win a HP Envy 15 laptop.  The prize would go to the best literary mash-up.   … 

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Survey Says: Only 13% Willing to Pay for Online Content

By Siobhan O’Leary and Ed Nawotka On average, just 13% of Internet users are ready to pay for information online, according to an international study  … 

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Inside the Nook

By Edward Nawotka The new Barnes & Noble Nook device has been dissectedby some industrious hackers. What they found is that the entire system software—a  … 

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Seth Godin’s What Matters Now for Free

By Hannah Johnson Early this morning, Seth Godin made his latest book, What Matters Now, available as a free PDF download. You can download it  … 

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Random Preparing for E-book Rights Fight

By Edward Nawotka A pair of articles in the US press—one hitting the front page of the New York Times and another in the Wall  … 

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What’s the Buzz: Working with Netbook Makers; LeWeb Starts Tomorrow; Mediabistro Launches E-book Newsletter

By Hannah Johnson On Teleread, David Rothman poses an interesting question: Should publishers form relationships with netbook makers like Hewlett-Packard? Rothman believes that more consumers  … 

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What’s the Buzz: Twitter Considers Subscriptions; Amazon Reveals Kindle Statistics; Waiting to Buy an E-reader

By Hannah Johnson Would you pay to read certain people’s Twitter streams? Next year, you might have to. As reported in Techradar, a new subscription  … 

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What’s the Buzz: Wattpad in India; LeWeb Conference in Paris; Hans Georg Heepe Obituary

By Hannah Johnson and Siobhan O’Leary Wattpad, which has dubbed itself “the world’s most popular ebook community,” is making headlines with the announcement that its  … 

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What’s the Buzz: E-Rights and No-Compete Clauses; Adobe Flash Does Multi-Touch; Library 101

By Hannah Johnson At PubRants, literary agent Kristin Nelson writes about electronic rights and no-compete clauses in book contracts. According to Nelson’s interpretation of standard  … 

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What’s the Buzz: Social Media at Work; Creating Buzz and Followers Online

Mashable reports

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