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Trends, developments and innovations from the tech world as they relate to book publishing.

TOC RIP: Fare Thee Well, for Your Work is Done

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Ed Nawotka reflects on the end of the TOC conferences, noting that the technobabble introduced at the events has now become our commonplace diction in publishing.

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Dubai Arabic E-bookseller Rufoof Attracts 100,000 Users

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Dubai’s Rufoof e-bookseller offers 5,000 titles in Arabic and has attracted 100,000 users, 50% from Saudi Arabia, starting with free Islamic titles.

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Tips for Technologists #17: CSS Tutorial Part 1

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If you know some HTML, the next step is to learn how to style your HTML with CSS. Nick Ruffilo offers us a quick introduction to cascading stylesheets.

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Tips for Technologists #16: Preparing for the Future of Coding

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If publishers want to provide real value to their authors, Nick Ruffilo argues that they need to develop capabilities beyond what the average user with a computer can manage.

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Ether for Authors: A Mighty Metaphor Is Our Industry

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Porter Anderson assesses the Digital Minds Conference at the London Book Fair, where metaphors were in vogue, the end of copyright debated, and speed was the word of the day.

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ePubDirect to Manage Random House’s Int’l Ebook Distribution

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Random House has appointed ePubDirect to manage distribution of ebook assets and provide retail support for the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and India.

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Ready For Kbuuk? Another New Self-pub Ebook Company

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Houston-based Kbuuk is one of the latest in a long line of file conversion and self-publishing ebook platforms to emerge in the wake of the digital explosion.

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In France, Apple Censors Izneo’s “Pornographic” Comics

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Apple told Izneo, a French online comic book platform, to remove 3,700 of its BD and comics due to pornographic content, though 1,200 have since been restored.

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80,000 Titles From the National Library of the Netherlands and Google Now Online

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The National Library of the Netherlands and Google, which began in 2011 to digitize 160,000 books from the library, have just made 80,000 publicly available.

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Random House Updates BookScout: FB Friendly and Ready to Go

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Random House has recently updated its BookScout app that allow it to sync up with Facebook’s improved timeline. Can it capitalize on Goodreads-Amazon discontent?

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