http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://io9.com/5892026/behold-wesley-crusher-teenage-f-machine-the-amazon-kindles-new-hottest-book/behold-wesley-crusher-teenage-f-machine-the-amazon-kindles-new-hottest-book #1 Reason to buy a Kindle: Wesley Crusher: Teenage F*** Machine: http://t.co/eW3qTpcz via @io9 ]]> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:35:42 -0700 http://io9.com/5892026/behold-wesley-crusher-teenage-f-machine-the-amazon-kindles-new-hottest-book/behold-wesley-crusher-teenage-f-machine-the-amazon-kindles-new-hottest-book http://thebrowser.com/articles/e-books-cant-burn/e-books-cant-burn-best-of-the-moment-the-browser E-books Can't Burn: Could it be that ebooks bring us closer to the essence of the literary experience? @nybooks http://t.co/IMoUdFtP ]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:50:20 -0700 http://thebrowser.com/articles/e-books-cant-burn/e-books-cant-burn-best-of-the-moment-the-browser http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/04/26/100426fa_fact_auletta Traditionally, publishers have sold books to stores, with the wholesale price for hardcovers set at fifty per cent of the cover price. Authors are paid royalties at a rate of about fifteen per cent of the cover price. On a twenty-six-dollar book, the publisher receives thirteen dollars, out of which it pays all the costs of making the book. The author gets $3.90 in royalties. Bookstores return about forty per cent of the hardcovers they buy; this accounts for $5.20 per book. Another $3 goes to overhead costs and the price of producing and shipping the book—leaving, in the best… ]]> Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:10:00 -0700 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/04/26/100426fa_fact_auletta http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23683 Though Gutenberg's invention made possible our modern world with all its wonders and woes, no one, much less Gutenberg himself, could have foreseen that his press would have this effect. And no one today can foresee except in broad and sketchy outline the far greater impact that digitization will have on our own future. With the earth trembling beneath them, it is no wonder that publishers with one foot in the crumbling past and the other seeking solid ground in an uncertain future hesitate to seize the opportunity that digitization offers them to restore, expand, and promote their backlists to… ]]> Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:51:00 -0700 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23683 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/03/090803fa_fact_baker?currentPage=all ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one. “Say Hello to Kindle 2,” it said, in tall letters on the main page. If I looked up a particular writer on Amazon—Mary Higgins Clark, say—and then reached the page for her knuckle-gnawer of a novel “Moonlight Becomes You,” the top line on the page said, “ ‘Moonlight Becomes You’ and over 270,000 other books are available for Amazon Kindle—Amazon’s new wireless reading device. Learn more.”… ]]> Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:43:00 -0700 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/03/090803fa_fact_baker?currentPage=all