There is a budding controversy in SF that is on the verge of become a minor scandal. It seems a Facebook group called 20Booksto50k may or may not be the...Continue reading
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Remarkable E-ink Writing Slate Reviews – Great Tablet, But Not Ready for Prime Time
If that early buzz for the $600 Remarkable tablet had you wishing that you had gotten in on the early pre-orders, I have good news for you: It’s not ready yet....Continue reading
Amazon Opens a Manhattan Bookstore: a Round-Up
To the old-guard literati, New York City is a sacred place. High rents may have been driving bookstores over the last few decades, but Manhattan is still the holiest of holies....Continue reading
RoundUp: Amazon Won’t be Opening 400 Bookstores, But That Hasn’t Quelled the Speculation
The rumor that Amazon was opening 300 to 400 bookstores lasted less than 24 hours before being retracted by the original source, but that was more than enough time for...
About That $1 Billion Tax Gap Caused by Amazon (a Roundup)
A new report released this week at the Winter Institute conference states that Amazon has cost local and state governments a billion dollars in tax revenues each year. The report...Continue reading
Apple iPad Pro Review Roundup: Laptop Killer or No?
Earlier this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook made a bold claim that once you owned an iPad Pro, you would never need a full-function PC ever again. Obviously he’s smoking something, but how...Continue reading
Round Up: Ad Blocking is the New Pink
The launch of iOS 9 last week has brought advertising to the forefront again, revealing the many problems in the industry. Rather than being a new problem, ad blocking has...Continue reading
Copyright Office Wants Your Feedback On Its Flawed Solution for the Orphan Works Problem
Tomorrow morning’s link post is going to include a link to a Boing Boing post on the comment period for an orphan works proposal being put forward by the US...Continue reading
Yi-Fen Chou, Or How a White Male Poet Gamed the System
Michael Derrick Hudson, a genealogist (*) at the Allen County Public Library in Indiana, is one of a handful of poets to have a work published in this year’s Best American Poetry anthology,...Continue reading
Round Up: Factoring Amazon (Pt II)
It’s been a busy few days for Amazon since the NYTimes launched the latest salvo in its campaign against the retailer. We’ve seen Amazon managers speak out in defense of their employer, and Jeff Bezos has...Continue reading
Round Up: Inside Amazon
Yesterday’s NYTimes story about working conditions at Amazon is still percolating through the blogosphere. It’s provoking fights as the usual parties take their expected positions, but it has also inspired commentary from...Continue reading