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The Secret to a Soul Satisfying Relationship

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Romance, by Darrell L. Wilson The Secret to a Soul Satisfying Relationship

"The Secret to Soul Satisfying Relationships" is a straight forward approach to creating and sustaining healthy satisfying relationships. It dares to look at all the ways we sabatoge the real love and intimacy we could be experienceing. Offers whole new and exciting ways of seeing the relationship itself as a transformational vehicle. it guides the commited through a process that can potentially evolve our conflict resolution into an intimacy and trust builder. While so many books focus on how to make a relationship that will survive this book dares us to thrive and grow as evolutionary beings through the methods we refur to as conscious partnering.

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About Darrell L. WilsonAuthor's websiteShow moreDarrell Lokahi Wilson is an independant researcher, writer, and public speaker in the field of relationships. The approach is unique in a field where so much information is comming out receintly. The living love approach is an energy and consciousness based approach to creating harmonious healthy relationships. With a broad based background in energy research and practice Lokahi has simply and straight forwardly revealed the essence of soul connection, and how this is the real key to sustaining deeply satisfying relationships.Comments for "The Secret to a Soul Satisfying Relationship" Do you like this book? yes no LIKES (1) DISLIKES (1) Thanks for your feedback
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The Destiny Secret Book 1

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This is Book 1 of the series. Fast paced thriller - A dangerous genius unleashes a powerful but simple way to breakdown the Rule of Law. Leah, a young Oxford graduate who wants to become Britain's youngest ambassador, becomes pitted against him. Whatever it takes, he must be stopped before world chaos erupts - destroying Western Society. But how? Will her wit and intelligence be enough, or is there a higher price she must pay?Accepted for entry in the George Orwell Prize for Literature 2012.

This is Book 1 of the series. Fast paced thriller - A dangerous genius unleashes a powerful but simple way to breakdown the Rule of Law. Leah, a young Oxford graduate who wants to become Britain's youngest ambassador, becomes pitted against him. Whatever it takes, he must be stopped before world chaos erupts - destroying Western Society. But how? Will her wit and intelligence be enough, or is there a higher price she must pay? Accepted for entry in the George Orwell Prize for Literature 2012.

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About guy clintonAuthor's websiteShow moreGuy Clinton may or may not, be the real name of the author. When you finish reading this book you will understand why he has taken the precaution of remaining obscure.
However he is male and grew up in a middle class, middle of the road family who moved to the Middle East in his mid-teens. Here he encountered his first dead person, lying in a gutter in Bahrain. The man had died from starvation and it left a lasting impression on him. Since then he has lived in many parts of the world including California, Spain, Holland and Australia. He is a passionate advocate of freedom, fishing and fine food - a superb cook.
The first time I met him in 2003, he told me the strange story of Dr David Kelly, adding that he felt the man who died trying to stop the second Iraq war deserved a medal for his bravery. The second time, we worked together editing film scripts in California, where he has developed a well-deserved reputation for writing powerful humor. If you enjoy comedy movies, there is a high chance you have already laughed at him.
He started writing this thriller four years ago. I have been involved in it from the start and I know he will not enjoy me saying this, but it must be said: He is a remarkable author. Remarkable not because he can write a superb thriller, and not because he is a researcher with a mania for the truth, but because he has an unhinging ability to perceive the future. He is prescience - the only one I have ever met who does not wear a cloak of ambiguity or trickery when he nails his shirt to the mast. He denies this, saying 'It's commonsense.'
It is the most uncommon sense I have ever witnessed.
There are many things that are not in this book. We made him remove them because they occurred after he wrote them but before publication The fall of the Euro, fixed term parliaments, even Obama campaigning under the banner Ã?Â¢??ChangeÃ?Â¢??. As I look through my files, itÃ?Â¢??s quite a list. I first read them in the book outline some years ago and at the time I thought them far-fetched. I now know they have actually occurred. Certainly, everyone involved must be as shocked as I am about that aspect - it is truly remarkable. For two items he baulked at taking out three of us teamed up against him and made him date them!
Given the recent events in the Middle East, I know now that many of the ideas he left in will follow the same path. That is the good news Guy - change is accelerating. You were right about that too but wrong about the rate: itÃ?Â¢??s breathtaking. It has even made a cynic like me realize that all is now possible.
For someone who knows him as I do (see above) it is dangerously uplifting to read Ã?Â¢??Our Destiny SecretÃ?Â¢?? at the end of this book so I suggested he take it out as it seemed a step too far. He replied that was the single reason he had gone to the trouble of writing an entertaining book - for that one chapter. The book is designed to get people thinking and talking about where our destiny lies and, where it is dangerous to go looking.
As I write I can see a bottle of 1960 Premier cru Taittinger in the wine rack opposite me Ã?Â¢?? your favourite champagne, Guy. It has your name on it but, you must drink it here.
Till then, then.
Take good care of him, Britain. It requires courage past the point of foolishness to write this. To present this level of truth. In the initial stages of the book's release, when only a few have read it, I think Guy stands in a position of great personal harm and danger.

Please ensure he comes to no harm.

John Simons, Shark Bay California, April 2011
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How To Create An Economic Democracy

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In 1620 Francis Bacon introduced a new scientific method. In 1690 the English philosopher John Locke used the new scientific method to discover how to create a political democracy and a revolutionary new concept of politics. In this book the author uses the new method and discovers how to create an economic democracy and a revolutionary new concept of economics.
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Roundup of Today’s Apple iBooks 2 News and Announcements

Very Impressive Live Coverage of Apple Event from The Verge (each post with an image).

New: iBooks 2 for Education (iPad) What’s New With Books 2 App? (via the App Store) Experience gorgeous Multi-Touch textbooks designed for iPadiBooks textbooks are filled with interactive features, diagrams, photos, and videosTap to dive into images with interactive captions, rotate 3D objects, swipe through image galleries, watch videos in full screen, and moreUse a finger as a highlighter when swiping over text in a textbootTake advantage of Study Cards to help you memorize important highlights, notes, and glossary termsTap glossary terms to see definitions of key topics and concepts without leaving the pageThe iBookstore offers textbooks on Algebra, Biology, Chemistry, Geometry, and Physics from McGraw-Hill and Pearson.These textbooks are currently available to customers in the United States. Textbooks from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt are coming soon.

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A New Category “Textbooks” Now the iBooks Bookstore. Books cost $14.99 or less (As of today, there are only seven textbooks for $14.99 each as well as free download of Life on Earth.“The books range in size from about 750MB to nearly 3GB for the Biology textbook — a full set would take up most of a 16GB iPad’s storage.” (via The Verge)Apple has been working with Pearson, McGraw Hill, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, E.O. Wilson, Biodiversity Foundation, and DK Publishing

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Make Money Online

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Apple e-textbook tools to jack up education and hardware costs ultimately?

While the Digital Public Library of America has been fixated on arcane library-and-museum concerns, Apple is unveiling an e-format that might lock in millions of teachers and students in the U.S. and elsewhere

Very possibly the new multimedia book product may ultimately jack up costs in K-12 and elsewhere.

The new format will let students rotate and explore 3D objects, among other features. That’s good. But via hardware-related exclusives, Apple for now is locking up the new related to the hilt, playing up the ease of authoring for the format.

Probable result? Higher hardware prices for schools, students, businesses and consumers than otherwise, or at least slower decreases in costs. And in the contract agreement for the book-creation software, what about this line spotted by Bill McCoy of the International Digital Publishing Forum, the e-book standards-setting group? “If you charge a fee for any book or other work you generate using this software (a ‘Work’), you may only sell or distribute such Work through Apple (e.g., through the iBookstore).” The good news is that the Apple authoring tool can do ePub. But will that apply to the most advanced features? And has Apple “bastardized” the ePub format? At least one MobileRead reader gave the authoring tool a test spin and thinks so.

Granted, the DPLA already has a lot on its plate. Still, the Apple approach, if it isn’t using ePub in a standard way, is the opposite of the library ecosystem approach I’ve advocated here and here. I wish the DPLA would pay more attention to basics and form alliances accordingly even if it can’t take immediate action here.

Reporting on the new format, Wired says: “Meanwhile, iBooks Author is the trojan horse. There really aren’t many easy-to-use e-book authoring apps, even for plain-text books for Kindle or Nook. And none of easy-to-use applications have been free.

“Now both individual authors and trade and textbook presses can be drawn into a development and publishing ecosystem that begins and ends with Apple. Amazon may offer more eyeballs, but Apple offers an easier workflow. And the multimedia enhancements baked into the new iBooks will tempt everyone creating an e-book to add bits that will be specific to Apple’s platform—creating accidental exclusives.

Um, absolutely accidental? Hardly! I salute Apple’s apparent technical accomplishments but hate the idea of e-book formats becoming even more balkanized. And notice the phrase “easier workflow”? Ease and convenience were among the themes of my ecosystem writings. Apple will offer it for multimedia books. Free nonproprietary alternatives may not go is far. The end result will be more lock-in capabilities for one particular company—meaning very possibly prices of related products, even if Apple’s system apparently will work for free content.

If there’s a technical hook that can jack up profits, you can bet a vendor will use it, be there a DRM angle or another one. Wait. Sure enough, about the iBooks 2 reading app, Wired says: “Disappointingly there’s no move to offer a desktop client for Mac or Windows.” If not? So much for the altruism factor. About the authoring tool, iBooks Author, the word is that so far it’s for the Mac only. No other desktop. The education market is a leading one for Apple.

Please, DPLA, can’t you pay more attention to mundane things like e-book formats and coordinate your act better with the IDPF, the e-book standards group? Let’s turn the nation’s computer sci departments into—in part—R&D labs for nonproprietary standards and authoring and reading apps. Significantly, the DPLA for new is mostly a creature of academia. Here’s a chance to use that fact for the good.

Oh, and just in case you’re wondering, I wouldn’t be surprised to see many nontextbook books use the tainted proprietary format and accompanying DRM. This on top of the formats (plural!) at Amazon.com. Ouch.

Related: Just spotted, via Peter Brantley’s e-publishing list: Joe Esposito’s essay, reaching some of the conclusions I do. This is a platform war. And consumers will pay—in inconvenience if nothing else—the accompanying costs. Also see views of Vook, an Apple software competitor.

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Everything For Learning Drills - Preschool Study Unit Sampler

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Preschool Study Unit Free SamplerThis is a free sampler of Everything For Learning Drills – Complete Preschool Study Unit and offers:-worksheets for letters and number printing practice-introduction to even numbers, patterns, shapes, and addition-puzzles like connect the dot and color by numberThis is based on preschool curriculum but younger kids and even kindergarten to grade one can use it as a refresher.

Preschool Study Unit Free Sampler This is a free sampler of Everything For Learning Drills – Complete Preschool Study Unit and offers: -worksheets for letters and number printing practice -introduction to even numbers, patterns, shapes, and addition -puzzles like connect the dot and color by number This is based on preschool curriculum but younger kids and even kindergarten to grade one can use it as a refresher.

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Author's websiteFacebookTwitterShow moreHi! My name is Tammy Scherck.

I reside in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with a husband, a seven year old daughter, two dogs, two cats, and we canÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½t forget the fish. Yes, it is a busy household at times.

I am a stay at home homeschooler who enjoys gardening, anything summer, the Martial Arts, and reading. I am a Christian and believer in all things good. I enjoy writing and creating.

I have been publishing kids workbooks, worksheets, and other type of books since September 2011. According to me, this was only supposed to be a tiny venture. Well, my Ã¢ï¿½ï¿½tiny ventureÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½ is now over 100 educational ebooks.

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E-Reads acquires Brian Aldiss backlist

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E-Reads, a leading independent e-book publisher and a powerhouse in fantasy and science fiction, has acquired US e-book and print rights to fifteen titles by British science fiction Grandmaster Brian Aldiss, winner of two Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award and a John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Included in the trove are his Helliconia trilogy, the Squire quartet, and such other classics as Greybeard, Dark Light Years, and Galaxies like Grains of Sand. E-Reads will also publish a new work, Finches of Mars.

The reissue program will begin with fifteen titles, but E-Reads has an option to acquire the balance of Aldiss’s enormous output. The author is writing new introductions.

The deal was handled by John R. Douglas of E-Reads and Robin Straus of the Robin Straus Agency, Aldiss’s United States literary agent. Says Douglas, “I’ve been reading Aldiss for more than forty years and had the pleasure of working on the original publication of some of his works. It’s a privilege and delight to bring his books back as e-books. And to publish an original work of his – Finches of Mars – is a huge bonus.”

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Ten ‘musts’ for an e-library ecosystem—to fight off bullying by content-providers and respect traditional library priorities

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Libraries will lose out to profit-crazed publishers and other content-providers unless they can offer something back—beyond their current audiences. Penguin‘s refusal to provide new audiobooks to libraries is just part of an ugly pattern of bullying from the commercial side. Another, of course, is HarperCollins’ requirement that libraries loan an e-book no more than 26 times without paying for more reads.

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How to respond? Earlier I proposed alibrary-friendly ecosystem for the creation, distribution, and popularization of e-books and other content of value to both the general public and specialists. I want library items for typical patrons to be as tempting and easy to download as anything from Amazon in the era of the Kindle Fire and similar machines. Mind you, national digital library systems should be extremely open to alliances with the commercial side and appreciate the risk-taking of publishers and others. But to regain lost bargaining power, libraries urgently need to establish their own ecosystem, not just rely on infrastructure and distribution controlled by for-profit corporations. May the day come when more publishers can cherish library-orignated content! Not to mention the possibility of revenue from library-linked stores and rental services. Otherwise the Shatzkin scenario, the death of public libraries, may eventually be reality.

Does this mean libraries should merely imitate Amazon or Google or those companies’ rivals? Certainly not, regardless of Amazon’s brilliant, seamless approach that makes e-books widely available in many different ways. With library values and ethics in mind, as well as new criteria related to usability and aesthetics, I’ll offer ten musts for a library ecosystem online. I’ll welcome suggestions for the “must” list. Also bear in mind that I have not prioritized all the items, even though “freedom” and “privacy” should come first.

1. Freedom to read what you want, in line with Richard Stallman’s thoughtsand many others’.

2. Privacy. In the 1990s, in an earlier library vision much refined since then, I called for e-book vending machine that accepted greenbacks and anonymous digital money. I take it for granted that Washington and power elites elsewhere will try to violate the privacy of library users, so we need alternatives. Richard, of course, has long held similar concerns.

3. Convenience, including the benefits of technical standards, so that works can be enjoyed on a variety of systems and are not tied to the standards of any one company. National digital library systems should not be in the hardware business in the fullest, most direct sense. But with potential collaborators such as the International Digital Publishing Forum, they should issue voluntary standards for software and hardware and help point users to products that would work smoothly with the library ecosystem—not just for text but also multimedia. National library systems could team up with collaborators such as One Laptop Per Child to develop reference designs that commercial vendors could adapt for their own purposes. The more hardware vendors involved, working on convenient-to-use hardware, the less easily the DRM interests can impose their will on the rest of the world.

Just as with the Kindle Fire, it should be simple for people to go back and forth from text items to multimedia (with optional restrictions available for special users, such as new readers whom the multimedia might distract) and find their original places, just as the Fire allows. That’s just one example. Convenience for the masses is no small requirement, the difference between a nice, tidy system for the techno- and cultural elites and one that ably serves the world at large. I believe that the confluence of elite and nonelite technologies and cultures can strengthen both kinds.

4. Permanence and repositionability of content, including the right to buy and own favorite library books and expect them to be accessible forever–in print or on paper–and able to be inherited by family members or friends. The current DRMed books are not permanent, because, especially within high-tech, companies and products come and go. Already Microsoft is phasing outits Microsoft Reader format.

Needless to say, like convenience, permanence is among the glories of nonproprietary standards. Permanence traditionally has been one of the traits of books, and DRM and the related “license only” philosophy are attacks on the medium as it has traditionally existed.

I also believe that books should not be remotely deletable except with the exp ress permission of buyers (for example, those interested in easy refunds on accidental purchases).

Of course, with library books, the system needs a means to enforce expiration. One way would be timed denial of access via the Web or via time-related caching limits (perhaps DRM by some definitions). But either a renewal or purchase should be able to quickly restore access.The caching approach would hardly be uncrackable. But then neither has been conventional e-book DRM.

5. The right of organizations and individuals to resell or loan owned e-books,just like the paper variety. One issue is whether this right would apply to books that were not remotely deletable, so “one at a time” is enforced.

Libraries would argue for rights to buy e-copies of books for an unlimited number of one-at-a-time accesses, in the paper tradition. Perhaps this won’t happen. But I’d love for the law to assure this.

If media conglomerates keep insisting on per-access-related compensation in place of the paper-book model, and if legislative cures are not likely, then one possible compromise might be a significant reduction in the lengths of copyright terms, at least as they affect libraries. No miracles expected, given the donations-related dominance of content-providers in Congress for the most part despite the impressive progress made against SOPA-PIPA. But libraries can at least try.

6. Other kinds of access, in all senses of the word–from the economic and geo kinds to to access for people with disabilities. Within “access,” I would also include linkability and the ability to be annotated (the latter is among the concerns of Sara Houghton in her E-Book Users Bill of Rights).

7. Pronounced diversity of content: different genres, political viewpoints, sufficient numbers of books by women and minorities. No quotas, please–just open-mindedness and lots and lots of loving support for literacy programs in minority communities, among others. The rediscovery of orphan works might be especially beneficial to minority writers neglected in the past.

The ecosystem should likewise include popular and academic books alike.

This is one reason why I personally favor two closely intertwined but separate systems, so that powerful, well-credentialed academics can’t prevail over the wishes of talented but obscure local and state librarians who know their audiences’ needs better. They could still share a common technical organization.

Also, just as Amazon’s ecosystem does, the library one should encompass multimedia and encourage the growth of a strong regional film industries, in addition to helping to fund national and international projects. I badly want text to be the main focus, especially since traditional, word-focus literacy is so often the path to mastery of others. But if this is to be a popular library, it could include nontexts and, if Hollywood and budgets allow, natural treasures such as the great films of the past.

8. Decentralization. Neither New York nor Washington should be able to tell the rest of the country what to read. Ties in with “diversity.” The ecosystem needs ways to identify the best books in different categories, but this should come from many sources.

9. General attention paid to usability and aesthetics. Without more usability, libraries will never be competitive against the commercial side. In fact, I regard aesthetics as part of usability, and the sales of both the Kindle and the iPad would seem to back me up.

Why are the interfaces of many library systems—online catalogs and other offerings—so jarringly ugly? Especially with budgets tight, I don’t expect libraries to compete overnight with Apple. But surely they can do better than today, especially if they forge alliances with academia and stay in close touch with arts departments. Geeks and art students should learn from each other and, when possible, create together. Steve Jobs could never have given us Macs, iPods, iPads, and the rest—from the sculpted-looking cases to the glorious fonts—if he hadn’t learned art fundamentals. To get close to home, the LibraryCity.org site is not a paragon, and I would welcome design help from the right people.

Advocates of free, unencumbered software have often given outrageously short shrift tp those traits. I can understand the reasons—the limited resources of volunteers, however brilliant and dedicated. But without convenience and aesthetics, the library world will tend to lose out to the commercial side. The reverse is that with those two traits, libraries in many cases might actually enjoy an advantage, for they need only focus on genuine services for users, as opposed to pushing commercial products and services. How many library users wouldn’t appreciate the absence of distracting ads for, say, home loans?

10. Fair compensation for creators of major formal works like books–based on access counts or otherwise. The “otherwise” would open up some new business models. The grants system and others within academia and the nonprofit world are not always appropriate for all kinds of books. I don’t want commercial trade publishers to go away; rather, to show more flexibility toward new models.

The library ecosystem will have to make compromises for the system to gain traction needed for bargaining power, but the above should be the ultimate goals.

Once the library system is robust enough, one strategy might be to pay content-providers less for DRM-linked works, which be eminently fair, given the subtraction of value for readers. An ultimate goal should be the death of DRM. I can’t tell you how much I hate the technology (not the people themselves). The damned DRM operation at Adobe wouldn’t even let me de-register some computers I’d sold! And even improved versions will undoubtedly come with their own obnoxious limitations.

What I have in mind is the sterile-insect strategy. Encourage the DRMers to mate within the library ecosystem, so to speak–make the system too important to be ignored. But as time goes by, use lower compensation for DRMed content and other means to nudge them to be open to a more reader-friendly approach. Hardware buyers should, as Richard Stallman has urged, have the option to order products without DRM.

Social DRM, such as inserting users’ names and addresses at the starts of books and perhaps elsewhere, comes with privacy risks. But it is not DRM in the strict sense and could be one intermediate step toward a DRMless world.

Those are my opinions, and I’ll try to show an open mind. I regard this post as a dialogue-starter rather than the final answer on everything covered here.

Details: The forest image is GNU-licensed and is from Eckhard Jacob. Also, the contact information in the linked item from 1994 is obsolete; these days I’m reachable at 703-370-6540 and davidrothman@pobox.com.

Update, 3:08 p.m., EST: Many publishers could also come out ahead if libraries had a good, robust ecosystem. More clout for libraries would mean more standard-setting assistance for publishers and less reliance on format-related bookstores that insist on more than their share of revenue. Apple’s new e-textbook format is the latest eBabel threat.

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Govicide: Comply

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Homicide Detective Michael Locke is an obedient subject of the Masses. However, after an interrogation with his latest catch, the serial killer Hamilton, and being promoted to Govicide Agent, Locke starts to suspect all is not as it seems within the One World Government.

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University Publishing Online adds six more academic presses

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Cambridge University Press is pleased to announce the addition of six more academic presses to its University Publishing Online (UPO) platform.

2012 will see the addition of content from Anthem Press, Boydell & Brewer, Edinburgh University Press, Nottingham University Press, Pickering & Chatto and the University of Adelaide Press.

Launched in October 2011, University Publishing Online provides access to thousands of titles from scholarly Presses around the world, accessible through quick, powerful search and browse functionality.

Anthem Press are scheduled to launch in March with 125 titles across a broad range of subjects, from drama and theatre to policy and international relations through to medicine.

The Boydell & Brewer Group publish across the humanities, including history and the arts and is scheduled to launch with over 400 titles. With specialist lists in African, Hispanic and German studies (under the imprints James Currey, Tamesis and Camden House), it has an established partnership with the University of Rochester Press.

Edinburgh University Press will initially make around 210 titles available in May across 16 subjects within the humanities and social sciences and fields across all scientific, technical and medical areas.

Nottingham University Press publish across a wide range of scientific subjects, from animal science to scientific communication and are scheduled to launch around April/May with 44 titles.

Pickering & Chatto will have over 370 titles available on UPO, covering humanities and social sciences subjects from philosophy and religion to economics, finance and business.

The University of Adelaide Press are continuing to build a wide range of titles across all H&SS and STM disciplines and will have 16 titles available initially.

With the addition of these publishers University Publishing Online will offer over 14,000 titles from ten global presses.

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Why I Haven’t Bought a Single Book in the iBookstore [Opinion] | Ebook Friendly, by Piotr Kowalczyk

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I’m a big fan of Apple products, and a happy owner of the iPhone and iPad. I was one of a couple of million iPhone users who downloaded Stanza ereading application – and proved that Steve Jobs was wrong saying that “people stop reading”.

In view of today’s event, where Apple is going to declare their commitment to digital publishing, I realized I’ve never ever bought a single book in the iBookstore.

To clarify: I didn’t spend a dollar in the iBookstore, but I bought lots of books to my iOS devices, both as book apps in the AppStore or to other ereading applications. One of them was The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave, a fantastic book app developed by Enhanced Editions (AppStore link) – and one of the most outstanding examples of huge possibilities behind digital publishing.

But this story is not about possibilities other content providers give, but about disappointments created by Apple.

Disappointment 1 Spring 2010. Apple launched iPad together with iBooks/iBookstore ecosystem. The application was looking great, as always from Apple. The only problem was the content.

I live in Poland. Only free books from public domain were available, the titles everyone can get vie dozens of other apps and sites, as they come from Project Gutenberg.

Free books? I already had them in Stanza. Interestingly, at the launch of Apple’s ebookstore there was actually more books in the AppStore (120,000) than in the iBookstore (around 60,000).

At that time I was also about to realize that the question of the future is: who will I choose to be my cloud bookshelf? Amazon seems to better know the answer. It’s not about the device, it’s not about the app. It’s about the place where my digital books are archived and synced.

Disappointment 2 First half of 2011. Long in-app purchase battle. Media were very excited about that. Maybe it was something about stock exchange in this who-is-going-to-get-the-cut war, because there was nothing for the reader there.

How it ended, we all know. Amazon, Kobo and other content providers kicked out direct links to bookstores from their apps – in order not to get kicked out from the AppStore. The possibility to easily buy books in the app, offered from that moment only by Apple didn’t encourage me to try it, because I perceived iBookstore as being more expensive in the first place (agency model, remember?).

The other conclusion was more important, however. Only somebody who doesn’t really care or doesn’t know how to get involved in a certain topic, wants to get a cut and forget.

Disappointment 3 The in-app fight was staying at the back of my head when the iBookstore was launched in 26 more countries, including Poland. No matter how discouraged I was, I decided to give it a next chance.

And this was a next disappointment. How come in the ebookstore localized in Poland, books in Polish language were listed below not only English, but also Bulgarian or Slovenian ones? Was that so difficult to set up relevant localization options? And why there was no possibility to search books by language? I know, Apple’s search engine is terribly weak ad there is nothing we can do about it.

I wrote a post with tips on how to find non-English books in the iBookstore, but it’s not bloggers to give such tips, but powerful e-content distributors, who, I assume, want to make more and more money.

I could complain about many other details, but the thing is that my cloud bookshelf is somewhere else (search keyword “Kindle”), so I don’t really care about it any longer. And a nice-looking app on a nice-looking device are not enough to change my preferences.

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Apple look like caring only about devices and buyers. They don’t care about content and users. It’s all too late, too expensive and too US-only. If things are going to continue this way – and I strongly believe they won’t – it’s not only Bunny Munro, who is about to die.

Apple, please give us something magical, which does not include the word “disappointment”.

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calibre 0.8.36 released

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Decrease startup time for large libraries with at least one composite custom column by reading format info on demandWhen automatically deleting news older than x days, from the calibre library, only delete the book if it both has the tag News and the author calibre. This prevents accidental deletion of books tagged with News by the user.Driver for Infibeam Pi 2Add a Tag Editor for tags like custom columns to the edit metadata dialogE-book viewer: Fix regression in 0.8.35 that caused viewer to raise an error on books that did not define a languageContent server: Fix grouping for categories based on custom columns.Edit metadata dialog: When setting the series from a format or via metadata download, ensure that the series index is not automatically changed, when closing the dialog.When reading metadata from Topaz (azw1) files, handle non ascii metadata correctly.CHM Input: Do not choke on CHM files with non ascii internal filenames on windows.Fix reading metadata from CHM files with non-ascii titlesFix HTML 5 parser choking on commentsIf calibre is started from a directory that does not exist, automatically use the home directory as the working directory, instead of crashingFix iriver story HD Wi-Fi device and external SD card swappedContent server: Fix ugly URLs for specific format download in the book details and permalink panelsWhen adding FB2 files do not set the date field from the metadata in the file

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Free Kindle ebook for the weekend – Pictures of the Mind: What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are

How about this for weekend reading. Looks fascinating. Normally $21 in ebook format. From the Amazon blurb:

Over the past decade, a revolution in medical imaging has allowed researchers to scan the brain of subjects in situ, while setting their minds to an assigned task. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) are revealing, among other discoveries, that the brain of some apparently vegetative patients can be active; the brain’s ability to heal and grow well beyond what was previously believed; and the various centers of different behaviors and skills. Physicist and science writer Boleyn-Fitzgerald addresses brain injury, addiction, memory, meditation, and more with summaries of recent research, cogent explanations of what scientists are learning, and plentiful references. Fascinatingly, she illustrates how “knotty questions about morality, blame, and punishment provide abundant raw material for brain researchers,” who can assess, for instance, “whether ‘normal’ brains are wired for altruism and cooperation.” Boleyn-Fitzgerald writes in a clear voice, making scientific data engaging and accessible for anyone with an interest in the study of neurology, mindfulness, or behavior.

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Amazon may put traditional publishers out of business says industry insider

10582891-amazon-logo On new Silicon Valley news startup Pando Daily, ex-TechCruncher Sarah Lacey posts an email she got from an anonymous publishing industry insider who sees Amazon gunning for the publishing industry with a long-term plan to put big publishers out of business.

By selling books at slim or even negative profit margins, this insider notes, Amazon is targeting publishers own profit margins—if Amazon can convince consumers that books are “supposed to be” cheaper, publishers will have to lower prices sooner or later. And Amazon also has its sights on the books that earn the publishing industry most of its money—celebrity and best-selling fiction writers.

In short, there’s a bidding war among the publishers over the big books. We all know what the good books are–it all comes down to how much of an advance we’re willing to pay for them. The hotly fought-for books are the ones that sell. And while we might not make huge profit % on these, we make big profit $ on these. They keep the lights on by covering overhead. Better to cover our fixed costs by going all in on a few big books than trying to buy dozens of mid-list books.

But over the years, the amount of advances publishers have been able to pay has declined—and Amazon has moved in to scoop some of these books out from under publishers’ noses for its own new publishing arm by paying ridiculous advances that they’ll never be able to earn back. Even though it’s throwing money away, it’s money Amazon can afford to lose in order to build its own publishing business—and it’s taking away the authors who are traditional publishers’ bread and butter.

I find myself in agreement with Lacey’s comments on this email—the publishing industry has made its own bed over the years, and has no one else to blame if it turns out it didn’t make such a comfortable one after all. Perhaps some new, smaller company can figure out innovative ways to eat Amazon’s lunch just as badly as it’s eating the big publishing dinosaurs’.

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iBooks Author – under the hood

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From a post on TUAW by Erica Sadun:

I spent a good bit of time this morning taking a peek under the hood at iBooks Author and the files it builds. By request, here is a quick summary of some of the information I gathered on the topic. I warn you that this is going to be a non-generalist post, so do feel free to skip ahead on the site if this kind of info isn’t really your thing.

The iBooks format appears to be an EPUB-like variant specific to Apple. Like EPUB, it’s a zipped up file that contains an archive of the materials that make up the book. Inside, you find an Open Packaging folder and a META-INF Open Container Format folder, with its container.xml file. Unlike EPUB with its application/xhtml+xml mimetype, .ibooks uses application/x-ibooks+zip.

There are numerous other small differences. For those I defer to Jim Dovey, who tweeted expertly on the subject this morning.

If you re-name .ibooks files to .epub, they are just close enough to EPUB that you can read them into Adobe Digital Editions and Calibre. From Calibre, you can then export to EPUB although my tests show that you lose many of the fine details specific to Apple’s extensions. It’s so easy, however, to export directly to an iPad running iBooks 2, that you may not need to use this approach to recover EPUB files.

Low-income people vs. e-books? Controversy shows why DPLA should care more about the needs of the nonelite

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later, and I’m glad it did. The local NAACP and others in Rockford, Illionois, are protesting the local library system’s plans to spend about a quarter of its $1.19-million collection budget on e-books. And I can understand the anger of the low-income protestors, who fear they’ll lack the resources to enjoy the digital books.

Making 50 Kindle e-readers available for loans—what the library system proposes, according to a report in American Libraries—won’t be enough. The number is pathetically small, given that more than a fifth of Rockford’s 153,000 people live in poverty.

Complicating matters is that someone at the top of the wait list for a Kindle may not be able to access to e-book that he or she wants, because it, too, has a list. Alas, Rockford’s local issues here can’t be separated from the need for a well-stocked national digital library system serving the entire country, not just the upper socio-economic groups. With all expenses considered, libraries are paying more for e-books than they should, and quite logically, skeptics worry about recurring costs. The best solution would be a national digital library system with a robust ecosystem to give it enough leverage to bargain fairly but effectively with publishers while respecting traditional library values. I’d also recommend that content providers and libraries spend less time fighting the copyright wars and more time fighting for library budgets at all levels of government. The more library books and other media available via libraries, the less of a piracy problem.

For now, in Rockford’s place, I would greatly increase the number of e-books purchased but not to the level now planned, considering the risks of current e-book licensing arrangements and the large number of people in the town without the financial resources or the knowledge to deal with e-books.

Meanwhile, without splurging, I would cautiously experiment with used iPads, suitably configured Android tablets, or other devices that low-income people could use for many applications such as library books, early childhood education and family literacy, e-forms and interaction with social workers, healthcare providers and teachers. Net video is cheap to use and endlessly more engaging than the telephone alone. I would not rely on the gadgetry to reduce traditional face-to-face contact, rather to augment it.

What’s more, librarians and teachers ideally could offer both technical support and the literacy-related kind, and local agencies, such as those providing healthcare and other services, would be suitably equipped. Early childhood education would be my favorite of all the apps—here are some specifics. Yes, that’s deep in Reinventing Government territory, but worth the time and money to try out in a small way, given the potential savings down the road.

If less adventureous, I would at least check with an e-reader maker about buying up a number of used machines and give away as many as I could afford to low-income people. Bought in bulk, used e–readers might go for $60 or $70.

Those are the kinds of issues I’ve been begging the Digital Public Library of America to take action on, either directly or through alliances with other organizations of all kinds. Unless the DPLA and others pay more attention to the needs of the nonelite, e-books will widen rather than close up the digital and academic divides.

(Via LibraryCity.)

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Gale/Cengage adds National Geographic archive

From the press release:

Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, and National Geographic, one of the world’s largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations, today announced an agreement to provide an online archive of more than 100 years of National Geographic magazine. Available to libraries this spring, National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994 will include all issues of the magazine in a fully searchable and intuitive interface. …

Also included in the more-than-100,000-page archive will be every stunning photograph published in the magazine through 1994. Among the first to use color photography, National Geographic magazine is widely known to contain the highest quality photojournalism in the world, with each life-like, authentic photograph allowing readers to visually explore the new worlds they are learning about. In addition to each page and photograph, the archive will include the detailed maps published by the magazine throughout its history. The maps help to provide context and reference for readers who are learning about unknown and often remote regions and cultures for the first time.

For more information on the National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994, please visit http://gdc.gale.com/ or contact Kristina Massari at kristina.massari@cengage.com.

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iBooks 2 and iBooks Author: Another opportunity & headache

People wax nostalgic about the smell of books, but no one pines for the smell of textbooks. They smelled like glue, they were heavy, and they were—usually—boring. So we were happy to read Apple’s announcement of iBooks 2 and iBooks Author: finally, a kind of book everyone wants to see go digital fast.

It’s a great announcement for digital publishing, for readers, and for platform and tool creators like us. It also raises some interesting complications that we’ve spent months tackling. Here’s how we’re looking at this announcement at Vook.

The Good

eBooks Really Matter

Finally, eBooks are coming of age. This was not an Apple announcement about a new app creation platform. This is about eBooks—and we understand and obsess over eBooks in all of their various incarnations at Vook. Apple really is committing to eBooks. That means great enhanced reading experiences are going to start coming more and more from iBooks instead of the iTunes App store. In turn, eBooks are going to get more attention, more user adoption and more momentum.

The Complicated

More proprietary files

iBooks Author outputs an entirely new file format called “.ibooks.” This is a proprietary file format that only plays in iBooks (edit: it’s not quite epub2 and it’s not quite epub3, nor is it quite XHTML5—plus the widgets are iBooks built-in components rather than open standards JS). As one of our colleagues remarked, “Reminds me of another file format (Amazon’s .mobi, anyone?)”. More file formats—especialy more proprietary file formats (or formats intended for only one device)—means more restrictions for content, more headaches for creators, and less freedom for consumers. The title you produce with iBooks Author aren’t for Amazon, on BN, on Google Books. It’s one channel only.

The Future

More problems = more opportunity

When people write a book, they want that book to be available everywhere. Not just on one platform or device. They want as many people to be able to read their book as possible. Which is why this is announcement has us so happy at Vook. Our platform allows you to build and create files in ePub and Mobi, for Amazon, BN, iBooks, Kobo and others. Vook is not a proprietary format, though we can produce those files. We serve as many of the distributors as possible, bringing your content—and making sure it looks great—to the vast diversity of existing devices and platforms.

The titans of digital book delivery seem to be arming themselves for war. It’s like something out of a textbook on World War II. But Vook lets publishers, creators and content holders work with all of the major players. We’re like the Switzerland of digital publishing. And like the Swiss, our technology is absolutely world class.

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Friday, January 20, 2012

Department of Justice shuts down Megaupload, arrests executives

The Department of Justice has just shut down cyberlocker Megaupload, arrested a number of its executives including founder Kim “Dotcom” Schmitz, and seized $50 million in assets. Megaupload was in the news last month for its spat with Universal over an allegedly fraudulent DMCA takedown of a promotional music video. Now the DoJ has announced it has been investigating the company for two years, and finally decided to move. Ars Technica reports:

The indictment charges that the "Mega conspiracy" has for more than five years operated websites that willfully distributed pirated movies, often before their theatrical release, and other illegal copies of copyrighted works, earning the company over $175 million in illegal profits through advertising revenue. Megaupload is also charged with money laundering by paying uploaders through an "uploader reward program," and paying other companies to host the pirated content.

Another Ars piece goes into a lot more detail on the charges and supporting evidence the DoJ brings to its case. The DoJ holds that the DMCA’s safe harbor provisions do not apply to Megaupload because the company’s employees were fully aware that they were illegally offering copyrighted content (including, of course, e-books)—and company email and chat logs prove it.

The company also charges that the DMCA file removal tools Megaupload offered didn’t really remove the files, just one of the (potentially many) links to its location. It paints the site as seeking a veneer of legitimacy by planning to file suits against its competitors while being fully aware of how bad its own behavior was.

Not necessarily all of what the DoJ accuses is actually illegal, however. Law professor James Grimmelman told Ars that many of the practices listed in the indictment were industry-standard promotional techniques, such as premium subscriptions and rewards for active users, that are used by many fully legitimate sites. Says Grimmelman:

"I hope that if this case goes to trial and results in convictions, that the court will be careful in sorting out just what Megaupload did that crossed the line of criminality."

Of course, the shuttering of Megaupload doesn’t just hurt pirates, as there were a lot of legitimate files shared through it. For example, mods for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind were hosted on a variety of cyberlocker sites, including Megaupload, and any Megaupload links will now no longer work.

It also calls into question whether any of the other user-upload cyberlockers, such as RapidShare and HotFile, are long for this world either. I can’t imagine that investigators would focus on only Megaupload to the exclusion of the others. Undoubtedly Megaupload was the rottenest apple of the bunch, but it didn’t seem to offer a markedly different service from the others.

Something else a lot of sites are pointing out is that this comes right after the anti-SOPA/PIPA blackout, and seems to demonstrate that we don’t need any additional laws to take down pirate operations—the DoJ is having no trouble knocking down Megaupload with the laws currently on the books.

Of course, not everyone is happy about this, and today we’re seeing a different kind of “blackout” as Anonymous attacks the websites of the Department of Justice, the White House, the MPAA, the RIAA, and various other entities. Way to make Megaupload’s defenders look good, guys. With “friends” like that, it’s doubtful Megaupload needs any additional “enemies”.

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Self-published plagiarism problematic for Amazon

Amazon has a bit of a public relations problem stemming from the prevalence of plagiarized self-published books and e-books on the site, Fast Company reports. Especially in the erotica section, Amazon is rife with republished works taken from the public domain or other authors—and no matter how fast they remove them, the perpetrators continue to perpetrate more.

When PaidContent looked into the matter, an Amazon representative told them that they do use screening software and have “worked steadily to detect and remove” copyright violators, and have removed thousands of such works over time. The representative declined to provide any details, however.

There’s no question that Amazon has been working on winnowing out duplicates, including both copyright violators and PLR (“Private Label Rights”) republished work—as shown by this example from August. But is it doing enough? Fast Company suggests some other things Amazon could try:

Why not require an author to submit a valid credit card before she can self-publish her works on the Kindle? If an author, who could still publish under a pen name, were found to have violated someone else’s copyright Amazon could charge that card $2,000 and ban her from selling again. Amazon could also run content through one of the many plagiarism detectors that are available–such as Turnitin or iThenticate–before an ebook is put on sale.

Of course, the credit card idea might be going too far to the opposite extreme—but as ineffective as Amazon’s efforts seem from time to time, it might benefit by doing something more.

It is questionable whether Amazon could effectively be taken to court over the issue, as legal experts state that Amazon is not legally required to act unless it knows about a specific infringement. Some of the issues PaidContent mentions are, interestingly enough, the same ones that apply to file-sharing site Megaupload which just got taken down by the Department of Justice and may well end up losing its safe harbor protection.

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