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Friends of the Libraries: One library is better than none
The contractor has begun working on the roof at the Costa Mesa/Donald Dungan Library! The roofers have been very busy, which makes me think they will get the job done on time so that we can get back into the library on schedule. In the meantime, you can...Tags: Mother's Day, Mountains, Poetry, Landforms, Apple iPad
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Texas woman self-publishes first book, hits best-seller lists
SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — After a feverish month of inspiration, Colleen Hoover had finally fulfilled her dream of writing a book. With family and friends asking to read the emotional tale of first love, the married mother of three young...Tags: The Avett Brothers (music group), MySpace, Social Media, Science and Technology, Electronics
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E-books help fuel gains in U.S. book sales in 2012
Book sales rose 6.2% last year in the U.S., thanks to the continued growth of electronic publishing, according to newly released StatShot data from the Assn. of American Publishers. Electronic books, which a decade ago represented a tiny fraction of the...
Tags: Apple Inc., Book, Literature, Arts and Culture
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Amazon extends AutoRip perk to vinyl records
Amazon.com's AutoRip, which gives customers free digital copies of CDs they purchase, is now available for vinyl records -- including those purchased in the past. Starting Wednesday, when customers buy AutoRip-eligible vinyl records, MP3 versions of the...
Tags: Bruno Mars, Music, Entertainment, Sound Recordings, Services and Shopping
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Kindle TV? Amazon reportedly working on its own set-top box
Apple and Roku's dominance in the Internet-streaming TV set-top box market might be about to get interrupted by Amazon.com, which is reportedly working on a box of its own. The giant online retailer is working on a device due later this year that...
Tags: Marketing, Auction Service, Apple TV, Netflix Inc., Amazon.com Inc.
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Getting published is only half the battle
Dear sir or madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write. Will you take a look? So begins the Beatles' "Paperback Writer," a song whose lyrics take the form of a query letter by a fledgling author to a publisher. The subsequent verses nail...Tags: Entertainment, Book, Festive Events, Radio, Google Inc.
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Amazon announces it will buy book-recommendations site Goodreads
Amazon.com Inc., which started as an online bookseller before becoming the e-commerce behemoth it is today, is buying book-recommendations site Goodreads. Amazon announced the deal Thursday. The purchase price was not disclosed. Goodreads, a San...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Jeff Bezos, Book, Otis Chandler, Amazon.com Inc.
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Amazon to buy book-focused social network Goodreads
Amazon.com Inc., which got its start as an online bookseller, went on to create the Kindle e-reader and has gotten into book publishing, is now pushing into the social side of reading. The world's largest online retailer said Thursday that it had agreed...Tags: Apple Inc., Jeff Bezos, Books and Magazines, Carolyn Kellogg, Social Media
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Amazon's purchase of Goodreads panned -- on Goodreads
Over at the social reading website Goodreads, people take pleasure in writing reviews. Usually, they write about the books they’re reading. But in the last 24 hours, many have taken to reviewing Goodreads itself, and its sale to the book behemoth...
Tags: Otis Chandler, Amazon.com Inc.
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Amazon goes social, acquires Goodreads
Amazon announced Thursday that it is acquiring social reading website Goodreads. The deal, which will be finalized in a few weeks, is the most prominent acquisition of a major book-focused startup in recent years. On Thursday afternoon, Goodreads...
Tags: Book, Social Media, Science and Technology, Steve Jobs, Google+
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Amazon creates 'Send to Kindle' button for quickly saving articles
Amazon.com has introduced a way for users to quickly save and send news articles as well as other items to their Kindle devices for later, off-line reading. "The Send to Kindle Button lets people easily send that content to their Kindle so they can it...
Tags: BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, Google Inc.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos hails recovery of some Apollo F-1 engines
Jeff Bezos: founder and CEO of Amazon.com, and now, bona fide ocean explorer. A year after vowing to send a team into the ocean to find F-1 engines from the historic Apollo 11 moon launch, Bezos announced Wednesday that the team had recovered F-1 engine...
Tags: Jeff Bezos, Bodies of Water, Apollo Moon Mission (1961-1975), Atlantic Ocean, Petroleum Industry
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