Amazon Gets a Patent on Kindle X-Ray, Public Notes (The Digital Reader)Morning Roundup
Amazon wasn’t the first to think of adding extras to ebooks but they could well be the last to add the X-Ray feature and public highlights.
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Bookstores Tired of Being Amazon Showrooms (Good e-Reader)
Bookstores are often a place for people to discover their next read. Unfortunately, a large demographic of younger people aren’t buying their books from retail, but instead buying them online. A recent survey by the UK Booksellers Association polled 2,000 young people and 63.5% admitted to the practice. Older readers tend to do this as well, with 51.7% over the age of 55.
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Yahoo Acquires Multimedia Storytelling App Qwiki (GigaOM)
Yahoo announced that it acquired Qwiki, a company that provides a storytelling app on mobile. Yahoo has been on an acquisition tear recently, from large companies like Tumblr down to smaller startups.
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What Makes an Editor a Professional? (An American Editor)
The world is filled with editors and wanna-be editors. I suspect not a day goes by when, on some forum on the Internet, someone declares their passion for books and how much (and how long) they desire to be an editor. They then go on to ask how to become an editor.
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Kindle Daily Deals: “A Drink Before the War” by Dennis Lehane (and 3 others)

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