Libraries Are Concerned About the Lack of New e-books in the Kindle Format (GoodeReader)
Libraries all over the US have expressed concern to Good e-Reader that the vast majority of new e-book titles from Overdrive are not available in the Kindle format.
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Trade Agreements Should Protect an Open Internet, Not Kill It (Techdirt)
For a few years now, we’ve been writing about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, and how we’re quite concerned by many aspects of it.
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In the Age of Niche Media, Everyone Still Really Wants to be Mass (GigaOM)
In a nutshell, De Boer said that his problem with many of the new-media sites that have popped up over the past year, such as Fusion — which was launched recently by the Fusion network, a cable channel co-owned by Disney/ABC and Univision that caters to millennials — is that they share a certain sameness of content.
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‘Birdman’ Drives Interest in Raymond Carver Collection (PW)
Birdman—winner of three Oscars on Sunday night, including Best Picture—is doing good things for Raymond Carver.
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Kindle Daily Deals: We Are Called to Rise (and others)