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archivlibrarianist · 5 months

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Short version: publishers are price gouging libraries that make electronic books available to their patrons.

From the article:

"CT Library Consortium Executive Director Ellen Paul told legislators that librarians pay half price for most print books in their collections, but e-books are a different story.

"According to Paul, e-books cost six to 10 times more than a print book and are removed from the collection after either two years or 26 borrows.

"'Connecticut libraries, they just can’t keep up. The waitlists for e-books are over six months long. Our budgets are strained because we have to keep rerenting Harry Potter at the same exorbitant prices over and over again,' Paul said."

#libraries #public libraries #Connecticut libraries #American libraries #ebooks #electronic books #book publishing #price gouging #support your local public library

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picturebookshelf · 3 months

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Spidey Makes A Splash (2023)

Story and Art: Unknown (Premise Entertainment)

#spiderman #the hulk #black panther #iron man #spider gwen #ms marvel #marvel #miles morales #gwen stacy #peter parker #electronic books #picture books #kid books #kidlit #children's books #2020s #20s

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meep-morp-p · 6 months

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#palastine #Free gaza #educational resources #ebooks #electronic books

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epicallychrissy · 2 years

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Welcome to my weird ass mind. First, let me say that fanfiction writing is a valid form of writing. I will (and do) sit for hours scrolling through my favorite ships in my favorite fandoms and consume mass quantities of stories of all kinds on my phone, tablet or laptop. But I don't think I could read it near as much if I held a physical book in my hands. Conversely, I have trouble reading stories that are considered traditional writing in electronic form- I much prefer holding a physical book. So it boils down to; fanfiction must be read on my phone and books must be a physical hard copy. Why am I so weird?? Does this even make sense?? Ugh. We now send you back to your regularly programmed scrolling.

#reading #fanfiction #physical books #electronic books #traditional writing #im fucking weird #personal #no one reads this anyway

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prosegalaxy · 4 days

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A clash of eras, two worlds collide, As cultures clash, and heroes hide. In ancient Rome, a warrior stands tall, But in the modern age, a tech wizard calls. Their fates entwined, destiny unfolds, As time's fabric weaves tales of old. A struggle for survival, a dance of fate, Two souls united, two hearts debate. In this poem, two worlds collide, A conflict born, emotions hide. Through love and loss, they find their way, In rich text, a story to display.

#writing #literature #digital reading #e #electronic books #storytelling #novel #eReader #kindle #amazon #publishing #self #indie author

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yourhomebizcoach · 5 months

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The Use of E-Books Is Increasing Every Day

Books have quickly changed from being ordered by mail using a catalog to being ordered online and then instantly downloaded to your computer to be read on a screen or printed on a home printer. E-books are currently one of the most popular subjects in the library and book industries. Both the more recent e-books and hard-copy books have a place in our lives. E-books are identical to physical…

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#E-book #eBook #electronic books #eLibrary #entertainment #reading #shopping

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thebotanicalarcade · 1 year

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n304_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: British plant-galls London,Methuen & co. ltd.[1912] biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57102659

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egophiliac · 1 year

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oh no, I love them

(super quick doodles done between other stuff, there will be better things later I promise :')

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #spoilers spoilers spoilers #me when the shroudparents walk in: what. why. what is this.#me thirty seconds late: never mind they are AMAZING #i mean yeah idia kind of offhandedly mentioned it way back when #in episode 6 when he was like 'my parents have to wear special equipment to deal with the debilitating effects of the curse'#'and to hide their identities as a french electronic synth-pop duo' I GUESS #no no it's okay. mrs shroud you are kind of insane and i love you #GROUP HUG EVERYBODY!!!!!#mr shroud you put up with a lot but somebody's gotta remember to do the paperwork #daft punk bert and ernie is the best possible dynamic for them #and THEY LOVE THEIR ROBOT SON #i'm so happy for ortho #(hovering around the subject of dreamworld ortho. ...we'll get to that)#man though now that i know what they're like #when idia busted in to show them how he built himself a replacement brother #mrs shroud was probably just like 'this is exactly what i would have done. let mama give you some pointers on joint mechanics'#i know i'm in the minority on genuinely unironically loving overblot idia #(YES he's weird but it's a weird i'm into!)#i am DELIGHTED by the design parallels. he looks like his dad!#but with his mom's ears!#ah it's so good

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theemomarshmallow · 2 years

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I think I just found my life’s purpose. And it’s all thanks to Prue batting a stick around the kitchen just a few days ago-and my ever persistent love of stories and writing. 🥺

#author #print books #electronic books #self publishing #fiction writer #it sounds beautiful #it sounds like fun

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tutorialsportal · 2 years

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#pros and cons #advantages and disadvantages #ebook #e book #electronic books

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in-study-hell · 2 months

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I was overseas when HCs10 started btw so I drew on paper instead.

#Originally I was determined to not touch both electronic and trad methods of art for my trip #But my parents saw I was miserable and gave me a book and pen anyways lol #The draws aren’t very good that’s why it took me so long to upload them #Hermitcraft #lmao I spelled that wrong at first!! I’m washed up

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easternmind · 1 year

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Flash warning.

To refer to LSD: Dream Emulator as a game can be as misleading as it is reductive. It was a three-pronged attack on contemporary art conventions as they existed in the mid-to-late 1990s, one comprised of an interactive dream, a profusely illustrated journal, and an avant-garde electronic music album. It was also the most sophisticated coalescence of art and interactive media coming out of Japan at the time. There had never been anything like it before. One may even argue there has never been anything quite like it since.

#lsd dream emulator #osamu sato #promotional advertising #trailer #art #disruptive #avantgarde #playstation #electronic music #book #website #dream journal #the 90s #japan #design #flash warning

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simdertalia · 10 months

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📌 ACNH Office Set 🧾

53 items | Sims 4, Base game compatible

Use the scale up & down feature on your keyboard to make the items larger or smaller to your liking. If you have a non-US keyboard, it may be different keys depending on which alphabet it uses.

Always suggested: bb.objects ON, it makes placing items much easier. For further placement tweaking, check out the TOOL mod.

Type “animal crossing office” into the search query in build mode to find quickly. You can always find items like this, just begin typing the title and it will appear.

As always, please let me know if you have any issues! Happy Simming! 💗

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mostlysignssomeportents · 2 months

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The Cory Doctorow Humble Bundle

I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in TUCSON (Mar 9-10), then San Francisco (Mar 13), Anaheim, and more!

It's been 21 years and 29 days since Tor Books published my first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. In the years since, Tor has published every one of my novels, sending me around the USA and Canada to talk about them. Now, they've teamed up with Humble Bundle to sell 18 of my ebooks on a name-your-price basis, with part of the proceeds going to benefit EFF:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/cory-doctorow-novel-collection-tor-books-books

I've been associated with EFF even longer than I've been published by Tor! My first novel came out while I was working EFF's first-ever booth at CES. I split my time between the booth and my motel room, where I paid $0.25/call to dial up to Earthlink's local number and manage the launch-day publicity. Over the years, I've benefited immensely from Tor's editorial and publicity departments, working with brilliant publishing people like Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Patty Garcia, Dot Lin, Laura Etzkorn, Elena Stokes, Sarah Reidy, Lucille Rettino, and of course, Tor founder Tom Doherty.

But I like to think that it was a two-way street. Tor and I have come a long way together on ebooks: most visibly, they allowed me to publish several novels under Creative Commons licenses (my first book was the first ever CC book, coming out just weeks after the licenses themselves launched). As my editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden said at the time, "Ebooks have the worst hours-in-meeting-to-dollars-in-revenue ratio of anything in my publishing career. Why not?"

https://craphound.com/down/download/

Just as important – but less visible – was Tor's willingness to let me insist that all my books be published without DRM, meaning that anything you buy on say, Amazon, can be moved to any reader program if you decide to start getting your ebooks elsewhere. This worked so well that in 2012, Tor became the first major publisher in the world to ban DRM on all its ebooks, flying me, John Scalzi and Charlie Stross to New York City to announce it this at a big, splashy event at Book Expo America:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130512022634/https://tor.com/blogs/2012/06/tor-books-announces-e-book-store-doctorow-scalzi-a-stross-talk-drm-free

Tor's unique status as the sole major DRM-free publisher in the world was well timed! That same year, I curated the very first Humble Ebook Bundle, which was very top-heavy with Tor titles, and raised more than $1,000,000 for the writers, publishers and charities associated with it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121017215636/http://www.humblebundle.com/

That opened the floodgates to a series of Humble Bundles, tempting other major publishers to dabble with DRM-free, including Simon and Schuster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-I5QyAfglU

And Harpercollins:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHMLfeCrCrE

Now, 12 years after that inaugural Humble Ebook Bundle, I find myself honored by being the subject of a bundle of my own (it helps that I've written a hell of a lot of books in the intervening years). Included in the bundle are (nearly) all of my Tor novels and novellas: The Lost Cause; "The Canadian Miracle" (a Lost Cause story); Red Team Blues; Radicalized; Walkaway; "Party Discipline" (a Walkaway story); Pirate Cinema; Rapture of the Nerds (with Charlie Stross); For The Win; Makers; Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town; Eastern Standard Tribe, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother, Homeland, Attack Surface, and "Lawful Interception" (a Little Brother story).

(The sole exclusion is The Bezzle, which came out two weeks ago and is already a USA Today national bestseller!)

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Also included in the bundle is Poesy the Monster Slayer, my 2020 picture book for the littlies:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626723627/poesythemonsterslayer

All these books are delivered as DRM-free epub files. The Bundle runs for the next three weeks, and the minimum buy-in is $18 – that's just $1/book (full retail value is $187). Of course, you can name a higher price, and, as with all Humble Bundles, you can adjust the final split to share out the money between me, EFF, and the Humble folks.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/03/humbly-bundled/#eff-too

#pluralistic #ebooks #publishing #science fiction #tor books #tor #macmillan #drm #drm-free #eff #electronic frontier foundation

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stone-cold-groove · 7 months

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The Physics of Television: Vision Beyond Sight - 1960.

#vintage books #vintage illustration #television #physics #vintage electronics #crt tv #cathode ray tube #science study series

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postpunkindustrial · 8 months

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Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound by Tara Rodgers

Get it from my Google Drive HERE

Pink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and installation and performance artists. The collection is an extension of Pinknoises.com, the critically-acclaimed website founded by musician and scholar Tara Rodgers in 2000 to promote women in electronic music and make information about music production more accessible to women and girls. That site featured interviews that Rodgers conducted with women artists, exploring their personal histories, their creative methods, and the roles of gender in their work. This book offers new and lengthier interviews, a critical introduction, and resources for further research and technological engagement.

Contemporary electronic music practices are illuminated through the stories of women artists of different generations and cultural backgrounds. They include the creators of ambient soundscapes, “performance novels,” sound sculptures, and custom software, as well as the developer of the Deep Listening philosophy and the founders of the Liquid Sound Lounge radio show and the monthly Basement Bhangra parties in New York. These and many other artists open up about topics such as their conflicted relationships to formal music training and mainstream media representations of women in electronic music. They discuss using sound to work creatively with structures of time and space, and voice and language; challenge distinctions of nature and culture; question norms of technological practice; and balance their needs for productive solitude with collaboration and community. Whether designing and building modular synthesizers with analog circuits or performing with a wearable apparatus that translates muscle movements into electronic sound, these artists expand notions of who and what counts in matters of invention, production, and noisemaking. Pink Noises is a powerful testimony to the presence and vitality of women in electronic music cultures, and to the relevance of sound to feminist concerns.

Interviewees: Maria Chavez, Beth Coleman (M. Singe), Antye Greie (AGF), Jeannie Hopper, Bevin Kelley (Blevin Blectum), Christina Kubisch, Le Tigre, Annea Lockwood, Giulia Loli (DJ Mutamassik), Rekha Malhotra (DJ Rekha), Riz Maslen (Neotropic), Kaffe Matthews, Susan Morabito, Ikue Mori, Pauline Oliveros, Pamela Z, Chantal Passamonte (Mira Calix), Maggi Payne, Eliane Radigue, Jessica Rylan, Carla Scaletti, Laetitia Sonami, Bev Stanton (Arthur Loves Plastic), Keiko Uenishi (o.blaat)

#book #tara rodgers #annea lockwood #pamela z #le tigre #ikue mori #Pauline Oliveros #Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound

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