The Great Library of Amazonia
..., he had left his job at Thinking Machines, the legendary builder of massively parallel supercomputers, and devoted himself full-time to refining and selling WAIS.
To Kahle, it was obvious that vast amounts of useful material could be shared with the general public via computers, but the Web did not......more...Saving Collectibles to the Macs
...rely someone can resell an Apple luggage tag on eBay without the company catching on?
Most people can, but McKay and Naughton run a thriving business selling Apple-logo merchandise on the Web. As the founders of RedLightRunner.com, they probably have more Apple-logo goods than Apple does.
How Apple ......more... USA Today's News Is Fiction
...0-word story is only available online, is free and will remain in the site's archive.
Whitney Matheson, the program's director, said that the idea of selling all the stories as a print book has certainly crossed the editors' minds. But nothing is in the works right now.
USA Today pays less than $10,......more... Simon Says: Buy E-Books Here
...s from nearly every division of Simon Schuster, making possible the instantaneous purchase of e-books. Hundreds of titles, including those from best-selling authors Stephen E. Ambrose, V.C. Andrews and Stephen King, will be for sale ?- some for only $5.
All titles will be offered at a 20 percent di......more... Eight Copies Sold Is Enough
...g Frankenstein.... A page-turning contest.... and more, in M.J. Rose's notebook.
By M.J. Rose
2:00 a.m. Oct. 9, 2001 PDT
Along with the likes of best-selling authors Joyce Carol Oates and David McCullough -- whose works were nominated for Wednesday's Frankfurt eBook Awards -- is an author who's only......more... Sex Author Has a Bright Idea
...sex, horror and business.
Bright's book covers all aspects of erotica -- from thinking about it to reading it, writing it, editing it, publishing it, selling it and doing it.
I want people to write frankly about sex. I want to see an end to erotic illiteracy and to the censorship of sexual speech, s......more... E-Books Are Now on the Shelf
...y that no one communicates better with their book-loving customers, a pilot program starts this week with four independent bookstores.
In addition to selling e-books from their online sites, the stores will be testing numerous methods to cross-market e-books with traditional forms, including in-stor......more... From Rejection to E-Lation
... they are deliberately trying to not make money.
Saying that he would not have self-published the book without the Net, Bluemthal praised the ease of selling via online bookstores and credited the people he?s met in different listserves at Egroups.com in helping get out the word on Dorfman.
People h......more... E-Books Go Back for the Future
...ain or out of print.
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Big, bigger, biggest book site: By early 2001, LibraryCard hopes to become the largest booklist in the Web world.
As well as selling books, the company will assist readers who don't want to buy a book at all -- by finding out if the title is available at a local library.
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