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Seth Godin has a suggestion for bringing a 500 year old technology up to speed with today’s fiber optic standards.  Citing the recent release of the final Harry Potter book and its $20 million security tab, Godin suggests that because books are so “slow,” it is becoming increasingly expensive to keep their secrets

“My solution? A [...]

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It is a paradoxical situation, but it’s true; libraries are the most technologically adroit institutions to date. Even though the mere word “library” evokes images of dusty, lonely stacks, and little old ladies in cardigans, they happen to be home to some of the most advanced search engine algorithms anywhere. Perhaps earning an MA in Library [...]

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It worked for music, why not for books?  Both Amazon and Google are dicing up written content to sell in bite sized portions.

From the New York Times:
The idea is to do for books what Apple has done for music, allowing readers to buy and download parts of individual books for their own use through [...]

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