Will E-Books Return with Amazon Kindle? (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News) In the heat of the dot-com boom, tech companies promised that the e-book would bring traditional print publishing into the digital age. Several devices did hit the market -- notably the RocketBook and the SoftBook Reader -- but they fell flat....more...Will E-Books Return with Amazon Kindle? (Wireless Newsfactor) In the heat of the dot-com boom, tech companies promised that the e-book would bring traditional print publishing into the digital age. Several devices did hit the market -- notably the RocketBook and the SoftBook Reader -- but they fell flat. As a result, the promised e-book economy, in which book publishing could be freed from the restrictions of the printing press, also failed to ......more... Building a Better Team (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News) Stephen Joyce is the author of the Amazon (NasdaqGS:AMZN - News) best seller Teaching an Anthill to Fetch: Developing Collaborative Intelligence @ Work. An international speaker, Stephen loves to help companies develop the collaborative intelligence of their teams and organization. He and I recently corresponded by e-mail about his new book. Here is an edited transcript....more... Book drive to support troops (Leesville Leader) The Leesville/Fort Polk campus of Northwestern State University has begun a book drive to benefit children of deployed troops....more... Turning Photos Into Comic Book Art With Intocartoon (TechNewsWorld.com) While watching "Who Wants to Be a Super Hero" with my six-year-old the other night, I became intrigued by the way the show segued to commercials. It froze the video and transformed the freeze frame into comic book art. That kind of metamorphosis can be performed on digital photos, too. Some photo editing programs include "art" filters that let you convert a photographic image....more... Celebrated authors to attend book festival (Arroyo Grande Times Press Recorder) Book lovers by the thousands are expected to converge on San Luis Obispo Mission Plaza for the eighth annual Central Coast Book & Author Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday....more... Ashburn Resident To Speak About Networking Book Wednesday (Leesburg Today) Ashburn author Dan Williams will discuss his new book, Tales from the Networking Community, Networking, Like Life, Is A Process Not An Event Wednesday at the Comfort Suites in Leesburg....more... Book signing (St. Clair County Journal) Caseyville resident Cindy Sarro, author of the "The Wall," will be doing a book signing from 2 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Spring Garden Restaurant at 921 Vandalia in Collinsville....more... Romney pays magazine to e-mail LDS readers (The Salt Lake Tribune) WASHINGTON - Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is targeting fellow Mormons for financial support, as evidenced by a fundraising appeal last week e-mailed to subscribers of LDS Living magazine....more... |