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Consumerism meets marketing; who & what manipulates the free market of goods & services. See also: http://www.kitsch-slapped.com/category/ze-big-mouth-promotions-stuff/
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US mobile game revenues (including both downloads and in-app purchases) leads growth of $10 billion mobile content market as ebook and music downloads stagnate, according to new figures from eMarke...

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Dutch courts lets ebook reseller stay online - PCWorld

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Tom Kabinet offers a platform that it says lets users legally sell used ebooks. Sellers have to declare they obtained their copies legally and agree to delete their versions when a sale is made.

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Seth's Blog: An end of books

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Books, those bound paper documents, are part of an ecosystem, one that was perfect, and one that is dying, quickly. Ideas aren’t going away soon, and neither are words. But, as the ecosystem dies, not only will the prevailing corporate...
Deanna Dahlsad's curator insight, September 6, 2013 5:19 PM

I don't agree with many of Seth's points; and not just because I'm a stubborn book lover. Here are my top 4 (quick) cautions:


The ever-increasing price of ebooks no longer makes ebook as seductive, so I and many others are back to paper book purchases.


Libraries are more than books -- especially to middle and lower class folks.


"Single tasking" is far more productive than multi-tasking, and, hopefully sooner rather than later, the cultre will move back to focusing on what one's doing.


Then there's the whole "power of the object" thing, which motivates not just collectors but humans at large.

Deanna Dahlsad's comment, September 6, 2013 8:50 PM
Thanks, Gracie :)
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