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For my own purposes I've been collecting various ebook-related posts for a while now and in particular the whole HarperCollins/library/ebook/Overdrive thing is a valuable source of lots of speculation and information. What I have below no doubt only represents a fairly small percentage of the…
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I'll be doing a session at the upcoming ScienceOnline 2011 conference on ebooks with David Dobbs, Tom Levenson and Carl Zimmer: Here's the description: Sunday, 11.30-12.30 eBooks and the science community - Carl Zimmer, Tom Levenson, David Dobbs and John Dupuis Ebooks are by far the fastest growing…
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