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By Evan Schnittman
You have heard rumors of it for nearly a year now – Amazon has an ebook reader that will run on a new ebook 
platform powered by Mobipocket. Well, after many stops and starts, today Amazon released Kindle, or, what I call the “readers’ iPod.” This device, coupled with the awesome power of the Amazon web sales machine, represents perhaps the most significant moment in the history of eBooks.
I have always maintained that the iPod coupled with iTunes model is the key to a compelling ebook business. The iPod, perhaps the most fantastic device any of us own, would have been just another cool device sitting in our junk drawer if Apple hadn’t been prescient about the duality in digital content; Device + Network = Adoption. (more…)
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Our inveterate reference librarian, Tam, in the OCLC Information Center forwarded a bit to me this morning from Web Worker Daily:
Bring on Information Overload: It’s Good for You
I have chosen to believe it wholeheartedly, because it some ways it excuses my now perpetual shock each afternoon when I realize, OMG
the day is over already. And I have not accomplished nearly half of what was on my prioritized daily task list, even with all the little As and Bs and numbers beside each one! (Oh
Stephen Covey, I do remember the
parable of the rocks...)
I say this, knowing full well I have succumbed and requested a blackberry...which will make it better, right??
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