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[ 13.09.09 ] A clear example of naïve thinking: immaterial is equated with ecological, which makes an e-book greener than a printed work. Whether this simple formula works when it comes down to the details is a matter for experts on the mathematics of recycling. For while with e-books you obviously save lots of paper and transport fuel, you still need an electronic reading device. The cost of materials ... tovább

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[ 05.09.09 ] Time and again, it’s astonishing how greatly the dynamics of things can develop out of rigorous restrictions. The limit in this case is set at 140 characters - fewer are fine, more are not. And yet we are hearing and reading more and more about these few handfuls of letters. Twitter.com is finally ripe for the library. Some time ago we reported on our pages about some very old-school ... tovább

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[ 31.08.09 ] Slowly but surely the most leisurely time of the year is drawing to a close. The media machine is once again spewing out bulletin upon bulletin about the coming autumn book season. So here’s our little weekly literature ticker with some of the most important items. Microsoft, Amazon, and Yahoo’s declaration that they want to join the Open Book Alliance has caused quite a stir. ... tovább

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[ 24.08.09 ] It was a shock for the German-language publishing world. On 10 August, the Swiss publisher Egon Ammann announced he would shut down the renowned Ammann Verlag (publishing house) for good by mid 2010. This would mean the end of a successful enterprise that devoted itself to fine literature shortly before its thirtieth anniversary. In 1981, Egon Ammann and Marie-Luise Flammersfeld founded the ... tovább

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[ 16.08.09 ] The countdown is on. Only three more weeks to go: 4 September marks the deadline for opting out of the Google Book settlement , in other words, the deadline for copyright holders to file an objection to the proposed agreement on how their works are used. Those who do not file automatically accept the settlement. Probably very few of those concerned have studied the fine print in the ... tovább

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[ 10.08.09 ] In the end, the books were piled up on every available surface. On the couch, under the coffee table and, of course, on metres upon metres of shelving in the basement of the one-family house in Lochham, a suburb of Munich. Over decades, Georg Salzmann had collected all the books that had been blacklisted by the Nazis shortly after they seized power in 1933. On 10 May 1933, numerous public ... tovább

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[ 31.07.09 ] Amikor felkértek arra, hogy Kínáról, illetve Kínáról mint a 2009 őszi Frankfurti Könvvásár díszvendégéről írjak, szkeptikus voltam. Igaz, jártam már Kínában – és Tajvanon – ha csak pár hetet is töltöttem ott. Három évvel ezelőtt tanulmányoztam a nyelvet, az országot és a kultúrát – csak hogy hétről hétre jobban értsem, milyen keveset is tudunk. De ... tovább

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[ 25.07.09 ] A nyári pangás idején, amikor nincs semmi érdekes csak a közmondásos Kínában kiborul zsák rizsről szólnak a tudósítások. Az emlékezet rése másrészt, amikor a Nagy Testvér a nemkívánatos tartalmat megsemmisíti, hogy az eltűnjön a vidám felejtésben. Éppen ez történt július közepén George Orwell klasszkusával, az 1984-gyel. Egyszer csak eltűnt – és a nyári ... tovább

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[ 13.07.09 ] The events of the 2009 Hebrew Book Month, which takes place every June, were especially stormy, though not necessarily for the right reasons. The general carnival atmosphere which always characterizes the plethora of events, lectures and meetings with authors was overshadowed by events that took place at the forefront of the major bookshops and behind the scenes of Israeli publishing. ... tovább

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[ 06.07.09 ] Aren’t some people resourceful! While a number of multimedia researchers are still playing around with vooks, trying to figure out how to unite books and videos profitably, other inventors have created a brand new concept for electronic reading, namely, the ‘ Book2Look ’. What is an attractive and nicely-designed opportunity for publishers to give interested readers access to a few ... tovább

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[ 28.06.09 ] Proverbs are little aids for all kinds of everyday situations. For example, when a person again forgets to congratulate a colleague or sweetheart in time for their birthday, he or she can nonchalantly claim ‘better late than never’. In this same vein - and while the readings for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize at the 2009 Festival of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt are in full ... tovább

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[ 22.06.09 ] "Azt hiszem, bármely könyvet vook-olhatunk" – mondja Bradley Inman vállalkozó a szilikon-völgyből, aki ’vook’ néven hozott létre vállalatot. A vook nagyjából azt jelenti, hogy egy könyvet vagy egy szöveget és egy videót egyesítünk, plusz még egy kis társadalmi hálózat. Még ha a vook feltalálói és ideológusai lelkesen skandálják is  a ... tovább

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[ 12.06.09 ] ‘Please use in well ventilated area. May cause dizziness and hallucinations. May cause itching and runny nose.’ The warnings printed on the new miracle remedy for the nostalgia of fashion-conscious consumers of literature are really quite something. Whoever wants to read beautifully must suffer, so the saying goes, and the same seems to be true of the latest achievement in e-book culture: ... tovább

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[ 04.06.09 ] 2009 is another Galileo year. To be precise, Galileo Galilee made his first discoveries in astronomy exactly 400 years ago, and with them turned our view of the world, indeed, our civilisation, upside down. In Florence, this anniversary has become an opportunity to ponder the relationship between science and literature more deeply. The Italian Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale (Digital ... tovább

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[ 28.05.09 ] The poet Carol Ann Duffy has just been appointed Britain’s first Scottish and female poet laureate . She is ‘thrilled’ to have been offered the position and has accepted purely because ‘they hadn’t had a woman’ before. It is the first time that the public has been invited to put forward names for the post to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The final choice lies ... tovább

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