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Quartz
The reign of the consumer magazine — glossy, beautiful, and once a ubiquitous presence atop living room coffee tables around the world — seems to be quietly crumbling.
Print books are making something of a comeback right now, thanks in part to the rise of coloring books and a swelling public interest in children's literature. Newspapers, catering to hyper-local communities, are faring pretty well, too.
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Digital Book World
2015 was a big year for libraries' digital efforts, with a record number of readers borrowing e-books and digital audiobooks.
Overdrive, the leading supplier of digital content to libraries and schools, reported that, in 2015, readers borrowed more than 169 million e-books. This marked a 24-percent increase over 2014. There was also a notable spike in audiobook usage, which saw a faster growth rate than e-book library borrowing.
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The Guardian
I left school with a burning urge to lead the life of a writer: traveling like Byron, feted like Wilde before his fall, creating laughter like Wodehouse and crafting sentences like Nabokov. I had no professional contacts, so I wrote my masterpieces speculatively, and every path I went down ended with a rejection slip or total silence. The perceived wisdom then, as now, was that earning a living as a writer was about as likely as winning a lottery.
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Slate
Every time you open Facebook, one of the world's most influential, controversial and misunderstood algorithms springs into action. It scans and collects everything posted in the past week by each of your friends, everyone you follow, each group you belong to, and every Facebook page you've liked. For the average Facebook user, that's more than 1,500 posts. If you have several hundred friends, it could be as many as 10,000.
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re/code
Longer tweets are coming soon to Twitter.
Twitter is building a new feature that will allow users to tweet things longer than the traditional 140-character limit, and the company is targeting a launch date toward the end of Q1, according to multiple sources familiar with the company's plans. Twitter is currently considering a 10,000 character limit, according to these sources.
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Tech Crunch
There has been a bit of fussiness in publishing over the past few weeks regarding the rise of used bookstores as cultural centers/ways to screw writers. While many are coming down on the side of "any exposure, even through piracy" is good, many more writers are taking the "pay the writer" tack. The good news is that they're both right.
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The Atlantic
A ship lands on an alien shore and a young man, desperate to prove himself, is tasked with befriending the inhabitants and extracting their secrets. Enchanted by their way of life, he falls in love with a local girl and starts to distrust his masters. Discovering their man has gone native, they in turn resolve to destroy both him and the native population once and for all.
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Vulture
The right book, it's said, can change your life. Some books can alter perceptions of the world, or let a reader see life from a perspective they may never have considered before. Others expand the sense of what's possible within the confines of a narrative; still others tell stories that the reader might not have ever expected to find themselves hearing. With a New Year just beginning, it's an ideal time to seek out books that have a track record of changing lives.
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