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1 week ago | Notes: 27

Which Publishers Are the Best at Selling Ebooks in 2013?

Here are the top-five publishers so far in 2013:

1. Hachette: 88 appearances
2. Random House: 87 appearances
3. Penguin: 42 appearances
4. Self-published: 22 appearances
5. Macmillan: 18 appearances

See the rest of the list.

Three things we learned:

1. Self-published books are making more waves this year than ever before. Some 7% of all weekly best-sellers were self-published in the first quarter of 2013 and two No. 1 best-sellers in that time. In the weeks since, there have already been two more No. 1 best-selling self-published ebooks.

2. Penguin Random House will dominate the best-seller list when the merger between the two large publishers closes in the second half of 2013. Between the two of them, they published 40% of the best-sellers in the first quarter of 2013.

3. Harlequin has begun to figure out how to find mass-market success with ebooks. Harlequin has not benefited from the rise of ebooks despite the huge popularity of romance ebooks. The largest publisher of romance titles has seen more of its paperback business disappear than it has been able to replace with a rise in ebook sales so far. But in the first quarter of 2013, Harlequin had a handful of hits on the best-seller list, indicating that it might be turning its digital performance around.

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1 week ago | Notes: 72

jaymug:

Vintage Apple Advertising - Simplicity is the ultime sophistication

Vintage Apple Advertising - Simplicity is the ultime sophistication

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1 week ago | Notes: 94

jaymug:

Are you happy?

Are you happy?

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1 week ago | Notes: 16

"We’ll ask them to tell us about times that they’ve owned projects from start to finish. We’ll talk about tying results to customer demands. We tend to look for real, practical work experience."

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Amazon’s director of global university programs talks about what the company looks for in applicants.

How to get hired by Amazon and other top tech companies

(via fastcompany)

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1 week ago | Notes: 62528

student: can i borrow a pencil
teacher: i don't know, CAN you?
student: yes, also colloquial irregularities occur frequently in any language and since you and the rest of our present company understood my intended meaning being particular about the distinctions between "can" and "may" is purely pedantic and arguably pretentious

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betype:

Ira Glass Quote

Ira Glass Quote

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1 week ago | Notes: 29

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You see, we’ve come to define “social” in unintentional Orwellian double-speak. “Social” has come to mean the exact opposite of what it’s meant for centuries. Instead of actual interaction and communication, we define “social” as once- or twice-removed ego validation through button-clicking.

“Social” is what happens when someone posts personal information—photos, thoughts, announcements, favorite songs, jokes—on the internet and another person comes along and clicks a thumbs up icon or a star or a heart. If someone’s really “social,” they’ll even type a comment or reply.

Kids aren’t leaving social networks. They’re redefining the word “social.” Rather, they’re actually using the word with the intent of its original meaning: making contact with other human beings. Communicating. Back-and-forth, fairly immediate dialogue. Most of it digitally. But most of it with the intent of a conversation where two (or more) people are exchanging information and emotion. Not posting it. Exchanging it.
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Teens aren’t abandoning “social.” They’re just using the word correctly.

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A great post by Cliff Watson, found via @janchip

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2 weeks ago | Notes: 13

"Technology is at its best when it is invisible. I am convinced that technology is of greatest benefit when it displaces the deleterious, unnatural, alienating, and, most of all, inherently fragile preceding technology. Many of the modern applications that have managed to survive today came to disrupt the deleterious effect of the philistinism of modernity, particularly the 20th century: the large multinational bureaucratic corporation with “empty suits” at the top; the isolated family (nuclear) in a one-way relationship with the television set, even more isolated thanks to car-designed suburban society; the dominance of the state, particularly the militaristic nation-state, with border controls; the destructive dictatorship on thought and culture by the established media; the tight control on publication and dissemination of economic ideas by the charlatanic economics establishment; large corporations that tend to control their markets now threatened by the Internet; pseudo-rigor that has been busted by the Web; and many others. You no longer have to “press 1 for English” or wait in line for a rude operator to make bookings for your honeymoon in Cyprus. In many respects, as unnatural as it is, the Internet removed some of the even more unnatural elements around us. For instance, the absence of paperwork makes bureaucracy — something modernistic — more palatable than it was in the days of paper files. With a little bit of luck a computer virus will wipe out all records and free people from their past mistakes."

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The future will not be cool — www.salon.com — Readability (via ario)

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2 weeks ago | Notes: 6

"New technologies are being used to send pictures of your cat halfway around the world,” Thiel said. “We’ve talked ourselves into thinking that throwing cats at birds is the best we can do. We can do more than that."

- Peter Thiel: Twitter will outlast the New York Times - May. 1, 2013 (via futuristgerd)

Source: futuristgerd

Your sign’s deepest secret.

1 month ago | Notes: 62393

Aries

Taurus

Gemini

Cancer

Leo

Virgo

Libra

Scorpio

Sagittarius

Capricorn

Aquarius

Pisces

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2 months ago | Notes: 2

infographicjournal:

A Brief History of Samsung Mobile Phones

infographicjournal:

A Brief History of Samsung Mobile Phones

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Reminds me of White Collar

2 months ago

Boston art heist: FBI says it has solved mystery of $500m theft

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2 months ago | Notes: 1985

"Only American audiences ask me, “What should I do?” I’m never asked this in third world. When you go to Turkey or Colombia or Brazil, they don’t ask you, “What should I do?” They tell you what they’re doing… These are poor, oppressed people, living under horrendous condition, and they would never dream of asking you what they should do. It’s only in high privileged cultures like ours that people ask this question… We can do anything. But people here are trained to believe that there are easy answers, and it doesn’t work that way. If you want to do something, you have to be dedicated and committed to it day after day. Educational programs, organizing, activism. That’s the way things change. You want a magic key, so you can go back to watching television tomorrow? It doesn’t exist."

- Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions, p. 39-40 (via goleyaas)

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2 months ago | Notes: 16

fancyhands:

Time is money. Are you wasting both at work?

Time is money. Are you wasting both at work?

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2 months ago | Notes: 95

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Driverless car technology has the very real potential to save millions from death and injury and eliminate hundreds of billions of dollars of costs. Google’s claims for the car, as described by Sebastian Thrun, its lead developer, are:

We can reduce traffic accidents by 90%. We can reduce wasted commute time and energy by 90%. We can reduce the number of cars by 90%.
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- Fasten Your Seatbelts: Google’s Driverless Car Is Worth Trillions - Forbes Gerd adds: this is huge, indeed - must pay more attention to it;)

Source: futuristgerd