Behold Wesley Crusher: Teenage F*** Machine, the Amazon Kindle's new…

Over the past several days, a certain Star Trek: The Next Generation prose piece has ensnared the popular imagination the world over. It's a story that's been recycled since time immemorial, due to its sheer cross-cultural thematic resonance.

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How to make a book fetishist fall in lust with an e-book reader

I am a book fetishist. I love the feel of an old book, its soft pages and slightly musty smell. The frayed edges of its hard cover. And I love the starchy slab of a new paperback. How can decidedly unsexy e-book readers ever quench my book lust? Well, it turns out that they can - if they're enclosed in the right cover …

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EFF Implores Readers To Stand Up For Their (Digital Book) Rights

Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation is testifying at a hearing on the Google Books Settlement, arguing the company's ebook service will track what people read online. Worried about your book-reading privacy? EFF has also just released an e-book privacy guide.

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The Future Belongs to the Marketing Department

In science fiction, humanity usually embraces new technologies because those technologies are innovative, improve our lives, and let us do things we only dreamed of before. But if Amazon’s futuristic Kindle becomes this holiday season’s hot gift, it will have less to do with the e-book reader’s features than with… Read…
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