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• Free ebooks appear to boost sales | Blog | Futurismic - There has been a lot of criticism of the practice by some writers and lots of praise from other corners. At the moment, it looks like the practice works.

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• Put Not Your Faith In Ebook Readers - Frankly, book reading just isn’t important enough to qualify for priority treatment in that marketplace. Meanwhile, handheld game consoles, phones, and other multipurpose devices have found their way into the hands of people from every walk of life. (is

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• Seth Godin gives good advice to the music industry - Boing Boing - transcript of a fantastic talk he gave to some music execs about the future of the music industry and the Internet. This is some good straight-shooting insight about what the music industry will never succeed at (suing fans) and what they could do instead

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Via Greg “Beatiful Code” Wilson :

The Friends of the Merril are having a Flea Market on Saturday September 8th, from 10-4, at the Toronto Reference Library (just north of Bloor on Yonge). Second-hand, collectible, or one-of-a-kind: all sorts of SF and Anime merchandise will be available.

The Friends of the Merril Flea Market is going to be in the Beeton Auditorium at the Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge St. Toronto. That’s 2 blocks north of Yonge. (Gmap link)

The Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy is a Huge collection of over 63,000 items(!!!) started when pioneering science fiction author/editor/goddess Judith Merril donated her personal collection to the Toronto Public Library.

Note: the collection is housed on College Street near Spadina; not near Yonge and Bloor, and the flea market is not at the collection.

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• A prototype-checklist : doing common things the prototype way (or taking advantage of those extra 100 KB in your page) - A great set of code examples of doing things the Prototype way. - Javascript
• TOKYOMANGO: Superflat Panda Swallows Cell Phone, Then Girl - Great little animated short mostly made up of Takashi Murakami’s graphic work for Louis Vuitton. It’s like the crazy, postmodern, luxury, Japanese version of Alice in Wonderland. Very Kawaii
• via boingboing - the noted Serbian feminist writer and activist Jasmina Tesanovic (and married to Bruce Sterling), has just released her latest novella, “Nefertiti,” as a free, Creative Commons -licensed download.

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The Accelerando Technical Companion is a technical companion to Charlie Stross’s latest novel, Accelerando,

Cool! and part of Wikibooks, a collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit……..as an addition to my ExoCortex…I could use this….I was thinking (I know, I know) building a Accelerando vocabulary and using GreaseMoney to build a Hyper-glossary of the html texts…hmm…

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Author Cory Doctorow - and Boing Boing co-editor, and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) European Outreach Coordinator - is doing a Book Launch at Toronto’s Bakka Phoenix Books on Monday July 11 (2005)@ 7PM to celebrate his newest book “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town” (Amazon USA ISBN: 0765312786).

Currently I’m a 1/4 the way thur and enjoying it, especially the Kensington Market (Toronto) setting.

This is at Bakka’s wonderful new location : 697 Queen St. West, half a block west of Bathurst, on the south side of Queen (GMap).

I will not be able to accost Cory on his visit ( and buy a horde of books ), but I’m sure he’ll have lots of fun as he takes a break from teaching the Clarion Writers’ Workshop at Michigan State University.

Confirmed by Cory

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The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories, Edited by Theodore W. Goossen, 496 pages, Nov 2002, ISBN-10: 0192803727, ISBN-13: 978-0192803726

The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories includes many new, specially commissioned translations, and is the only anthology to span the whole of Japan’s modern era. Beginning with the late nineteenth-century writings which first assimilated and reworked Western literary traditions, and coming right up to the younger generation dealing with the pitfalls and paradoxes of modern life, this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the development of the Japanese short story,

Beginning with the first works to affect Western literary tradition, through the flourishing of the genre in the Taisho era, to the writers working under literary censorship, and the current writings reflecting modern life’s paradoxes, this anthology offers a survey of the Japanese short story.

Oxford Press

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