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Amazon eBook pricing war: Thanks for being evil, Apple

Judi Sohn

Apparently, Amazon is now getting push back from publishers, starting with Macmillan, who want them to charge more than $9.99 Macmillan, like other publishers, has asked Amazon to raise the price of electronic books from $9.99 Remember when Apple faced off with NBC over similar issues back in 2007? for e-books. to around $15.

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Amazon eBook pricing war: Thanks for being evil, Apple

Judi Sohn

Apparently, Amazon is now getting push back from publishers, starting with Macmillan, who want them to charge more than $9.99 Macmillan, like other publishers, has asked Amazon to raise the price of electronic books from $9.99 Remember when Apple faced off with NBC over similar issues back in 2007? for e-books. to around $15.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

of legally blind children in public and residential schools used braille as their primary reading medium. The increasing focus on digital content, rather than its printed form, and the shift to electronic distribution of ebooks pave new avenues for removing the barriers to accessibility. This is important here in the U.S.,

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I came away with a much better understanding of the issues they are exploring and certainly did my part to articulate why I support the positions we have. We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month.

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E-books for Social Strategy

Connection Cafe

Nonprofits struggling to communicate complex issues in 140 characters can benefit from deploying e-books and other long-form content as part of a thoughtful mobile and social media strategy. A well formatted ebook has none of those issues. Unfortunately, there isn't one publication standard that works across all e-readers.

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How Social Housing Goes Customer-First

Saleforce Nonprofit

Such a siloed way of working led to angry customers and agents frustrated by their inability to share status updates and resolve issues quickly. I often hear from housing organisations that they want to give their customers the “Amazon” or “DPD” experience, but are hindered by the technology traditionally offered in the nonprofit sector.

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[VIDEO] Building Your Nonprofit’s Engagement Engine

Bloomerang

” You can find it on Amazon, but I’m going to sort of give you a cheat sheet today and share some of the principles in it with you so you don’t have to buy the book. People who might care about the issue but it may not be a primary priority for them, either programmatically or philanthropically.

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