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		<title>Philip M. Parker uses algorithm to generate hundreds of thousands of ebooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Warner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philip M. Parker]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This story isn&#8217;t entirely new, but as computing power increases we&#8217;re likely to see such things happening more frequently: thanks to a system that algorithmically compiles data into book format, a professor from the INSEAD business school has created hundreds of thousands of ebooks that can be purchased from Amazon. Philip M. Parker has been &#8230; <a href="http://indiebookspot.com/2012/12/16/philip-m-parker-uses-algorithm-to-generate-hundreds-of-thousands-of-ebooks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indiebookspot.com&#038;blog=31916038&#038;post=6459&#038;subd=indiebookspot&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Psy&#8217;s Gangnam Style shows that copyright infringement can be a boost</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 22:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Warner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gangnam Style]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people knew this already, but the recent success of Psy&#8217;s Gangnam Style video has arguably demonstrated yet again that copyright infringement can actually boost the performance of a media product. As Techdirt notes, Psy has enjoyed huge success &#8211; and raked in a lot of money &#8211; thanks, in part, to his &#8230; <a href="http://indiebookspot.com/2012/12/15/psys-gangnam-style-shows-that-copyright-infringement-can-be-a-boost/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indiebookspot.com&#038;blog=31916038&#038;post=6456&#038;subd=indiebookspot&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon launches Chinese Kindle store, but faces possible regulatory problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 22:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Warner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ebooks China]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon has finally launched its long-awaited Chinese Kindle store, but there&#8217;s a catch: the store isn&#8217;t actually selling physical Kindles, but instead encourages Chinese users to download customized iOS and Android apps. The store apparently has roughly 22,000 Chinese-language Kindle titles, with no sign so far that indie Kindle books are on the way. The &#8230; <a href="http://indiebookspot.com/2012/12/15/amazon-launches-chinese-kindle-store-but-faces-possible-regulatory-problems/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indiebookspot.com&#038;blog=31916038&#038;post=6454&#038;subd=indiebookspot&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Borrows worth $1.90 for KDP Select authors in November</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Warner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[KDP Select rates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The KDP Select borrow rate for November 2012 was $1.90, according to Amazon. That&#8217;s the lowest figure since January, with the rate having hovered a little over the $2 mark for the rest of the year. Given the size of the &#8216;pot&#8217; made available to cover borrows, that suggests there was a rise in the &#8230; <a href="http://indiebookspot.com/2012/12/14/borrows-worth-1-90-for-kdp-select-authors-in-november/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indiebookspot.com&#038;blog=31916038&#038;post=6446&#038;subd=indiebookspot&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are dead people &#8216;liking&#8217; Facebook pages?</title>
		<link>http://indiebookspot.com/2012/12/12/are-dead-people-liking-facebook-pages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Warner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft Surface ebooks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While many authors and brand managers are keen to amass as many &#8216;likes&#8217; as possible on Facebook, ReadWrite has an interesting story in which it&#8217;s claimed that a dead user was allegedly &#8216;liking&#8217; pages several months after his passing! The gist of the story is that a Facebook user alleges that one of his friends &#8230; <a href="http://indiebookspot.com/2012/12/12/are-dead-people-liking-facebook-pages/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indiebookspot.com&#038;blog=31916038&#038;post=6442&#038;subd=indiebookspot&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon launches Canadian Kindle store</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Warner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon has launched a Canadian Kindle store, offering Kindle ebooks direct to Canadian customers for the first time (rather than making them go through the .com site). The move hasn&#8217;t yet been mentioned in a press release, but the new store seems to have gone live some time in the past twenty-four hours. Kindles aren&#8217;t &#8230; <a href="http://indiebookspot.com/2012/12/07/amazon-launches-canadian-kindle-store/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indiebookspot.com&#038;blog=31916038&#038;post=6421&#038;subd=indiebookspot&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nancy Huston wins Literary Review&#8217;s Bad Sex award</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Warner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nancy Huston has won this year&#8217;s Bad Sex award, for her novel Infrared. Only the third woman to win the prize in its twenty-year history, and she has the disadvantage (or advantage?) of writing primarily in French and then translating her work into English. Although she was unable to attend the prize-giving ceremony in person, &#8230; <a href="http://indiebookspot.com/2012/12/07/nancy-huston-wins-literary-reviews-bad-sex-award/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indiebookspot.com&#038;blog=31916038&#038;post=6413&#038;subd=indiebookspot&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon launches new &#8216;all you can eat&#8217; Kindle FreeTime Unlimited services for families</title>
		<link>http://indiebookspot.com/2012/12/06/amazon-launches-new-all-you-can-eat-kindle-freetime-unlimited-services-for-families/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Warner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ebook subscriptions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon has launched a new service called Kindle FreeTime Unlimited that offers a kind of &#8216;all you can eat&#8217; selection for families. Subscribers pay a monthly fee in return for unlimited access to more than a thousand selected ebooks, movies, TV shows, apps and games aimed specifically at kids aged between 3 and 8. You &#8230; <a href="http://indiebookspot.com/2012/12/06/amazon-launches-new-all-you-can-eat-kindle-freetime-unlimited-services-for-families/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indiebookspot.com&#038;blog=31916038&#038;post=6407&#038;subd=indiebookspot&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Woman sued over online review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Warner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ebook reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An American woman has been sued after posting a scathing online review of a building contractor. While the story obviously isn&#8217;t directly related to ebooks, it does serve as a reminder that reviews can be seen as a form of libel if the reviewer makes false claims. How long before a reviewer on Amazon faces &#8230; <a href="http://indiebookspot.com/2012/12/06/woman-sued-over-online-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indiebookspot.com&#038;blog=31916038&#038;post=6404&#038;subd=indiebookspot&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon and Google launch eBookstores in Brazil</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Warner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amazon Brazil]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon and Google have both launched ebookstores in Brazil. The amazon.com.br site has been rumoured for a while, and has now launched (albeit so far without much fanfare) with the usual offerings including pre-orders for Kindle devices and a range of titles from Brazilian and international publishers. Google has also launched Google Play in Brazil, &#8230; <a href="http://indiebookspot.com/2012/12/06/amazon-and-google-launch-ebookstores-in-brazil/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indiebookspot.com&#038;blog=31916038&#038;post=6399&#038;subd=indiebookspot&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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