Searching for profits with Amazon - Inside the book and in the margins

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Amazon.com unveiled the 'Search Inside the Book' technology in 2003, which makes searchable every page of text by keyword in more than 120000 titles and presents digital images of actual book pages to consumers. Some publishers are criticizing Amazon for risking book sales at the expense of its own development as search engine. The premier debate surrounding Amazon's technology is of rights and potential piracy.

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From Clinton to Bush, literacy to war: The political contexts of Oprah's Book Club

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The political contexts that help position the cultural work of Oprah Winfrey's Oprah's Book Club (OBC) are discussed. The political contexts include the American national literacy policy during the 1990s, particularly the Bill Clinton administration's literacy campaign launched in 1996 and the George W. Bush administration's foreign policy.

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Faces in the mirror: five decades of research and comment on the book trade 1931-2001

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Eight classic studies on book publishing are examined. The industry has not shied away from self-examination and therefore has been able to keep up with the changing needs of the book-buying public and changes in the industry itself.

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