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		<title>6 Questions for Amanda Close of Random House, on launch of book discovery Facebook app BookScout [INTERVIEW]</title>
		<link>http://bookmachine.org/2013/04/05/6-questions-for-amanda-close-of-random-house-on-launch-of-book-discoverability-facebook-app-bookscout-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 06:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie O’Rourke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Worried about Amazon buying up GoodReads? Have no fear: Random House, Inc have launched BookScout a new social book discovery app on Facebook. The app allows readers to create and organize their own digital bookshelves and explore friends’ bookshelves to learn what others are reading. BookScout encourages organic word-of-mouth recommendations as people can share what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#Amazonageddon Halts US Online Book Purchase For&#8230; Several Hours</title>
		<link>http://bookmachine.org/2012/11/12/amazonageddon-halts-us-online-book-purchase-for-several-hours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 06:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Felice Howden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At some stage last week while I was asleep, buy buttons were removed from Big 6 (5?) publishers Hachette, Penguin, Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon &#38; Schuster. What followed was a brief turd storm of concern, blame and speculation about what these publishers had done to bring forth the wrath of Bezos, followed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lower Ebook Prices Does Not Equal More Readers</title>
		<link>http://bookmachine.org/2012/10/22/lower-ebook-prices-does-not-equal-more-readers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 05:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Felice Howden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week saw the declaration by Amazon that the dissolution of agency pricing in the US was a &#8220;big win for customer&#8220; and that they look forward to lowering prices on more ebooks in the future. It&#8217;s slightly surreal for me to read that lower ebook prices is something anyone would &#8216;look forward&#8217; to, given how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did you hear JK Rowling has a book out today? No, really!</title>
		<link>http://bookmachine.org/2012/09/27/did-you-hear-jk-rowling-has-a-book-out-today-no-really/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 06:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Ward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In news that has gone so far from the definition of &#8216;news&#8217; that it has circled back round upon itself to become newsworthy again, today sees the publication of JK Rowling&#8217;s first post-Harry Potter novel, the adult-orientated The Casual Vacancy. I know, it caught me utterly unawares too. Take a minute to regain your composure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kobos and Kindles: New Additions and Winning Combinations</title>
		<link>http://bookmachine.org/2012/09/10/kobos-and-kindles-new-additions-and-winning-combinations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Felice Howden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week saw the release of a new Kobo range, and (not to be outdone) the yearly release of the new Kindle line. Despite Bezos&#8217; insistence that he doesn&#8217;t need his customers on the &#8216;upgrade treadmill&#8217;, Amazon released an upgrade to pretty much every single one of their devices, including two new Kindle Fire tablets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Sock puppets!&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://bookmachine.org/2012/09/04/sock-puppets/</link>
		<comments>http://bookmachine.org/2012/09/04/sock-puppets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Ward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late on Friday night, a tweet from the writer Alan Gillespie appeared on my feed that read &#8216;Read @jeremyduns&#8216; timeline for a literary Hollyoaks episode. Mental.&#8217; It was accompanied by retweets of Ian Rankin, saying &#8216;I&#8217;m sitting here, numb, staring at @jeremyduns timeline this evening&#8230;. &#8216;, and of Duns himself, who said &#8216;If you want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon&#8217;s Press Conference: What Can We Expect?</title>
		<link>http://bookmachine.org/2012/09/03/amazon-press-conference-what-can-we-expect/</link>
		<comments>http://bookmachine.org/2012/09/03/amazon-press-conference-what-can-we-expect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 05:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Felice Howden</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bookmachine.org/?p=4084</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sales figures. A detailed breakdown of sales of devices by country, including market share, plus a deep look into the data they hold for each customer, as well as how their recommendation system works. CEO Jeff Bezos is likely to unveil their print-to-ebook sales ratio, alongside comparative figures of how each version of Kindle has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New deals for NOOK, Kobo and Kindle, some combination thereof</title>
		<link>http://bookmachine.org/2012/08/30/new-deals-for-nook-kobo-and-kindle-some-combination-thereof/</link>
		<comments>http://bookmachine.org/2012/08/30/new-deals-for-nook-kobo-and-kindle-some-combination-thereof/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Ward</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bookmachine.org/?p=4075</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You know how before you got to see The Avengers you had to sit through all the Iron Mans and Captain Americas and Scandinavian God Fall Downs, so that all the preliminary character work was done and blowing stuff up could commence immediately? Well, that&#8217;s an exceedingly generous analogy to draw to the contents of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon taking this whole Indian Summer idea a tad literally</title>
		<link>http://bookmachine.org/2012/08/23/amazon-taking-this-whole-indian-summer-idea-a-tad-literally/</link>
		<comments>http://bookmachine.org/2012/08/23/amazon-taking-this-whole-indian-summer-idea-a-tad-literally/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Ward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evidently determined to prove that Barnes and Noble isn&#8217;t the only digital bookseller that can expand to new territories this week, why should it be?, Amazon is taking the Kindle to India. Hear that Barnes and Noble? That&#8217;s the second most highly populated country in the world &#8211; 1,241,491,960 people at last count, second only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rise of the Machines: Amazon e-book sales pass print</title>
		<link>http://bookmachine.org/2012/08/07/rise-of-the-machines-amazon-e-book-sales-pass-print/</link>
		<comments>http://bookmachine.org/2012/08/07/rise-of-the-machines-amazon-e-book-sales-pass-print/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Ward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a moment everyone always knew was coming, and it&#8217;s finally here: Amazon said yesterday that sales of Kindle downloads have officially sailed past print sales in the UK. Of course, it can say anything it likes, because its figures remain unaudited and, given the lack of further comment on the matter, look likely to [...]]]></description>
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