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We played two complete games today of FFG's new Mansions of Madness. The forces of ancient evil one both times, perhaps a tiny bit more than narrowly. Still, it was easy to see how more familiarity with the game and sound strategy by the good guys would have given them a chance. Read more...

San Antonio Board Gamers, Yesterday, 7:10pm

NRC Chairman Resigns

Section: hardware, Department: let's-all-get-along
Slashdot, Yesterday, 6:58pm

Foxconn Invests $210 Million To Build New Production Line For Apple

Section: hardware, Department: crank-it-out
Slashdot, Yesterday, 6:02pm

Rutger's Student Dharun Ravi Sentenced To 30-Day Jail Time

Section: yro, Department: go-directly-to-jail
Slashdot, Yesterday, 5:15pm

Perl 5.16.0 Released

Section: developers, Department: check-it-out
Slashdot, Yesterday, 4:47pm

Mega-Uploads: The Cloud's Unspoken Hurdle

Section: hardware, Department: mountain-of-disks
Slashdot, Yesterday, 4:26pm

SCOTUS Refuses To Hear Tenenbaum Appeal

Section: entertainment, Department: pay-up
Slashdot, Yesterday, 3:38pm

White House Petition For Open Access To Research

Section: science, Department: show-your-work
Slashdot, Yesterday, 3:13pm

Maryland Teen Wins World's Largest Science Fair

Section: science, Department: wonders-of-evaporation
Slashdot, Yesterday, 2:50pm

Allowing the Mind To Wander Aids Creative Problem Solving

Section: idle, Department: daydream-a-better-tomorrow
Slashdot, Yesterday, 2:09pm

Google Chrome Becomes World's No. 1 Browser

Section: news, Department: top-of-the-class
Slashdot, Yesterday, 1:23pm

GO EQUIPMENT

del.icio.us/tag/boardgames, Yesterday, 1:04pm

Quirk Books publisher offers advice on dealing with digital disruption

How can publishers thrive in a digitally-disrupted world? David Borgenicht, president and publisher of Quirk Books (best known for publishing Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) has some advice for other publishers. The five quick tips basically boil down to creating as engaging a product as possible, and then marketing effectively in order to grow new [...] Read more...

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home, Yesterday, 1:04pm

The Leap: Gesture Control Like Kinect, But Cheaper and Higher Resolution

Section: hardware, Department: all-the-better-to-track-you-with
Slashdot, Yesterday, 12:40pm

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404 - This feed has not been updated in years. Please update your links. [T7n/kQ], Yesterday, 12:36pm

Why advertising could become Amazon’s knockout punch

It all started harmlessly enough with Amazon’s Kindle with Special Offers. That’s the cheaper Kindle that displays ads when the device is in sleep mode or at the bottom of the screen when paging through the owner’s catalog of books. It is very unobtrusive and, since it lowered the price of the device, has made [...] Read more...

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home, Yesterday, 12:33pm

DGS - Status

del.icio.us/tag/boardgames, Yesterday, 12:25pm

Facebook Shares Retreat Below IPO Price

Section: news, Department: back-to-reality
Slashdot, Yesterday, 11:55am

London Law

del.icio.us/tag/boardgames, Yesterday, 11:29am

The State of Linux Accessibility

Section: linux, Department: all-inclusive
Slashdot, Yesterday, 11:09am

Review of QuickSearch PDF Reader

From The Unoffical Apple Weblog: If you’re someone who does a lot of work on the road, and needs to reference PDF source material, you’ll find that QuickSearch PDF (US$4.99) from Olive Toast Software is the tool you didn’t realize you needed. It has one job to do — to help you find information inside large PDF [...] Read more...

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home, Yesterday, 10:56am

paidContent 2012 on Wednesday; TeleRead will be there

paidContent’s annual conference will be held in New York on May 23. I’ll be there covering the event for you. There will be a number of speakers in the ebook/epublishing arena including: James McQuivey, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Bob Sauerberg, President, Conde Nast Nick Bogaty, Director of Business Development, Digital Publishing Group, Adobe Systems [...] Read more...

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home, Yesterday, 10:48am

Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Monitor Traffic?

Section: technology, Department: keeping-an-eye-on-things
Slashdot, Yesterday, 10:24am

Reasons to buy a tablet [cartoon]

Originally published on Ebook Friendly. Check all cartoons. Read more...

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home, Yesterday, 10:20am

BooksOnBoard’s Top Ten Bestselling eBooks This Week in the US

From the press release: A new New York Times bestseller has captivated BooksOnBoard audiences on both sides of the Atlantic this week: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel. Historical fiction is one of those genres that doesnt often make its presence known on our top ten lists, remarked Nathan Johnson, BooksOnBoards Director of Operations. [...] Read more...

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home, Yesterday, 10:19am

CourseSmart introduces ecommerce platform for etextbooks in UK and Europe

From the press release: CourseSmart®, the world’s largest provider of eTextbooks and digital course materials, today announced its continued international growth with the launch of an eCommerce platform in the UK and Europe. The platform provides students access to eTextbooks and digital course materials anytime, anywhere from any web-enabled device. Students in the UK and Europe will also [...] Read more...

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home, Yesterday, 10:10am

One reader prefers new iPad to an actual magazine

From an article by Farhad Manjoo in Slate: … It’s taken time for the magazine industry to catch up to the new iPad—only in the last few weeks have some of my favorite magazines, including the New Yorker, released apps that take advantage of the Retina display. But now that they have, the iPad has [...] Read more...

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home, Yesterday, 10:04am

White House Hires a New Cybersecurity Boss

Section: it, Department: who's-in-charge
Slashdot, Yesterday, 10:00am

Hachette starting library ebook pilot program

From paidContent: Hachette, which has not made new e-books available to libraries since 2010, is reconsidering the idea. In a pilot program starting this spring (which is…now?), the publisher is working with two e-book distributors to bring a “selection of HBG’s recent bestselling e-books to 7 million library patrons.” Hachette would not confirm which distributors [...] Read more...

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home, Yesterday, 9:49am

Все о настольных играх - tesera.ru

del.icio.us/tag/boardgames, Yesterday, 9:45am

Kobo’s new web app: good for Kobo, but not for readers

Here’s part of an article by Chris Walters from his BookSprung blog: Kobo’s new web app, released earlier this week, is a great first move at breaking free from Apple’s App Store extortion. Good for Kobo, I say. Unfortunately, it keeps the same design and user experience as the official Kobo app, which means it’s [...] Read more...

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home, Yesterday, 9:39am

Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally For a More Kosher Internet

Section: technology, Department: hold-the-spam
Slashdot, Yesterday, 9:38am

And Then There was One: Redux

Last week I wrote about my experience with Barnes & Noble’s customer service and how frustrating I found B&N’s attitude. Ted Weinstein twitted about the article and received back a suggestion that ‘Dan’ at B&N be contacted, with an e-mail address. Ted was kind enough to post that reply as a comment to the article. [...] Read more...

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home, Yesterday, 9:27am

Best Board Games. Compare, reviews & ratings.

del.icio.us/tag/boardgames, Yesterday, 9:26am

How to install the Aldiko Book Reader on Kindle Fire?

From the Aldiko blog: Many Kindle Fire users have asked us how to install the Aldiko Book Reader on their Kindle Fire, below we are going to share two easy methods to you. Downloading and installing directly to your Kindle Fire: (1) At the top of the Kindle Fire menu, select the Gear (settings) icon [...] Read more...

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home, Yesterday, 9:20am

Make money fast…by self-publishing Kindle e-books?

Did you know you can “get rich quick” selling Kindle e-books? Well, all right, maybe not get rich, but make at least “$1,000 per month” on it? I came across a post on Methods2Earn outlining the idea. Basically, the idea is that you research Amazon’s best-seller lists to find out what people want to buy, [...] Read more...

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home, Yesterday, 9:15am

Waterstones to sell Kindles

From Shelf Awareness: Waterstones, the last major independent bookstore chain in the U.K., will begin selling Amazon Kindles and e-books in its nearly 300 stores this fall, the companies announced today. Although Kindles are sold in a variety of bricks-and-mortar retailers, this is the first time that the e-readers are available in traditional bookstores. The [...] Read more...

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home, Yesterday, 9:14am