3 privately owned, commercial space stations get NASA funding

NASA announced on Thursday it has awarded $415.6 million US to billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, stalwart contractor Northrop Grumman Corp and venture-backed Nanoracks to develop privately owned and operated commercial space stations. Continue reading at 'CBC'

[ CBC | 2021-12-03 12:56:05 UTC ]
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Louisiana residents choose libraries over jail to receive funds

Residents of Lafourche Parish in Louisiana recently voted down a proposal that would have used money currently going to local libraries to build a new prison. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corp., Wall Street Journal owner, reports 3% lower revenue

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's publishing company News Corp. swung to a profit in its fiscal first quarter -- its first financial reporting period as a stand-alone company -- but revenue slipped nearly 3%.     Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corp Reports 3 Percent Drop in Revenue in First Quarter

News Corp, the recently spun off publishing side of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, reported that its revenue fell in the first quarter of its fiscal 2014, due to lower advertising revenue and foreign exchange fluctuations. The company re ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Progress for community-owned bookshop

Residents of Wandsworth in London have seen their dream of opening an independent bookshop move a... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Malala's book banned in private schools in Pakistan

The All Pakistan Private Schools Management Assn. represents 40,000 affiliated schools across Pakistan and has banned the book from its libraries.Malala Yousafzai has become an international celebrity. In her book "I Am Malala," the Pakistani teen who survived being shot in the head by a member... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon's Matchbook service now live, works with over 70,000 books for $3 or less

Amazon's Matchbook service, which offers ebook versions of hard copies of books like Amazon's Autorip offers digital versions of physical music, is now live. The service supports over 70,000 books at launch with digital equivalents costing $3 or less. The service recognizes purchases from as far... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2013-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The PW Frankfurt Show Daily: Day 3, October 11, 2013

Get complete coverage of the Frankfurt Book Fair with the PW Frankfurt Show Daily. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'</em>s Comic Book Easter Eggs: Episode 3

Just like the Marvel movies, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. enjoys adding references to the more obscure details of the Marvel Universe as tiny presents for longtime readers of the comic books. And we enjoy breaking them down.     Continue reading at Wired

[ Wired | 2013-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Space Exploration Looks Even More Awesome in Lego

There's no denying that two of the greatest things humankind has done is go to space and invent LEGOs. Therefore, combining these two passions can only yield something amazing. And that's exactly what has come from two brick-based artists named Peter Reid and Tim Goddard in a book called LEGO... Continue reading at Wired

[ Wired | 2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: Working the Digital Content Space

Uncertainty is one big obstacle holding publishers back from outsourcing their distribution, observes CEO Gareth Cuddy of ePubDirect. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones auction raises £75k for Children's Reading Fund

Waterstones has raised over £75,000 for Booktrust's Children's Reading Fund at a... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Samsung's Galaxy Tab 3 Kids get real, ready to 'make learning fun'

It peeked its head out just a day ago by way of a Korean back-to-school catalog, and now Samsung's ready to let its kid-friendly cat out of the bag. The Galaxy Tab 3 Kids is, as the name implies, aimed at ever more tech savvy young ones, featuring a child-friendly skinned Android 4.1 and a slew... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2013-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Galaxy Tab 3 gets rebranded as 'Homeboy' for launch on LG's Korean mobile network

Considering that Korea's warring giants don't get along too well, it's amusing to see LG offering a Samsung-made tablet on LG U+, the latter's domestic cellular network. The "Homeboy" is a re-branded Galaxy Tab 3 that plugs into U+'s services, including TV channels, music, video, ebook and... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2013-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corp Launches Global Private Ad Exchange

News Corp today announced plans to launch a global programmatic ad exchange that will let advertisers buy across its more than 50 online and mobile products including WSJ.com, Times.co.uk and NYPost.com. News Corp is far from the first to jump on the automated selling trend; other premium... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2013-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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LSU Libraries Granted Additional Funding for Digitizing Louisiana Newspapers

The LSU Libraries' Special Collections division was recently awarded $210,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, or NEH, to digitize an additional 100,000 pages of Louisiana newspapers published from 1836 through 1922. This marks ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wattpad tries crowd-funding

Online writing community Wattpad has launched a fan funding experiment to allow members to pledge... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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NASA's Massive Free E-Book Collection

Who could resist Exploring Space With a Camera? Or Rockets and People, the autobiography of rocket designer Boris Chertok?     Continue reading at The Atlantic

[ The Atlantic | 2013-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Foyles to open Waterloo station branch

Foyles is to open a seventh branch in London’s Waterloo Rail Station in the first week of... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Private “I”

Robert Galbraith, who is really J.K. Rowling, caps his debut mystery novel, which is really her ninth book, by channeling Alfred, Lord Tennyson. “I am become a name,” thinks the private eye Cormoran Strike to himself when the case is solved, quoting Tennyson’s “Ulysses.” Strike’s right—he is... Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2013-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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3 Wondertacular Rules for Going Viral From The Most Viral Site on the Web

This morning Upworthy.com, which crested at 30 million unique visitors in May thanks to a runaway viral hit, announced that they've started piloting sponsored posts to generate revenue, and shared with Fast Company a bit of their secret sauce. Founded 14 months ago by Moveon.org's Eli Pariser... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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