Amazon scoops up Goodreads social network | Internet & Media - CNET News

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Amazon scoops up Goodreads social network | Internet & Media - CNET News: Amazon scoops up Goodreads social network

The giant Web retailer pays an undisclosed amount to acquire the book-reading social network.

by Jay Greene
March 28, 2013 1:41 PM PDT


Amazon agreed today to buy book-recommendation site Goodreads for an undisclosed amount.

The San Francisco-based company should provide Amazon with another way to get readers to buy books from it, both digitally and from its warehouses. Amazon said it also plans to use Goodreads to help authors find readers who might not otherwise know about them. Read more....

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Urban Librarian Brigade Bringing Books To The Sidewalks: Gothamist

Urban Librarian Brigade Bringing Books To The Sidewalks: Gothamist: Urban Librarian Brigade Bringing Books To The Sidewalks

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Two literary-minded Brooklynites have teamed up to bring the printed page to the street. Lauren Comito and Christian Zabriskie have started a movement called Urban Librarians Unite, a library advocacy
organization that will train and dispatch a Volunteer Library Brigade across the city. Before hitting their beats, each volunteer will receive training in reference services, public service, and storytime... but not dancing:

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Getting hired using social media from Steven Lastres

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Do you associate networking with shameless self-promotion and ‘more = more’? Does that make your stomach turn? Me too!

Networking has a bad reputation as a forum for superficial small talk. Yet real networking is about establishing mutually beneficial, lasting connections, one person at a time. And with my modern approach to networking, even you can shine and thrive at a board meeting, convention, or free-floating cocktail party.

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Iraqi librarian saved 30,000 books during 2003 invasion - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page

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Iraqi librarian saved 30,000 books during 2003 invasion

Sunday, 17 March 2013

A Basra librarian remembers how she moved 30,000 books out of the city’s central library to a neighboring restaurant and later to her home, before the looting and burning of the library in the first days of the U.S.-invasion of Iraq exactly a decade ago. (Reuters)

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Ten years ago this week, British forces entered Iraq’s second city, Basra, as part of the U.S.-led invasion of the country.

No one remembers that decisive event more so than librarian Alia Baqer. Read more...

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Why I Stopped Pirating and Started Paying for Media

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Let's be honest for second: most of us have illegally downloaded something in our lives. Maybe it was a song, some software, a game, or a movie. For a period I pirated everything I could. As technology pushed forward, it became less necessary, and now I don't even bother. Here's why. Read more...

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Speaker Char Booth

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We Want You to Quit Your Internship… Now!

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Join the Association of Jewish Libraries in Houston 2013! - YouTube

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