Other uses for books -- how creative!

I wish I was artistic -- look at these great book art creations.

The 100 Greatest Non-fiction Books

The 100 greatest non-fiction books as reported in The Guardian.

Barnes & Noble sales

A recent press release from Barnes & Noble announced an overall loss of dollars, but soaring  ebook sales:



"The rapidly growing digital business propelled the top-line at BN.com driven by the company’s NOOK™ eReader product line and digital content from the NOOK Bookstore™.  BN.com comparable sales growth accelerated throughout the year, increasing 78% for the fourth quarter and 65% for the full year as compared to the same periods in fiscal 2010.  BN.com sales were $217 million for the quarter and $858 million for the full year."

Another way to get free Kindle books

Came across this site by accident -- eReaderIQ.com:

"eReaderIQ provides Amazon Kindle price drop alerts, watches your favorite titles to let you know when they are available for Kindle, and gives you a regularly updated list of all non-public domain freebies on Amazon.com. We also offer a superior search engine which not only lets you search the Kindle store by genre and keyword, but also lets you define the price range, reader age, language and more!"

The service is free and easy to use.

British Library 19th Century Collection

I don't have an ipad, but this sounds really great, especially if you are interested in the 19th century.  The British Library has released 1000 items from its collection into an ipad app.  

"This application provides access to titles from the British Library’s 19th century book collection. It includes classic novels, works of philosophy, history and science. Browse, search and read these historic books on a platform that enhances the reading experience. These digital book images have been captured in color to preserve the look of the original book.  Marbled papers, embossed covers, engraved illustrations maps, and beautifully colored plates are intact and help create a unique reading environment.

Features:

• Search the collection
• Browse titles by subject
• Read commentary on selected titles
• View images of original maps
• See author inscriptions and margin notes
• Create favorite title lists
• Download books for offline reading

Visit: http://britishlibrary19c.tumblr.com to see sample curated content."

Apple and Amazon ebook sales

paidContent.org  has a short article on the number of sales of Apple ebooks that Steve Jobs announced the other day -- an increase of 30 million since March.   The site also has some statistics on Amazon's sales to as they say "help put Apple's 130 million figure in perspective."






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Dewey Digger

Really interesting attempt to catalog the web  --   Dewey Digger .  
           "Welcome, wonderful web wanderer. Explore knowledge via the 
            Dewey Decimal  Classification; just clickety-click."
I clicked on the 900 History & Geography tab in the top menu and a listing of all Dewey numbers appeared.  After clicking on 929, a page of topics appeared (looks like a word cloud), and I chose 'ancestors.'  Twenty-seven (27) sources appeared (Amazon, Bing, Google, JSTOR, Internet Archive, Project Muse to name a few).