Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard Librarian,

and key visionary for Digital Public Library of America

Interview Starts at 16:16

Now the strategy is not to have a five-year plan with an enormous budget of that sort but rather one that would involve beginning from a core of already digitized collections that we will make available on Thursday [April 18, 2013], and then growing and growing incrementally and then looking for funding as we need it.

News

“Amazon Wants You to Talk to Your Next Kindle Fire” by Evan Niu at Motley Fool – April 18, 2013

The Motley Fool Money podcast at iTunes

Engadget review of the new Kobo Aura HD dedicated eReader

“Penguin to Drop Apple E-Book Deal to Settle EU Antitrust Probe” by John Paczkowski at All Things D – April 19, 2013

Tech Tips

ReaderRocket site for comparing eReaders

Targus stylus for $9.89

Luzme tracker of eBook price drops

Atavist launches its content creator tool, Creativist, in beta

Interview with Robert Darnton

“Now, With No Further Ado, We Present…the Digital Public Library of America!” by Rebecca J. Rosen at TheAtlantic.com – April 16, 2013

“The National Digital Public Library Is Launched!” by Robert Darnton at The New York Review of Books

Digital Public Library of America

Content

Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day by Brother David Steindl-Rast and Sharon Lebell; Introduction by Kathleen Norris – $8.69 on Kindle

“Evan Williams’ Medium acquires long-form journalism site Matter” by Laura Hazard Owen at paidContent – April 17, 2013

Digital Public Library of America

Brian Mockenhaupt wins The Atlantic’s $25,000 Michael Kelly award for his Byliner Original, The Living and the Dead, which he talked about on TKC 224 in November, 2012

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Not mentioned on podcast but still of note: “Ray Bradbury, Finally Coming to an E-Reader Near You” by Lauren Indvik at Mashable – April 12, 2013; Ray Bradbury’s books available on Kindle

Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named “Well, You Needn’t.” This version is “Ra-Monk” by Eval Manigat on the “Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive” CD by Public Transit Recording” CD.

Upcoming Guests

Jason Merkoski, author of Burning the Page

 Sam Tanenhaus, writer-at-large and former Book Review editor at The New York Times

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