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19 Cards in this Set
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Jimmy Wales
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creator of Wikipedia the software enabled several people to collaborate on writing and editing
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Wikipedia
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a massive online encyclopedia written and edited by users
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gravitas
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seriousness or sobriety
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university presses
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university-sponsored book publishing operations, traditional focus on scholarly work
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Jeff Bezos
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founder of online book retailer Amazon.com
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e-books
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portable electronic devices for on-screen reading of books downloaded from the Web
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Jane Friedman
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chief executive at Harper Collins, is unlearning fundamental lessons from her career climb over 30 yrs and believes publishers have never looked at who the consumer is
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trade books
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General-interest titles, including fiction and non-fiction
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textbooks
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educational, professional, reference titles
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el-hi
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the elementary and high school book market
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mid-list
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books for which publishing houses expect modest sales and promote modestly
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out of print
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a book unavailable because slow sales don't warrant the cost of printing and warehousing a new batch
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print-on-demand
POD |
equipment that prints and binds books in low volumes, even a single copy
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google print library
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project to digitize all books in English language
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aliterate
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choosing not to read although able to do so
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Johannes Gutenberg
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created the printing press in the 1440's which jump-started mass production of the written word
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James Fenimore Cooper
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created stories that flowed from the American experience and gave Americans a perception of themselves as a people with their own traditions--wrote last of the Mohicans
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Charles Darwin
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wrote Origin of Species in 1859 and argued that all species evolved over time from common ancestors through the process called natural selection
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Jeff Bezos
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entrepreneur who came up with Amazon.com
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