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	<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Headline 2010: e-Reader device failure</title>
		<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/?p=468</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The market knows best, right? Markets are bloody paths to progress. At this writing there are approximately 52 e-reader devices coming to market in the next 12 months. Fifty-two different devices coming to market (Here&#8217;s what I wrote about Steve Jobs&#8217; approach to reader devices when there were just 45 e-readers on the horizon). Creative, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updating Kindles-sold estimates: 1.072 million</title>
		<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/?p=466</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[market stats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Based on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos&#8217; comments on the third quarter results for the company, Kindle sales are accelerating. Bezos is quoted: “Kindle has become the #1 bestselling item by both unit sales and dollars – not just in our electronics store but across all product categories on Amazon.com. It’s also the most wished for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kindle books come to the PC -- a Nook counterpunch</title>
		<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/?p=462</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Barnes &amp; Noble]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Platform expansion is the logical counter to new competition at the device level. Amazon, facing the introduction of BN.com&#8217;s Nook and other e-readers this week, has announced it will support reading of Kindle books on Windows 7, Vista and XP Service Pack 2 PCs in November.
The application offers a few enhancements compared to the Kindle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nook Clarified: Really solid progress for e-readers</title>
		<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/?p=446</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Barnes &amp; Noble]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[BN.com]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[e-books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[e-reader]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kindle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nook]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wi-Fi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I posted a long analysis of what I thought was right and strangely wrong about the Barnes &#038; Noble Nook. Matt Miller today got a clarification about my main concern, which was that Barnes &#038; Noble seemed to have said, according to several published reports, that Wi-Fi would work only in its stores at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>B&#038;N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary</title>
		<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/?p=434</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to this posting, please visit this clarifications posting to get the whole picture. 
It would be nice to say, as Matt Miller has, that the e-book and e-reader market was revolutionized today. It simply got more interesting. A careful reading of the $259 Nook&#8217;s features, and the comparison offered by B&#38;N to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AT&#038;T's "problem" customers get the blame</title>
		<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/?p=429</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Media Comment &#038; Crimes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[AT&amp;T]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bandwidth hogs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fortune Magazine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fortune Magazine swallows the AT&#038;T pitch hook, line and sinker in a story titled &#8220;Bandwidth hogs — iPhones and other smartphones.&#8221; Writer Jon Fortt dishes up a steaming dish of bull shoveled straight out of AT&#038;T PR: 
Now the wireless providers hawking those Internet-enabled mobile devices are experiencing the digital equivalent of being proprietors of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don't take my Moleskine notebook and Rotring pen</title>
		<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/?p=424</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the technology I&#8217;d least like to lose, the thing you&#8217;d have to pry from my cold dead fingers? Well, you will have to pry a Moleskine notebook and pen from my hands when I am dead. 
The Moleskine, a venerable notebook made by Moda &#038; Moda of Itally, and a Rotring fountain pen (either [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is Facebook whoring me out?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/?p=421</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[libel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[user data]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been pondering this note, sent to me by a friend on Facebook last week:
Facebook needs to recode their ads&#8230; It&#8217;s one thing when the ad for singles waiting for me is accompanied by a picture of my lovely wife&#8230; Its another when the pic is Mitch Ratcliffe!!!
I am married. Facebook knows I am married, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon on the record: Device limits set by publishers</title>
		<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/?p=419</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[download limits]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I queried Russ Grandinetti, vice president, Books, at Amazon about the lack of clarity about how many devices can access a Kindle book or how many times a buyer can expect to download a title from the Kindle Store. He referred me to Drew Herdener, director of communication at Amazon, who replied with the following:
 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The future of the book, expanding</title>
		<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/?p=416</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[e-books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ebooks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mitch's book]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted a couple excerpts from the book I am working on, about the future of books and reading. It&#8217;s a different topic than Rational Rants&#8217; mandate, and with so much news and opinion every day to comment on, deserving of its own place and community. So, without further adieu, I introduce you to BooksAhead.com, [...]]]></description>
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