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  1. The Future of Big Data | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project July 20, 2012

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  2. A poet by any other name. Who is “the speaker” and does it matter? July 19, 2012

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  3. Prescriptivists vs. Descriptivists: The Fifth Edition of The American Heritage Dictionary July 19, 2012

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  4. Be aware: Internet content blocking travels downstream, affects unwary users July 13, 2012

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  5. Happy birthday, Proust. July 10, 2012

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  6. Gold-hatted Gatsby July 10, 2012

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  7. How Much Does a Review in the NY Times Book Review Matter? July 10, 2012

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  8. The Great American Novel: We’ve been looking for one since the 1860s. Why? July 2, 2012

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  9. What does it cost to deliver an ebook? June 15, 2012

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  10. Philanthrocapitalism Explained (Maria Bustillos, The Awl) June 14, 2012

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  11. The Sound of a Sentence June 14, 2012

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  12. Where Things Stand (NY Times Book Review, Race, Gender) June 13, 2012

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  13. What Facebook Knows June 13, 2012

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  14. RIP Ray Bradbury, 1920–2012 June 6, 2012

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  15. “[W]hat a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere…” (aka The North West London Blues by Zadie Smith) June 4, 2012

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  16. The mighty pen: Fiction as a form of protest June 4, 2012

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  17. Search Gets Lost June 4, 2012

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  18. How Germany Keeps Amazon at Bay and Literary Culture Alive June 4, 2012

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  19. The Amazon Effect June 4, 2012

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  20. Wow, just wow: The Nook version of War and Peace had changed every instance of “kindle” or “kindled” into “Nook” and “Nookd,” June 4, 2012

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  21. Why I Still Write Poetry (by Charles Simic) May 16, 2012

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  22. The stubborn persistence of textbooks May 14, 2012

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  23. Agree or disagree: Absurd “academic publishing racket” is past its sell-by date? April 23, 2012

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  24. How sad. No Fiction Pulitzer Awarded for 2012. April 16, 2012

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  25. Amazon’s $1 million secret… April 11, 2012

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