Showing posts with label Google Play. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google Play. Show all posts

Thursday, January 3, 2013

What Can I Say? A Bunch Happened. LIKE NEWS!

The Upper St. Clair Library is offering classes on healthier eating.  The Lower St. Clair Library is offering classes on stealing candy from blind old people.

Puffin unveils a Doctor Who themed book series.  When asked, the Doctor replied, "I'm a fictional character, I don't give a shit."

A winter pruning class is being offered by the Woodland Library Rose Club.  Who knew you needed a class to get dried out and wrinkly?

Greenville librarian said in an announcement the decision to ban Alan Moore's graphic novel Neonomicon was not made lightly but instead while standing on their heads and then getting up until they felt that "whoa" feeling.

The Hillsborough Library will host a program about the Titanic with actual artifacts and involving guest speaker Ishmael "The Iceman" Iceberg.

Books donated by St. Paul's Episcopal Church to School 6 in Buffalo, NY will be blessed before the donation happens.  Students commented this is not the first time they have received books with shit on them.

Redding, CA must allow leafleting in "free speech" areas, including public libraries, a judge decides.  Steve "The Hobo" no last name given has already started turning out his leaflet, "Why I'm Standing Outside the Library Instead of Showing You My Junk Inside the Library: A Hobo Story. By the Way, Look Down, That's My Junk."

Read this article to make your Google Play ebooks not sound like shit.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Ebook News: Apple May Get Sued and Price Wars: The New Hope

A Random Newspaper (link below) reports that the Wall Street Journal reports that the US Justice Department may sue Apple and five major book publishers for conspiring to raise the prices of ebooks.

Google Play (Google's new media outlet) and Amazon are involved in a price war on ebooks that are creating great deals on titles.  

In an effort to stay balanced and fair, this librarian has decided to present the following argument:
These two stories have been included to show that commerce is good and Apple is an evil, Borg-like organization that feeds on making you not think like a fat man feeds on super duper triple chunk mocha fudge brownie Rockie Road Ice Cream.  

My iPhone's battery went to crap so I got an Android.  Who loses? Me, I'm still on AT&T.

Google Play And Amazon Involved In Price War Leading To Amazing Deals On EBooks

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Google Combines Digital Libraries into Google Play

Google yesterday combined their Books, Music and Movie stores into one big market for Android called "Google Play."  This consolidation of services hopes to rival such entities as Amazon and iTunes.

Well, poopie, there goes my productivity.  I felt so productive every day, checking for deals at each section but now all that is lost.  Just one website?  Man, I won't know what to do with myself.  It's like they moved a Wal-mart right in the middle of my library.  This just breaks my soul at how unbusy I feel right now.

Okay, this article sucks, but they all can't be winners.  I'm watching a spider crawl on my coworker right now.  She is oblivious.

Where Google Is Going With 'Google Play,' New Online Store And Library - TPM