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	<title>What's New at Open Book Systems</title>
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		<title>Apple Announces New Education and Publishing Apps for iPad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan O'Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple held an educational publishing event at the Guggenheim in New York City yesterday, outlining three new apps for students, teachers, and publishers. The first announcement was for iBooks 2, Apple’s reinvention of textbooks. The free app is available today &#8230; <a href="http://pubnews.obs.com/2012/01/20/apple-announces-new-education-and-publishing-apps-for-ipad/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate 1st National Download Day With Your E-Reader or Tablet</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2011/12/23/celebrate-1st-national-download-day-with-your-e-reader-or-tablet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan O'Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lulu.com has announced that the first annual National Download Day will be December 26, 2011—a day that Lulu predicts will be the highest traffic shopping day for e-reader and tablet content. With Amazon selling over a million Kindles a week &#8230; <a href="http://pubnews.obs.com/2011/12/23/celebrate-1st-national-download-day-with-your-e-reader-or-tablet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nazi-Occupied Childhood Inspires Tales of Humor and Mysticism—Now Available as E-Books!</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2011/12/01/nazi-occupied-childhood-inspires-tales-of-humor-and-mysticism%e2%80%94now-available-as-e-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan O'Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ingeborg Lauterstein survived a tumultuous childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna, Austria during World War II. She watched the world around her crumble, and lived to tell the tale: some 40 years later, her life and her volatile homeland formed the basis &#8230; <a href="http://pubnews.obs.com/2011/12/01/nazi-occupied-childhood-inspires-tales-of-humor-and-mysticism%e2%80%94now-available-as-e-books/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lending Library or Intellectual Property Heist?</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2011/11/18/amazon-and-publishers-spark-kindle-fires-lending-library-controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan O'Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the first shipments of its e-reader tablet, the Kindle Fire, Amazon announced its new &#8220;Lending Library&#8221;—a free service available to “Prime” subscribers that allows them free access to more the 5,000 e-books. This $79.99/year membership also offers free 2-day &#8230; <a href="http://pubnews.obs.com/2011/11/18/amazon-and-publishers-spark-kindle-fires-lending-library-controversy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Your book is printed and bound, while you wait—Worldwide</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2011/10/28/your-book-is-printed-and-bound-while-you-wait%e2%80%94worldwide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan O'Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Espresso (or Electronic) Book Machine (EBM), a creation of On Demand Books, is designed for the efficient and worldwide distribution of Print-On-Demand (POD) books. The first EBM was installed and demonstrated in June 2007 at the New York Public &#8230; <a href="http://pubnews.obs.com/2011/10/28/your-book-is-printed-and-bound-while-you-wait%e2%80%94worldwide/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>World’s 1st Online Book Store Announces Comeback at Frankfurt</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2011/10/21/world%e2%80%99s-1st-online-book-store-announces-comeback-at-frankfurt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan O'Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Open Book Systems has been innovating from within the publishing industry since 1982. “OBS” originally stood for “Online BookStore,” the first online book store on the internet in 1992, and now, we are revisiting what it means to publish online. &#8230; <a href="http://pubnews.obs.com/2011/10/21/world%e2%80%99s-1st-online-book-store-announces-comeback-at-frankfurt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon’s New Kindle Fire tablet Ships November 15!</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2011/10/03/amazon%e2%80%99s-new-kindle-fire-tablet-ships-november-15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan O'Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled three new Kindle models last week, including the much-anticipated Kindle Fire tablet. Amazon’s new 7” vibrant color multi-touch tablet sold an estimated 95,000 units in the first day of pre-orders for just $199 each. The &#8230; <a href="http://pubnews.obs.com/2011/10/03/amazon%e2%80%99s-new-kindle-fire-tablet-ships-november-15/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Self-published authors get direct access to Nook market</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2011/09/30/self-published-authors-get-direct-access-to-nook-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan O'Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lulu, the premier self-publishing service on the internet, announced this week that they have formed a partnership with Barnes &#038; Noble, the world’s largest bookseller. The new collaboration will allow Lulu’s members (called creators) to distribute their books through the &#8230; <a href="http://pubnews.obs.com/2011/09/30/self-published-authors-get-direct-access-to-nook-market/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Find us in Frankfurt!</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2011/09/26/find-us-in-frankfurt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan O'Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OBS will be exhibiting at the Frankfurt Book Fair from October 12-16—come and visit us at the Independent Publishers Guild stand A934-937 in Hall 8A! We started coming to Frankfurt in 1985 and look forward to this year’s event! The &#8230; <a href="http://pubnews.obs.com/2011/09/26/find-us-in-frankfurt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Search Engine Becomes Publisher: Google Acquires Zagat</title>
		<link>http://pubnews.obs.com/2011/09/23/search-engine-becomes-publisher-google-acquires-zagat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan O'Connor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, internet titan Google acquired guidebook publisher Zagat for a reported $125 million. Zagat has been publishing restaurant guidebooks for over 30 years, and has had problems breaking into the online reviewing world, with Yelp being their biggest &#8230; <a href="http://pubnews.obs.com/2011/09/23/search-engine-becomes-publisher-google-acquires-zagat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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