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The Digital Reading Revolution - by Guardian UK

Books have come late to the digital party, but change is now happening at such a furious pace that even conservative members of the trade are starting to realise that their industry is being snatched away from them before their eyes. The undisputed leader in the race to sell digital books is Amazon. Its Kindle e-reader was a late entry into the race but it used its redoubtable marketing muscle to gain a 76% share of all digital books sold. It could have been much more but for the arrival of the iPad, which now has a 5% market share, though rising fast.

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Last Updated ( Thursday, 28 October 2010 20:33 )  

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We are working in collaboration to develop new concepts of governance, economic development, leadership, and education/learning as a response to a fast-paced, interconnected, and increasingly complex world.

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Workbook for Community Transformation - original essays and writings by Rick Smyre

If anyone would like to have a digital copy of the community transformation workbook that Rick uses to develop "master capacity builders" in local communities, please contact him at rlsmyre@aol.com and he will send all twelve tabs to you directly free of charge.

The essays come under different headings as follows;

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  2. Transformation
  3. System of Community Transformation
  4. Transformational Leadership
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  6. Emergence of a Molecular Economy
  7. Weak Signals
  8. Rethinking the Role of the Chamber of Commerce
  9. Return of the Rural Area
  10. Why Old Solutions No Longer Work
  11. 21st Century Bibliography
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