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Author: David Rothman

David Rothman is the founder and publisher of the TeleRead e-book site and cofounder of LibraryEndowment.org. He is also author of Drone Child: A Novel of War, Family, and Survival. Other books are The Solomon Scandals novel and six tech-related books on topics ranging from the Internet to laptops. Passionate on digital divide issues, he is now pushing for the creation of a national digital library endowment.
April 21, 2011 BRAC-133: The Quarter Pentagon / Politicians / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Quarter Pentagon’s bomb vulnerabilities accidentally revealed: Idiots! Almost as bad as bungles in ‘The Solomon Scandals.’ Any ideas for BRAC-133, Mr. Trump?

Update: Jim Moran has since told me there was no quid pro quo, that the real estate developer's contributions were

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April 17, 2011 BRAC-133: The Quarter Pentagon / Politicians / Washington area life

If Quarter Pentagon is attacked with missiles? Beware, minions. You’ll be working closer to the outside—while the biggies get the safer center offices

Everything inside me is hoping that no one attacks the towers of BRAC-133, aka the Quarter Pentagon (which unfortunately will

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April 15, 2011 BRAC-133: The Quarter Pentagon / The Solomon Scandals

High-profile $1B Quarter Pentagon is potential terrorist-bait and one of many reasons why Washington might screw over the young, the old, and the sick

Update: Jim Moran has since told me there was no quid pro quo, that the Indiana real estate developer's contributions

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April 10, 2011 Media / The Solomon Scandals

Torn between two e-books? Go for the one without Digital Rights Management, if forced to choose. DRM is the ‘Scandal’ of e-publishing.

In character, one of Rob Pegoraro’s last “Faster Forward” columns for the Washington Post is on Digital Rights Management, aka

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April 8, 2011 Media

Rob Pegoraro, gutsy consumer tech reporter, to leave Washington Post: Why not instead assign him to chronicle America’s declining tech prowess?

Imagine working for a newspaper and vigorously knocking its iPhone app as a waste of money, even at $2 a

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March 29, 2011 Media / The Solomon Scandals

Aided by Kindle Review rec and 99-cent sale, ‘Solomon Scandals’ zoomed to 1K rank at Amazon out of 850K

For years, as founder and editor of TeleRead, I complained of e-book gouges by big publishers eager to protect their

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March 24, 2011 The Solomon Scandals

99-cent ‘Solomon Scandals’ Kindle sale: Just through March 28

Update: The sale is still on through early April—Scandals’s rank went from the hundreds of thousands to 1K. I paid

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March 8, 2011 The Solomon Scandals

My Chronicle of Higher Education essay on the need for a well-stocked national digital library system

I’ll be back to the Scandals blog in time, but for now, more of my blogging is happening on the

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February 10, 2011 The Solomon Scandals

Kafka, Proust, Roth classics lead Jewcy.com list: ‘The 50 Most Essential Works of Jewish Fiction of the Last 100 Years’

For every two Jews, said David Ben Gurion, the first prime minister of Israel,  three opinions exist, and maybe when

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