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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 15, 2010 The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Adrian Fenty: D.C. ‘reform’ mayor as crooked as President Eddy Bullard in ‘The Solomon Scandals’?

President Eddy Bullard in The Solomon Scandals is a man of discretion and moderation. He isn’t flamboyantly corrupt like the

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April 13, 2010 Media

The original ‘Front Page’ newspaper movie: Free from the Internet Archive

Why wait for the original version of The Front Page to show up on The Tube? You can legally enjoy

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April 7, 2010 The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Confederate History Month returns to Virginia: Should Northern VA secede?

Update, 8:01 p.m., April 7: Gov. McDonnell has apologized for not mentioning slavery when he proclaimed CHM. – D.R. The

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April 3, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals

Apple iPad: Another way to read ‘The Solomon Scandals’ and other books

The Solomon Scandals is mostly about yesterday, but e-books do show up briefly in the afterword. We learn about the

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March 30, 2010 Media

‘Romenesko’d’: Dan Bloom’s musical obit for ‘snail’ newspapers—or at least his op-ed about it

For the op-ed page and Web site of the Providence Journal, my friend Dan Bloom wrote partly about his song

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March 26, 2010 Media

Robot reporters crossed with mannequins?

Face it. Human journalists have flaws, and I don’t simply mean typos and other atrocities in print and online. Pity

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March 23, 2010 Buying info / The Solomon Scandals

‘Red Hot’ Engel sisters, possible iPad edition, Henry Adams and ‘Scandalize your classroom’

Remember my optimism about Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, the play by the Engel twins, based

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March 14, 2010 Skyline Plaza / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Beyond Landra Reid’s broken neck: A psycho trucker almost killed Carly and me. Tougher regs, anyone?

In Australia… an unhappy meeting of truck and car Landra Reid, wife of of Harry Reid, U.S. Senate majority leader,

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March 10, 2010 Lorain, Ohio / Media

Google IS killing newspapers—but not in the way you might think

I mourn the decline of traditional newspapers, like The Telegram in The Solomon Scandals, despite their many flaws. How many

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