This week in the press (2010-02-09)

Apparently, it was a rather slow week for the news—or I was too busy to really notice. Anyway, the coming weeks will belong to sports, starting this week with the Super Bowl and going on with the Vancouver Olympics. Therefore, most news outlet will probably stop talking about Haiti…

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• Borders Bankruptcy ‘Very Low Probability’; Merger with B&N Possible
• E-book Smackdown
• Writers Join in E-Book Smackdown
• Books, Readers and Teachers: A Wrap-Up
• Publishers smile again as Kindle rivals emerge

Health & Influenza A(H1N1)

• More Quebec teens are taking up smoking
• Global swine flu death toll falls in past week- WHO

Humour

• Unshelved: 2010-2-4
• FoxTrot by Bill Amend (2010/02/07): Nerdy Chess!

Japan

• Des bains thermaux japonais en pleine ville

Media, Culture & Society

• Some News Outlets Ready to Try Charging Online Readers
• Who will publish the new news?
• The 10 best Super Bowl commercials Canada missed
• YouTube - Super Bowl XLIV ads

Montreal & local politics

• City, blue collars to meet with mediator
• Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive secures land to build métro cars if it wins contract

Science & Technology

• Asian man's bones found in Italy requires scholars to rethink history
• Archéologie : à l'aube de la chirurgie
• Le Macworld s'ouvre...sans Apple
• Gmail deviendra social
• Le Nook arrive en magasins
• HTML/Flash: une guerre évitable?

More on the iPad

• To Deliver, iPad Needs Media Deals
• It’s Here! Comics Publishers Respond to Apple’s iPad

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