Archive for October, 2009

Barnes and Noble e-Book Reader Launches Today

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

RWW has the pertinent details, as do many other sites. It seems to be an improvement over the Kindle, in terms of consumer freedoms, but still largely hobbled. Personally, I won't touch it as long as AT&T is the carrier but also a worry is that B&N still uses cumbersome ...

Cory’s DIY Experiment

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

He finally shares details on his print-on-demand, short fiction anthology. I will admit to some insider knowledge of Cory's plans and relief that he is finally publicizing parts of what is a very ambition business plan. There is much here that should be familiar by now due to similar experiments by ...

Author’s Thoughts on His Free Content Work Being Re-published

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Via Gnat's four short links post for today at O'Reilly. Mark Pilgrim explains very clearly that re-publishing without his explicit permission is a large part of the point in him choosing not only an open but a free as in free software license for his book. Important to note that ...