Archive for the ‘Consume’ Category
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
The FSF Defective by Design folks posted a link to this on Identi.ca. The site is Closed Circle and features titles from C.J. Cherryh, Jane Fancher, and Lynn Abbey. The titles available from this site aren't from the full catalog of these authors which would be rather huge. I suspect ...
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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 ...
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
I saw this on Wired, a piece by Eliot van Buskirk. Sony is thankfully the lesser part of the story as it turns out. What Smashwords is doing is building a one stop site for self publishing ebooks through partnerships with not only Sony, but also Barnes & Noble and ...
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Wired has a short editorial from Clive Thompson. It is another thoughtful consideration on the future of the printed book. What I like most about this is how he points out several existing examples that he believes point the way.
But only if publishers adopt Wark's perspective and provide ...
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Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
There is not much detail about this story beyond what reads like press releases. According to the NYT article, Amazon has no intention of changing anything about Stanza. That includes its ability to download free books and purchase books from participating services. One of those services, Fictionwise, was recently purchased ...
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
I just watched the video of Cory Doctorow's talk on eBooks and DRM from the O'Reilly Tools of Change conference. In it, he expressed the desire to have Doctorow's Law, if ever a thing is coined, to be that if anyone puts DRM, locks, on your works, as a creative, ...
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Thursday, January 1st, 2009
Mike at the Creative Commons offers a bevy of links celebrating a day dedicated to the most open of open media, works in the public domain. He points out a couple of blog posts considering the importance of the public domain, many projects contributing to or building on it, ...
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Saturday, November 29th, 2008
I've heard or seen my own role models point to James Boyle and his research and writing. Professor Lawrence Lessig posted about Boyles's new book this morning, mentioning that Boyle's first book served as a strong initial inspiration for Lessig's own copyright work.
"The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of ...
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
The Creative Commons just recently launched their annual fund raising campaign. The organization is not for profit and relies on these donations to help share information and build tools to foster a thriving and vibrant commons online.
They just successfully met a matching grant but still have a ways to ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Remix is Professor Lawrence Lessig's self described last book on the subject of copyright. The announcement of its release is up on his blog. There is also a dedicated site with links to all the various and sundry resources that you would expect to attend a book from ...
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