Archive for the ‘Open News’ Category
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, 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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
In my past interviews with Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan, they mentioned a rework of their fantastic book, "The Indie Band Survival Guide". The new edition would allow them to expand on their research and would be targeted primarily at musicians in Europe. That book, "The DIY Music ...
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
As a techie I have used O'Reilly's non-free bookshelf for technical titles, Safari, on and off over the years. The appeal is understandable, being able to access a virtual book shelf of technical references from anywhere there is internet access. The only reason I do not use it ...
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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, December 6th, 2008
Wikipedia just announced a massive contribution to their Commons.
Starting on Thursday Dec 4, 2008, Wikimedia Commons will witness a massive upload of new images. We are anticipating about 100,000 files from a donation from the German Federal Archive. These images are mostly related to the history of Germany (including the ...
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