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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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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