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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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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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
BoingBoing reports about a rotting Detroit book depository (I'd post a pic here, but they're listed as no unauthorized use). It is a poster child for urban decay. As a writer I look at the millions of words rotting away, all the work that went into those books, and how ...
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