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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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, 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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