Half of on-line e-books in Spain are pirated
Publishing Perspectives reports that figures from a publishing industry lobby in Spain purport to show that the piracy rate for e-books has risen from 40% in 2010 to 49% in 2011—that...
Tech will take off, says Harry Dent
We don't know. But maybe e-books will benefit from a tech boom predicted by Harry Dent in an IT Conversations MP3. Also of interest: Cyblerlaw expert Ernie Miller and others discuss...
Better education and precedents are needed to promote fair use and free expression, says...
Remember my article from the other day about the White House intellectual property plan that includes provisions for copyright education? I’ve come across a great op ed by Julie Ahrens, director...
Mayor Rob Ford: Priorities, Priorities!
I wrote in May about the scandal surrounding our buffoon of a mayor and his alleged difficulties with some of his Somali druglord friends. Well, the story exploded again this week...
John Edwards’ podcast copyright notice draws curiosity of cyberlaw maven Ernie Miller
Ernie Miller, a fellow for the Information Policy Project at Yale Law School, has joined me in wondering why UNC Prof. John Edwards' Web site is prohibiting derivative works from...
Monday links: Cellphones as e-book readers, e-book prices, the audiobook scene and TelePosts from...
Cellphones are growing more powerful with computerlike features, and that can only be good news for e-books, which have suffered from the slowdown in PDA growth. See a New York Times...
Wikipedia vs. Microsoft’s volunteer approach
The altruists at Microsoft want you to volunteer your time for a Wiki-type editing of the Encarta encyclopedia (sarcasm alert).
(Via Many2Many: A group weblog on social software.)
The TeleRead take:...
Morning Roundup: HarperCollins Humble Bundle. Monkey selfie not copyrightable and more
HarperCollins Humble eBook Bundle with Gaiman, Bujold. Coelho, Williams and More (Boing Boing)
It's a really big deal that HarperCollins has teamed up with the Humble Bundle. When I was curating the...
A Guide to Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online
From an Open Knowledge Foundation Blog Post by Sam Leon:
At The Public Domain Review we’re always scouring the internet for public domain gems. It’s simply incredible how much of our shared cultural heritage...
IDPF – Content Protection Technology and Digital Publishing with Bill Rosenblatt
Bill McCoy: IDPF is a standards organization. There is no standard means to do content protection in EPUB and the IDPF is doing what is essentially a thought experiment on what...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
