Do people really want e-books?
I was in New York City today and took a shot of this iPhone sign with my iPhone. Stores like this are cropping up all over the city. It just testifies...
New York Times columnist: Bloggers stealing ‘Blargon’ from news biz
William Safire is out today with a New York Times Magazine column on the way bloggers are picking up newspaper jargon. Yep, you've just read a "lede."
This "blargon" in the...
Why the $149 Palm is a yawner for e-book readers
Yawn. Z-z-z-z. With 160x160 res, the $149 Palm Zire 31 from PalmOne is most likely a boring loser for the e-book minded. Far better to shop a little more carefully...
Newest ABBYY FineReader OCR software includes LIT output–Microsoft Reader format
Press release. Besides LIT for Microsoft Reader, other supported formats include HTML, XML, DOC, and PDF. The latter can be in "tagged" format, which will make it easier to produce...
DMCA vs. classical music Webcaster
Here, from PostClassic.
And speaking of a different kind of classic: Don Quixote as open source, from Open Source Radio.
Sony to halt U.S. Clie sales for the rest of ’04: DRM and eBabel...
The Clie series of PDAs will no longer be sold by Sony in the U.S. market, at least for the rest of 2004. Not the best of news for e-books....
‘3 Myths About the Recording Industry Debunked’
From an 3 Myths About the Recording Industry Debunked by Alec Hanley Bemis in the LA Weekly: MYTH NO. 1: The prevalence of file-trading services and free music on the...
They never learn: More on Random House
"For Godoff's allies, the question of 'What Now' comes closely followed by 'Why'. Olson was remarkably up front about his reasons--finances, which many read as pressure from the Bertelsmann highers,...
Chinese blogging network
Details via Wired News. An example. Other side of the coin: Blogs May be a Wealth Hazard.
What e-books are good for: Keeping libraries alive for the long term
Jessamyn West at librarian.net has a neat little post about unofficial campaign ads in the middle of subject lines ballyhooing pirated books on Usenet. "Maybe," she jokes, "ebooks are good...