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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...

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...

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...

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...

Here, from PostClassic. And speaking of a different kind of classic: Don Quixote as open source, from Open Source Radio.

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....

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...

"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,...

Details via Wired News. An example. Other side of the coin: Blogs May be a Wealth Hazard.

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...

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Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...

TeleRead.com is now a static archival site, but we're very much alive at TeleRead.org. Big thanks to Nate Hoffelder of The-Digital-Reader.com, who teamed up on the preservation project with ReclaimHosting.com.