Margaret Atwood to re-introduce the telautograph
Next week Margaret Atwood will be signing books at the London Book Fair ... from the comfort of her Canadian home. That's London, United Kingdom; not London, Ontario. So says Mobuzz...
Kentucky Fried Gutenberg: The renting of the not-so-secret ingredient–The Name
Sometimes even heroes sell out accidentally, and hopefully that's what happened with Project Gutenberg--if not in deed, then in appearance. Far better than a Valenti-level sellout to the dark side....
Palm Digital Media’s e-book giveaway
Palm Digital Media is giving away a different e-book a day until Christmas. The first title, available only Saturday, is The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett. This is a...
More rumors about ultra-portable from Apple. Or a tablet? Take your pick
More details via Techmeme linkfest and Apple Insider and Gadgetell.
Notice the possible use of solid-state mass storage, rather than a hard drive? The rumored new gizmo would appear in January.
Oh, yes,...
Amazon drops Lightning Source: Mobipocket to thrive at rivals’ expense? Anti-trust risks in future?
Amazon will no longer accept e-books from Lightning Source's distribution operation. Very possibly, Jeff Bezos and friends want publishers to deal with them directly and use the Amazon-owned Mobipocket reader and...
Harvard law prof ventures into TeleRead territory
From the start--back in the early '90s--TeleRead has suggested that taxes in one form or another be used to help fund a well-stocked national digital library system. Were we the...
Iliad feeding frenzy at Mobileread
If (like me) you cannot resist looking at, say, a roadside accident, or a streaker, you may wish to spend a couple of days at the Mobileread forums. Fans of the...
Software updates: Free Mobipocket Reader Pro 5.1–and a Word-to-Microsoft Reader tweak
Here and here from Alexander at MobileRead.
In the world of open software, might a OpenOffice-to-OpenReader plug-in happen? You can bet we'd love it, and if any developers want to plunge...
The expanding world of copyright thuggery
So how far can the RIAA go in is war against users--and their computers--without violating anti-hacking laws? Check out the links in the Berkeley Intellectual Property Weblog. Meanwhile the Register...
Manes-Lessig fight: The latest round and the Authors Guild angle
Authors Guild Board member Steve Manes ("Let's have less of Lessig") and Stanford law professor Larry Lessig ("Sensitive" Manes "feels no hesitation in calling someone a 'moron,' 'idiot,' and 'buffoon'")...
AMAZON
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...
