Debate on Hollywood-bought broadcast treaty proposal
"An international treaty to give broadcasters the right to control who may record, transmit, or distribute their signals is reaching a crucial stage of negotiation by the World Intellectual Property...
New e-book rivals: Google and Amazon?
Now that Google may go public, will it rev up a book search engine, archives and e-book store to compete in certain ways with Amazon? In a related vein, check...
Sexy 'crone lit': 'Age is no barrier for books'—E included?
You know about chick lit. Could "crone lit" be the rage someday? It actually makes sense. Other than the movie and music businesses, New York-style publishing just might be the...
Two e-book readers to check out–including a free one
yBook and CEBook 3.5 are on the review schedule here. Thanks to Susan Glinert for the pointers.About the free yBook (Windows and--under Wine--Linux) she says: "Very, very smart."And CEBook (CE...
Boss Bill vs. e-book standards
Adobe e-book boss Bill McCoy just can't stop. This is a hoot--a giant Proprietary Formatter like Adobe going on a jihad against the OpenReader Consortium for supposedly not being open enough....
Content and wireless access
Two other finds via Jonathan Schull's blog:--Making The Web Relevant for Underserved Americans: What They Look For, a .pdf file from the Children's Partnership. Needed, among other things? More local...
Reed Elsevier’s biz model in trouble in UK
Reed Elsevier, the huge publishing conglomerate whose scientific journals have been attacked as overpriced, is in trouble in the UK. From the Dec. 12 Guardian:Increasingly, universities are reluctant to pay...
Reaction to OQO mixed so far
"A full-fledged Windows XP computer that's a fraction of the size of a laptop seems like the answer to the digerati's prayers, but the praise greeting the OQO Model 01...
Software giants vs. online privacy
If you value online privacy, check out Software firms want copyright law rewrite, on CNET News.
Falling down: School library hours cut, poverty grows–and this mom’s POed
From Web writer to popcorn-sweeper-upper--that's how Barbara Card Atkinson, an underemployed California mother, tells of her fall in the modern American economy. And, oh, yes, there's a school library angle,...
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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...
