Speaking of wireless as a knowledge-spreader…
With the Wi-Fi post in mind, I can't resist mentioning the great experiment about to unfold at American University. Yes, the item is about higher ed. But as costs decline,...
The Great Gatsby, 1984 and copyright law on the Net
Yes, they're all discussed here. Just scroll down if the link does not work. And meanwhile enjoy the other items.
Wi-Fi, K-12 and libraries: Still another way to spread the books around
TeleRead would make library books easy to spread around--while tracking accesses to pay writers and publishers fairly, via a National Digital Library Fund financed through public and private means.Look beyond...
Computer-challenged public libraries
My friend Andy Oram, an editor at O'Reilly and Associates, visited his local library the other day and found just two working terminals. "That means that when two people are...
Upbeat e-book article in New York Times
Now here's a change--an upbeat article in the mainstream press on e-books. "Electronic books, which so far have been a boon mostly to ophthalmologists and other ministers to the weary...
Gatsby, 1984, Animal Farm, others go cyber–but not for us Yanks
At least some surfers outside the United States can legally download The Great Gatsby, 1984, Animal Farm, To the Lighthouse and even Gone with the Wind for free--because copyright laws...
Deep linking — why must we STILL fight this battle?
Every now and then someone asks for permission to link to an article on the TeleRead site. The word is, Don't worry. Feel free to link either to the home...
Paperlike displays
Doubt that e-book machines will eventually be as readable as paper books? As a matter of fact, display problems are one reason why just 100,000 or so e-book machines are...
TeleRead and Blogs
Odd, isn't it? TeleRead is a plan for well-stocked national digital libraries, which, among other things, would offer fixed links and reliable archiving so that e-books and other digital items would...