Below are the TeleBlog’s highlights from the past week. Graphic is from My Publishers Weekly essay on the Tower of eBabel
Schools and libraries
Kids and e-books: Good news from Ball State’s e-dictionary studies
Prof. Ivancevich to Prof. Stross: F grade for New York Times column on ad-supported textbooks
‘Saying no to School Laptops’: Lessons for OLPC?
Wikipedia-bashing New York Times columnist draws major accuracy complaint
Writing and publishing
Google Book Search boosting sales of books
Didn’t you get into e-books to become Jeff B’s banker?
Mobile phones: A way to spread e-books around in Africa
‘The imperiled writer: Robotic scribes and outsourcing on the way?
Tools for creating e-books
Best design/layout/content for e-books?
P-mags for teens losing out: E-book angle
Reading and listening
‘Free e-book on security engineering technology’
Episode 3 of Silent Universe sci-fi drama posted
eReader for Symbian: Review link
Web Search Pro: Firefox add-on—great for search fiends, book-shoppers and word buffs
So what do you think of the Firefox 2.0 beta 2?
In search of a more useful Goobrary
How do Google e-book files display on your PDA—and why can’t I find a free download of Around the World in Eighty Days?
Hooray! Blackmask may return with 20,000 titles: Several hundred classics already back online
‘Digitized by Google’: Corporate graffiti on public-domain classics—every page
‘What Does Google Want Us to Do With All These Free PDF eBooks?’: Problematic downloads
Online preview of last Robert Heinlein novel
Foxit Reader and creation tools for PDF: A way to mitigate the pain?
jkOnTheRun excited about dotReader
Manybooks.net is back up
Hardware
Pepper 3 Linux tablet about to ship (and a useful comparison of Net tabs)
The 2B1: Yet another name change for the $100 laptop—plus VGA-resolution video camera
Roll-up screens from Philips: Just when you thought it was safe to buy an E Ink machine
E-book formats
eBabel article in Publishers Weekly draws rickety reply from Adobe e-booker
My Publishers Weekly essay on the Tower of eBabel
Microsoft Times Reader looks slick—but should news-reading be linked with operating systems?
‘The ‘E’ Doesn’t Stand for ‘Easy to Use”: Tower of eBabel mention on Chronicle of Higher Ed site
Copyright and DRM
Who killed Wowio on my Documents to Go program? (Continued)
Mystery: Who killed my Palm TX’s access to Wowio’s free books? Library DRM involved?
Of piracy, DRM and the China market
