Below are the TeleBlog’s highlights from the past week. Graphic is from Reading Wowio’s free books (and other PDFs) on a PDA.
Schools and libraries
Google vs. libraries
Writing and publishing
Blogs and creativity: F. Scott Fitzgerald as a WordPress guy
Ambulance worker’s book offered free on Net
Freeload Press makes New York Times column
‘Publishers Fight Back against Google with New Book Search Service’
Tools for creating e-books
Reading and listening
‘The New Yorker magazine: Coming to a portable hard drive near you’
Test-drive of the HarperCollins Reader
Public Domain Books, Ready for Your iPod’
Mystery: Who killed my Palm TX’s access to Wowio’s free books?
Reading Wowio’s free books (and other PDFs) on a PDA
Recent English sci-fi at Project Gutenberg
Digital textual studies
Harlequin’s 99-cent e-story offerings
‘Where reading paper books is like having sex’
Hardware
Women, purses and PDAs (redux)
$100 laptop is now the CM1, aka ‘the Children’s Machine’: Score one for Aljazeera
OLPC/CMI in the U.S.
Dear Ja(y)ne: So can purses save the PDA market?
Hello, Palm? You need jog-wheel dials on all your PDAs
Behind $100 laptop’s high-res display
Next-gen Palm Treo
E-book formats
Did accessibility issue hurt OpenOffice?
JEP article and OpenReader
Copyright and DRM
Michael Geist’s ’30 Days of DRM’
Poll on DRMed books: Give up resale rights, etc., if the price is right?
Yes, Virginia, there are e-book pirates
