Gone with the Wind blown off Aussie Gutenberg server
Down in Australia, the local Gutenberg link for Gone with the Wind is--gone. The New York Times has the details.Jon Noring, the eBook Community list moderator, who inspired the Slashdotting...
‘HarperCollins sends book samples to mobile phones’
Details via Brian at MobileRead. Oh, and guess what the name of the reader service is. "MobileReader."
Novelists' strike fails to affect U.S. whatsoever
"The Novelists Guild of America strike, now entering its fourth month, has had no impact on the nation at all," the Onion reported last week. Excerpt: "The publishing industry...
Steve Ballmer as a DRM zealot: E-bookers beware
If you think Microsoft will ever wise up about DRM, at least under the present management, just think again. Steve Ballmer has even criticized Apple's iPOD as a machine for...
VitalSource's Bookshelf 4.5: Shared highlights and annotations and adequate interface for academia
The guys at OSoft love to brag about dotReader's shared annotations and highlighting---so students and teachers, for example, can swap insights or bafflement over a passage in Ulysses. But what if...
New Convert LIT released for sanity of Microsoft Reader users
Microsoft Reader continues to drive human readers crazy with the related DRM that on occasions can mean Backup Hell and plenty else for victims. A countermeasure, Convert Lit, which allows...
“eBooks” are not “ebook” in search engine
Try to search "ebooks" in a search engine...Do you think that it will include the singular "ebook" in the results?Nope. "ebooks" is a different noun from "ebook," and the search...
No backlighting for Jinke 7.5-inch LCD machine, alas
Alas, the Jinke Electronics' LCD machine with the 7.5 inch screen lacks backlighting, according to en email from Maple, a Jinke rep. Excerpt:
I admit that the LCD is cheaper than...
‘Put Wikipedia on your iPod’
Here, from Lifehacker. Details from Encyclopodia. Don't do this if you want your iPod to retain all its original functionality.
DOJ compares Apple to Big Oil
For those of you who might be trying desperately to keep up with the Department of Justice's ebooks case, but are nevertheless finding yourselves falling behind (or falling asleep, even, every...
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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...
