Linkback
Link to Disenchanted and some other sites on the Net, and they might display the address of your Web site--automatically. Check out Jon Udell's recent observations on the trend. You...
Quote, Unquote: Marylaine Block on digital access and preservation
Marylaine Block, a library consultant, trainer and writer, runs the highly readable Ex Libris site, an e-zine that I'll call a blog even though it's actually much more. I have...
Yahoo and TeleRead
Like Stewart Alsop, I love Yahoo and use My Yahoo as a start-up page. By far this is the ultimate customized newspaper and much more, despite some interesting new alternatives...
Virginia vs. Hollywood tyranny
Congratulations to Congressman Rick Boucher for his plans to introduce legislation to reverse one of the more loathsome aspects of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Under the DCMA, you can't...
Boston Globe columnist on e-books and handhelds
"Contrary to the fears of paper-loving bibliophiles, handheld computers are an excellent format for straight-ahead leisure reading. All it takes is some basic e-book software--one very good reader, CSpotRun,...
Creative Commons: What it could mean to schools and libraries
Earlier this TeleBlog discussed Creative Commons--a way for artists, writers, musicians and others to share material and promote themselves without permissions nightmares or onerous fees to frighten off each other...
Your personal library home page, TeleRead style
Just back from the home page of the library system in Fairfax County, VA, the one whose collection I use far more often than Alexandria's because the county's is both...
K-12 students to get computers one on one–but what about the content?
Back in the early '90s TeleRead was making the wacky suggestion that schools should provide book-optimized computers for students, or at least those who couldn't afford them otherwise. Well, it's...
Webbed book reviews: Time for librarians to step in?
M.J. Rose this week notes the reduction in space for printed book reviews. She does see some hope, though--in the form of the reviews at Amazon.com and other places on...
“Potential decline in young readers”
Today's Washington Post carries some gloomy statistics about book sales, including one publishing executive's observation that "total sales of trade units declined 6.4 percent in 2001," with more trouble ahead....
AMAZON
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...
