New ALA official CLOSING neighborhood library branches in Baltimore
TeleRead has always supported the concept of neighborhood libraries, especially those near schools. Well-stocked national digital libraries aren't going to happen overnight. Beyond that, neighorhood libraries help supply the glue...
Creative Commons: When creators want to bypass copyright–or at least make it more flexible
Copyight laws may harm writers, artists and musicians at times by making it harder to share their works with other creators and the world at large. Ironically, under certain circumstances,...
TeleRead and Disabled Readers: An Update from Amos Bokros
The essay below is an update from Amos Bokros, a key participant in TeleRead, who tells how technology has helped him cope with a reading disability, and how TeleRead could...
$10 Hemingway e-books: Oh, come on
Reuters this week carries an column headlined NetTrends: E-Book Story Fails to Unfold. It's an informative column, but fails to address the big issue: Why are publishers so often charging...
Technical difficulties: The unwanted time machine
The newest version of this blogging software still has a way to go. The system apparently went back to an earlier, less polished version of this log. Luckily I distrusted...
Project Gutenberg and libraries: How TeleRead could help reconcile the two approaches
The news establishment has not always cottoned well to blogging. Turf-intrusion alarms go off. As Glenn Harlan Reynolds has noted, bloggers in effect serve as freelance editors--hyper-eager not only to...
TeleRead gaining notice in Europe
TeleRead is drawing some attention in Europe. We were mentioned May 5 in a Polish publication called Palm Page. It picked up our discussion of the benefits of e-books to...
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...
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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...
