eBook Subscription Services Are Legal in France (Ink, Bits & Pixels)
Kindle Unlimited and its local competitors Izneo, Youscribe, and Youboox were given five months to bring their services into compliance with the legal decision. I don’t have news yet on Kindle Unlimited but I can report that Youboox, Izneo, and Youscribe are either now legal in France, or will be soon.
TeleRead Take: Fixed price book laws lead to lots of unintended consequences.
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How A Simple Metadata Fix Can Double Book Sales (Publishing Perspective)
Ronald Schild CEO of Germany’s MVB discusses how research shows simple metadata fixes, like putting the language of a book in your metadata, can double sales.
TeleRead Take: I can see why this would work for foreign language books, but I wish they had said if it worked for English as well.
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Designer Knockoff Enthusiast Issues DMCA Notice Targeting Half The Internet, Fails To Remove A Single URL (Techdirt)
Eva Knox runs a site dedicated to the discussion of knockoff designer goods. This is probably not the best launching pad for infringement accusations, but whatever. Knox is a very prolific issuer of DMCA takedown notices. She issued 276 notices over a two-week period in May, targeting (used only in the vaguest sense) over 8,500 URLs.
TeleRead Take: “Half the Internet” was a a massive exaggeration, but the article is worth reading as an example of yet another person who doesn’t seem to understand how the Internet works.
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No, It’s Samsung, Not Swiftkey, That Is To Blame For This Keyboard Security Scare (Tech Crunch)
The media is blowing up right now at a startup called Swiftkey which was named in an announcement at a Black Hat conference about a bug in most Samsung smartphones that could allow hackers to attack the phone and spy on users.
TeleRead Take: The part I found most interesting was the bit on why this is (yet another) reason it’s a bad idea for third party apps to be pre-installed to a device.
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Kindle Daily Deals: The Bone Orchard (and others)
