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	<title>TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics &#187; Garson O.</title>
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		<title>Google, Lessig challenge WSJ story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garson O'Toole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Responses to a Wall Street Journal article are now appearing from Google and Larry Lessig&#8212;both have substantial criticisms of the article. An earlier TeleBlog item discussed the WSJ piece in terms of the possible e-book ramifications if the article were right. It isn&#8217;t, according to Richard Whitt, the Washington Telecom and Media Counsel for Google [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to ignore reality: Be a publisher&#8212;live in a delusional world</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TorrentFreak reports: The Pirate Bay has reached yet another milestone. Today, they track more than 20 million unique peers for the first time since the site was launched. It is estimated that the Pirate Bay tracks more than half of all BitTorrent users at any given point in time. By November 2007, The Pirate Bay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard rejects Google scanning settlement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Harvard Crimson, Harvard University does not want to participate in the copyright settlement agreed to by Google and publishers. The Crimson reports that in a letter released to library staff, University Library Director Robert C. Darnton &#8217;60 said that uncertainties in the settlement made it impossible for HUL to participate. &#8220;As we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Google now extracts text from images in PDFs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garson O'Toole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The official Google blog contains an announcement of a new strategy for building a more comprehensive index of the text on the web. A substantive fraction of Web documents are embodied in PDF (Portable Document Format) files that consist of images in series. These files do not contain text directly. Instead, they contain pictures of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Color e-paper debuts. Is it really e-paper?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garson O'Toole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Color e-paper will debut in a display from Qualcomm reports Technology Review in their November issue. The publication uses a curious definition for &#8220;e-paper&#8221;. They say it means the display &#8220;has no backlighting and thus can be read in direct sunlight.&#8221; The display consists of &#8220;two layers of a reflective material&#8221;. &#8220;Some wavelengths of light [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Social DRM&#8217; needs another name: &#8216;Watermark&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garson O'Toole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill McCoy, the General Manager of ePublishing at Adobe, wrote an influential blog posting that catapulted the term &#8220;social DRM&#8221; into wide use. He said &#8220;For eBooks, I really like the &#8216;social DRM&#8217; approach of The Pragmatic Programmers, who &#8216;stamp&#8217; PDF eBooks with a &#8216;For the Exclusive Use of &#8230;&#8217; and the name of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oprah&#8217;s new favorite gadget: The Kindle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garson O'Toole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Financial Times (FT) journalist believes that Oprah is likely to endorse the Kindle on her show on Friday. The front page of the Amazon store displays a teaser video featuring the talk show star; however, it is modified so that the gadget Oprah holds in her hand is hidden behind a superimposed light burst. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>XO Laptops in New York City Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garson O'Toole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Editors note:  any mistakes in this post are the editor's, not the contributor's.  PB] Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), originally wished to provide inexpensive laptops to poor children in developing countries. That seminal vision is now being realized in places like the rural community of Gaire in Papua New Guinea where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OLPC innovator wants to market a screen &#8220;just for reading&#8221; within two years</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garson O'Toole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Lou Jepsen is the designer of the remarkable display screen of the OLPC (One laptop per child). I have walked with an OLPC from the interior of a house into a sunny yard, and the experience is remarkable. The LCD (liquid-crystal display) image of the laptop is transformed from a full-color transmissive display while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Silly Putty factor: What if an award-winning author changes the original to do a &#8216;preferred edition&#8217;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garson O'Toole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moderator&#8217;s note: Garson&#8217;s essay is timely, given that Publishers Weekly is zapping online archives of E-Book Report and two other blogs. E-text is like Silly Putty&#8212;endlessly malleable. You can even go beyond that and delete it.  &#8211; D.R. While listening to an audiobook of a well-known multi-award winning novel I was surprised to find that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compulsory e-books&#8212;also known as &#8216;user manuals&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garson O'Toole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When will publishers and consumers accept e-books on a wide scale?&#8221; is a question that many readers of this blog have probably entertained. Some powerful companies have already unabashedly embraced e-books. Perhaps you think I am referring to Amazon or Sony? But the relationships Jeff Bezos and Howard Stringer have with e-books are mere dalliances [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;E-Paper in living color: Materials advances could bring color, video and flexibility&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Rothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Meanwhile, tweaks to the particles, solution, and electronics have boosted the refresh rate from one frame per second in current displays to 30 frames per second in a &#8216;video ink&#8217; prototype. E Ink is working with partners to develop flexible transistors for use in color displays; eventually, such displays could even roll up. Commercialization is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you pay $250 for book annotations? Why the IDPF needs a standard for shared annotations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garson O'Toole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moderator&#8217;s note: How timely. Bryan Berry with the One Laptop Per Child K-12 project in Nepal, whom I met an an OLPC meeting last night, confirmed to me that shared annotations would be most welcome over there. Annotations are not just for high-level academia. &#8211; D.R. Lexicon Urthus by Michael Andre-Driussi is an out-of-print, expensive, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Book Search: A powerful tool for investigating phrase origins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garson O'Toole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google recently announced that Columbia University has become the 28th library to join with Google Book Search &#8220;to digitize works from its collections, and make them searchable and discoverable online.&#8221; For many years TeleRead has been in the vanguard in advocating the creation of huge national digital libraries, ideally well-linked with each other and as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;One-sixth of Library of Congress collection missing&#8217;: Digitization, anyone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garson O'Toole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A disturbing report in the Washington Post indicates that millions of items are missing or misplaced at the Library of Congress. Maybe it is time to digitize the collection and make multiple distributed copies. LOC has some digitization efforts going on, but obviously it could stand more. Moderator&#8217;s note: I wonder if any libraries are [...]]]></description>
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