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On le savait depuis un petit moment, et même que durant quelque temps, David Rothman nous avait proposé de devenir acquéreur de TeleRead (c'est très sérieux comme info, j'ai les mails à votre disposition, pour les sceptiques...). Car voilà, TeleRead n'est pas simplement une mine précieuse de renseignements, c'est avant tout un travail quotidien lourd et qu'à un moment, David préfère se consacrer à l'écriture plutôt qu'à la veille sur internet. Et personne n'y trouvera à redire. David quittera donc son poste de rédacteur en chef et éditeur, laissant à Paul Biba le soin de poursuivre la route. Avec près...

You never know who’s reading you when you write for TeleRead. In the The New Yorker’s Book Bench blog today, Macy Halford’s E-Free post linked to two TeleRead contributions. One was from David Wilk (Don’t ignore the reader: E-book pricing models and theories of value); the other, from Richard Adin (a proposal to kill off paperbacks). As it happened, I agreed with Macy Halford. She approved of David’s idea of bundling free e-books with paper books but disliked Rich’s thought of killing off paperbacks. Here’s to reader choice! But look, I’m glad we ran both essays; perhaps time will show Rich to...

A detachable keyboard for a small portable---the idea is hardly new. Elonex has one already with a spalshpoof keyboard you can separate. That’s also a form factor I envisioned for TeleReaders back in 1992, and surely others had gone before me. You could always arrange for hinges or a stand to prop up the screen. The results might even be nicer for extended typing than a laptop since you could separately vary your distances from the screen and keyboard. So what do you think of Freescale Semiconductor’s smartbook reference design, ready for CES. If reality, the design...

Been reading e-books for years (or at least have boned up on ‘em in a hurry)? Want to share your expertise with others? Then write for TeleRead. E-mail us and point us to a Web site or other writing samples. You don’t have to be Ernest Hemingway---we just want plain, clear English and a knowledge of e-books. TeleRead is a meritocracy. Credentials count less than whether your words can please some tough editors, namely our readers. They nitpick away at everything, my stuff included, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Housekeeping: The ABCs of format conversion---and why you should...

Earlier item here. Thanks to Phil Bosua at LOL Software!. Technorati Tags: RSS,RSS readers...

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it. And the same best wishes for other TeleRead community members, about their respective holidays, including Chanukah, my own. Happy New Year, too! At the industry level, what do you want for 2010? Here are the “gifts” I’d like: --Lower prices for e-book gizmos. They’re still typically about $200 and up, although I have seen the JetBook Lite on sale for around $130, a price no longer in effect, alas. Just what will hardware will it take for e-books to become a mass phenomenon? Of course, people can spend less than $50 to read them...

TeleRead, the oldest general e-book news and view site in the English language, has some new spring in its step following a successful move to a new server. Pages should load faster in your Web browser, and outages should be rare. Like the new page load speed? Big  thanks to the FullThrottle Development, a WordPress specialist among other things, for making the transition so smooth. Technorati Tags: FullThrottle Development,WordPress Upgrades...

If all goes well, FullThrottle Development will begin TeleRead’s move to a speedier server at around 10 p.m. Washington, D.C., time. Once the maintenance notice is up, please delay comments until FullThrottle is done---so your words survive the move. I’m just guessing that the move will take several hours. Adding to the thrills, the Washington, D.C., area is due for up to 16 inches of snow, and the electricity just may fail in the Inner Sanctum of the TeleBlog. Oh, the suspense! Stop by and see what we’re up to---or not. Not sure what the...

Good news, gang. A zippier TeleRead is ahead---one where the pages will load up, lickety-split. In the next few days we’ll move to a server run by FullThrottle Development, the outfit behind WordPress Upgrades. The more we dealt with FullThrottle, the more we liked Glenn Ansley and colleagues, and it turns out that their company provides a lot of services that we may need in the future. Big thanks to Brett Fielo, who graciously donated Webhead Design’s services. Brett’s swamped with work right now, and meanwhile our own needs have changed, and it just would not make sense for Brett to...

A while back I published an article on the equipment I used to cover the various press events I go to for TeleRead, Palm Addict and GPSPassion. You can find it here. I thought you might find it interesting to see how I work on the TeleRead site. I write for the site on a 17" MacBook Pro with a 500GB hard drive. The Pro is also connected to an external mains-powered 1TB hard drive with 2 partitions, one for a Time Machine Backup and another where I keep all my data. In addition to this I use three...

Historian Robert Darnton, the director of the Harvard University Library and author of The Case for Books, a valuable work in many ways, is right to worry about Google wreaking havoc on libraries. But here’s one mystery about The Case. While delving into the evolution of books, Prof. Darnton devotes not one word to Project Gutenberg despite the project’s importance in the world of digitized books. Of less concern, since the TeleRead idea is just that, an idea for a well-integrated national digital library system, not an actual system, Darnton does not mention my own proposal despite its...