Library Wise
From Jerry Justianto of Pocket PC eBook Watch:
An Exclusive Interview with Libwise / Fictionwise's Scott PendergrastWhat is your vision regarding elibrary in the next 2 years? Scott: The library market...
Almost 10,000 Palm Reader e-books
So reports E-Content xtra. - Via Pocket PC eBooks Watch.The TeleRead take: That's an impressive number on the surface, but still just a fraction of the annual output of U.S....
Copyright Munich?
"Major players in the entertainment and technology industries plan to announce a measure of detente today in what are increasingly contentious battles over the best way to prevent digital piracy...
Library books with whiskers
Half of Colorado's school library books are more than 15 years old, according to the Library Research Service. Forget about the Berlin Wall, the bombing of the World Trade Center,...
School libraries and reading scores
The following short item appeared on the National Literacy Trust site for the UK. From a TeleRead perspective, it's tremendously relevant since the plan would greatly increase the number of...
ED pushes format for textbooks for disabled
"The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is spending nearly $200,000 to create a single 'national file format' that will be used to make textbooks accessible to blind or disabled students....
Open-source books from Prentice Hall
"Prentice Hall is publishing a line of computer books, the 'Bruce Perens' Open Source Series.' The first titles have already arrived for sale in bookstores like Barnes & Noble, and...
Cory Doctorow’s free novel: Walking the walk
Cory Doctorow, blogger and EFF activist extraordinaire and enemy of copyright greedsters everywhere, is giving away his first novel for free--thereby "walking the walk," as Wired News aptly puts it....
Internet search engine blackout of Dan Jackson Software
A mainstream news site, Cnet, published a direct link to Dan Jackson Software, source of a crack program for copy-protected .lit files--Microsoft format for e-books. But Microsoft has still done...
Comic books and copyright: A lesson for lawyers
In Red Herring, Larry Lessig offers a fascinating case study from Japan--to show that publishers can prosper by not making copyright an end in itself. - Via Techdirt.
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...
