Grim library stats from the U.K.
"Readers are deserting public libraries, depressed by shabby decor, odd opening hours and the impossibility of getting the book they want, according to a report into the country's libraries. Despite...
E-book highlights in ’02
1. DRM5 Microsoft Reader has been cracked by a 32K program.2. Not guilty for Elcomsoft in providing a program to crack Adobe-format e-books--for fair use.3. More mainstream e-books are available....
Digital Owl: The last hoot
"DigitalOwl.com - Hooters: E-book company, DigitalOwl.com, just bit the dust after three years of operation and burning through $11 million in venture investments." - F'd Company.The TeleRead take: Pocket PC...
Milllionaire politicians: Too rich to empathize?
"The congressional Class of 2002, which has more than two-dozen millionaires, will face votes on issues that could affect their financial holdings." - The Associated Press, Dec. 25.The TeleRead take:...
Microsoft e-book horror story
So you want to know why even honest e-book buyers will cherish software to help them crack encryption schemes? Read a horror story that we just ran across from a...
A Merry Christmas (via the public domain)
Merry Christmas to all of our readers who celebrate it! Luckily even the most zealous of the copyright Scrooges cannot wipe out the entire public domain. And so, via an...
Copywrong backlash
"Are we expected to simply pay our money up front in the vain hope that sometimes we will be allowed to read? We believe this was not the intent of...
Engineers as terrorists?
TeleRead has emphasized the need to enrich the Net with literature--not just upload "practical" technical information. Balance, please. And now we've run across some possible new fodder for this argument....
Software to crack Microsoft Reader
Reminder: Jerry Justianto submitted this from Indonesia. Heres in the States, serious legal questions exist about the ability of use of software to circumvent encryption, the reason I've deleted a link...
The ultimate math archive
The Mathematics Survey Proposal calls for a new means of organizing, communicating and archiving mathematical knowledge, by a faithful representation of that knowledge in cyberspace. The purpose is first...