The paper pirates
Oh, no. Now they're pirating comic books that are on paper. A big grassroots project is underway on Usenet to scan in the images from '50s hits. A lesson here...
CanadaComputes on K-12 e-books
One of our big gripes against Gemstar has been the troubled company's contempt for user-created material, whether in K-12 or elsewhere. Never mind teachers, librarians and others with their own...
Why ‘free’ is good for Wi-Fi
"We've argued before that various eating establishments are better off offering free Wi-Fi to their customers than trying to squeeze the extra cash out of their pockets. Here's yet another...
Ruth Hopps’ book-scramble
"When Ruth Ann Hopps goes to Powell's Books in Portland, she sometimes lingers at the store for hours with a list in hand. After her October trip, she left with...
Beta vs. VHS in e-books: Everyone HAS been the loser
"The important thing, from my point of view, is that we don't repeat a Beta vs. VHS disaster. In the VCR field, consumers delayed their choices. Ultimately, if they wanted...
Needed: Better ‘reading pen’ for disabled people
Editor's note: Amos Bokros, long active in TeleRead, lives in Florida and will soon enter teaching. He has a reading disability believed to be caused by a combination of dyslexia...
Words to plan schools by–and libraries, too
Turns out that John de Jong, a coauthor of the literacy report mentioned by the BBC, saw the TeleRead blog directly from his computer in Holland--without the BBC having forwarded...
Upton Sinclair classic on media coverups
The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism is the classic expose of media coverups. So TeleRead is reproducing nine chapters of Upton Sinclair's book--perhaps the first time that so...
When poor kids grow up in book-rich households
"Children's interest in reading has more impact on their academic performance than their socio-economic group, research suggests. Young people from even the most deprived backgrounds could outshine their more affluent...
J school copyright blog
Last June certain bloggers dreaded the forthcoming debut of a copyright-oriented blog from the graduate J school at the University of California at Berkeley. Why let the establishment co-opt the...