Librarians debate Gates’ PC gifts–and even he’s skeptical
Bill Gates hoped that donated PCs would reinvigorate rural America and otherwise help close the digital divide. Alas, many bright young people in farm country are using library computers to...
Dorothea Salo on consumer e-book formats
E-book format guru Dorothea Salo, who's put in her share of hours to help develop Open eBook standards, has offered a thoughtful reply to my plea for a consumer e-book...
NY Times reviews Tablet PCs
"Microsoft faces a tough competitor, the dominant player in the business-meeting note-taking market. It's a rugged, crashproof portable that accommodates any writing implement, feels just like paper and costs .02...
The Moynihan jihad
David Moynihan's silly little jihad goes on against TeleRead. We're an advocacy site about ideas, such as the goal of well-stocked national digital libraries in the States and elsewhere; and...
The ele(c)tions
Republicans, already a House majority, have won control of the Senate. The good news is that Democrat Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, one of the leading champions of Hollywood at the expense...
‘Hollywood Inside’
"To thwart hackers and foster on-line commerce, the next generation of computers will almost certainly cede some control to software firms, Hollywood and other outsiders. That could break a long-standing...
The strange world of David Moynihan
David Moynihan puts out an excellent Web site called Blackmask Online, an e-bookstore whose offerings I would highly recommend. It appears, however, that on occasions the man lives in a...
Harry Potter vs. pirates
China isn't the friendliest territory for that Western invention known as copyright. A Washington Post article, dated November 1, chronicles the outrages committed against the author and publisher of the...
TeleRead and writers
If you're a writer, this isn't just a recession--it's a Depression, capital D, with so many magazines and Web sites folding, and with the book market less than stellar.The latest...
The format wars
In our October 28 discussion of PDF vs. Open eBook Format, we said: "OEB, though much influenced by Microsoft, is evolving with input from many other companies." True, true, true....