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Quick Notes: new IREX; “Kindled” article; new piracy figures
January 14, 2010 | 5:03 pm
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By Paul Biba
The new IREX 800S 8.1 inch screen unit will be available on Monday in the IREX store for $600. It doesn’t have connectivity, and supports only PDF and epub formats. It has a Wacom touch sensor with stylus. According to the specs it only works with Windows XP or Vista. No Mac?
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The New Republic has an article, Kindled, by Anthony Grafton on the Kindle and two book reviews: The Case for Books, Past, Present and Future, by Robert Darnton, and On the Commerce of Thinking, Of Books & Bookstores, by Jean-Luc Nancy.
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Publishers Weekly is reporting that Attrubutor, whose FairShare Guardian service monitors the web for illegally published content, is saying that publishers are loosing as much as $3 billion to piracy. The reports of the study that I’ve seen show that the company is making a whole lot of assumptions in reaching these figures – some of them stretching, IMHO.
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Actually it says “Publishers COULD be losing out on as much as $3 billion to online book piracy, a new report released today by Attributor estimates. Not are loosing. Not only that they are estimates. I wonder if they read the book how to lie with statistics, or are being paid by the publishers to put this out as the case for drm.
From the 4 share sites they listed, I personally wouldn’t touch them with a ten foot pole. I can’t think of a better way to get a computer virus, malware etc. I don’t believe in share sites or companies that offer anonymous servers either.
Yes, and I’d like to hear some specifics on how many billions publishers are losing to public and academic libraries! It must swamp the losses claimed to piracy.
Perhaps publishers need to get their corporate owners to drum up some laws closing all libraries; or would revoking the ‘first sale’ doctrine be enough? Oh, wait, never mind: budget cuts will kill all our libraries anyhow. And then the children, howling illiterate in the night, will buy tons of books. They won’t buy them to read, though.
Did I miss something? An eBook Reader for 600 $, no wireless, anything else fancy? Btw, works ob the Mac. Says on the website.