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Locus Awards 2013 Ballot Announced

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 09 May 2013 20:54:13 +0000

From Boing Boing comes news of this year’s Locus nominees, shared there because one of its editors, Cory Doctorow, is nominated. I am not a huge SF reader, so most of these have stayed off my radar. But if you go for that stuff, enjoy this list of good books! SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL • The Hydrogen [...]

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Updated: WH Smith adding DRM to Cory Doctorow books, and others’

Dan Eldridge — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:28:04 +0000

Could there possibly be a modern author better known for his extremely anti-DRM stance than Cory Doctorow? Certainly not many, at any rate. But Kobo owners visiting the WH Smith e-retail store and attempting to buy Doctorow’s books would be forgiven for thinking otherwise: They’ve all been saddled with digital rights management. (Scroll down for the incriminating screen shot.) [...]

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Class Action Lawsuit Against Amazon and Publishers Misses the Mark

Juli Monroe — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:52:27 +0000

According to the Huffington Post, three independent bookstores are filing a class action suit against Amazon and the “Big Six” publishers. Alyson Decker of Blecher & Collins PC, lead counsel acting for the bookstores, described DRM as “a problem that affects many independent bookstores.” She said the complaint is still in the process of being served [...]

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Our upcoming TOC 2013 coverage

Dan Eldridge — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:39:06 +0000

O’Reilly’s annual Tools of Change for Publishing conference just got underway this morning at the New York Marriott Marquis in Manhattan. And while we unfortunately weren’t able to make it New York for the event’s first day, we will be on the scene, tweeting and reporting live, throughout days two and three. Today’s big TOC [...]

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Amazon’s zapping of customer’s Kindle library shows why we need library-provided ‘content lockers’ (Updated)

David Rothman — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:54:53 +0000

What if Amazon wiped out all your Kindle books and refused to let you open another account? I don’t know what if any sins a customer committed, but such an Orwellian scenario is said to have actually happened. No, I’m not just talking about the remote deletion of 1984, but rather the mysterious zapping of the customer’s entire [...]

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Morning Roundup — Links To Start Your Day

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:52:35 +0000

Chapters will Have the Kobo Mini & Glo September 30th (Good E-Reader) >>> Nintendo 3DS to get Bookstore in Japan (The Digital Reader) How Indie Bookstores Failed to Recognize the Buying Power of the Mass-Market Reader (Dear Author) Going Blind? DRM will Dim Your World (Boing Boing) ♦ Kindle Daily Deal: Bewitching by Jill Barnett (and) Mockingbird by [...]

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Harvard Business Review Press Joins the DRM-Free Crowd

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 21:44:18 +0000

When the O’Reilly and TOR publishing companies announced their now-historic decisions to drop all DRM from their respective e-books, it’s probably fair to say that the digital reading community felt nearly as vindicated as it did relieved, and elated. But for the most part, O’Reilly and TOR both serve reading demographics that are especially tech-savvy–the types of readers, in other [...]

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Public.Resource.Org challenges payment-required laws

Chris Meadows — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 05:20:55 +0000

Public.Resource.Org archivist Carl Malamud has a guest post on BoingBoing talking about a use case for e-books if ever there was one. However, for this project he is actually starting out with paper—thirty pounds of it. Malamud writes about the peculiar phenomenon of secret, payment-required laws that are on the books all over the United [...]

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Lessons from 10 years of Pepys’ diaries online

Paul Biba — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:25:43 +0000

For ten years, Phil Gyford has been republishing Samuel Pepys’s diaries online in one-entry-per-day chunks. On the way, he and a growing community of readers, historians, literary scholars and enthusiasts have annotated Pepys’s legendary accounts of life in 17th century London. In this presentation, Phil walks us through the most surprising and interesting moments [...]

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Make Magazine now available in DRM-free PDF

Chris Meadows — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 03:44:19 +0000

Mark Frauenfelder, editor in chief of MAKE Magazine, has posted at BoingBoing that all back-issues of MAKE are now available for purchase in DRM-free PDF format. The price is $9.99 per issue, or all 24 standard plus 2 special issues thus far for $199.99. This is $5 less per issue than the paper copies, though [...]

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Portable lighthouse keeper libraries

Paul Biba — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:35:24 +0000

From BoingBoing: Here’s a beautiful display of the portable libraries that were once supplied to Michigan’s lighthouse keepers; click through for a partial bibliography of titles, including “MY APINGI KINGDOM: WITH LIFE IN THE GREAT SAHARA, AND SKETCHES OF THE CHASE OF THE OSTRICH, HYENA.” “In 1876 portable libraries were first introduced in the Light-House [...]

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New info from Boing Boing on the secret copyright treaty

Paul Biba — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:44:27 +0000

Here are two important posts from Boing Boing about what is going on behind the closed doors of a government in the pockets of the entertainment industry. Latest leaked draft of secret copyright treaty: US trying to cram DRM rules down the world’s throats Michael Geist writes in with the latest news on the Anti-Counterfeiting [...]

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Cory Doctorow reports on his DRM negotiations

Paul Biba — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:00:47 +0000

From Boing Boing: My August Publishers Weekly column reports in on my experiment to see which of the major ebook stores would carry my books without DRM, and with a text disclaimer at the beginning that released readers from the crazy, abusive license agreements that most of these stores demand as a condition of purchase. [...]

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Brazil’s copyright law forbids using DRM to block fair use

Paul Biba — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:31:45 +0000

This little article by Cory Doctorow in Boing Boing is important news, so I reprint it in full: A UN treaty called the WIPO Copyright Treaty requires countries to pass laws protecting “software locks” (also called DRM or TPM). Countries around the world have adopted the treaty in different ways: in the US, the Digital [...]

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