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For more free textbooks, look at iTunes U

Aggregated Content — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:48:07 +0000

By Dr. Frank Lowney This past weekend, Dr. Frank Lowney, an occasional TeleRead contributor, brought to our attention an online archive of free, Creative Commons licensed university textbooks known as the Flatworld Knowledge Book Archive. We heard from Dr. Lowney again yesterday; he told us that “another, larger source of free e-textbooks can actually be found [...]

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iTunes U hits one billion downloads

Aggregated Content — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:29:55 +0000

By Jonathan Pena Apple has announced that iTunes U has topped one billion downloads, an impressive number for a service launched just few years ago. Apple debuted iTunes U in 2007, expanding its library beyond laptops and computers when the company created its own iTunes U iOS app for mobile devices. Apple’s SVP of Internet Software [...]

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Why We Need a Subscription Model for E-Books

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:00:17 +0000

Brett Sandusky at Digital Book World has an interesting write-up on digital subscriptions. He ruminates on the pros and cons of two different models: the ‘modular’ subscription, where customers subscribe to one thing at a time, as they wish, versus the bundle model, where customers pay a fixed amount for a package deal which includes the [...]

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Lessons from Hollywood: Resist change at your own peril?

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:30:20 +0000

Tech Dirt ran a great article last week (which was a reaction to this New York Times article) about the struggles Hollywood is facing as it attempts to ‘remain relevant’ while important content seems to be moving to cheaper, faster-to-market television. From the article: “The industry really only has itself to blame for continuing to churn out expensive remakes and [...]

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iOS 6 Now Available

a TeleRead Contributor — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:13:40 +0000

By Bill Stiteler | for Appletell iOS 6 is now available for download. The new operating system for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch can be downloaded over the air from the device, or via iTunes, and requires 2.4 GB of space. The update is compatible with the iPhone 3GS or better, the 4th generation iPod touch, and [...]

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Apple.com searches spill the beans on what will be announced later today

a TeleRead Contributor — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:51:44 +0000

By Robert Nelson | for Gadget Tell In what confirms some of the rampant rumors, the Apple.com website has revealed some of what will be unveiled later today. The results were first discovered by the folks over at 9to5Mac, however they are easy enough to replicate on your own (at least at the moment). A search [...]

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REVIEW: Logitech Keyboard Case for iPad

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:17:13 +0000

One of the things that has fascinated me about the gadget revolution is how over time, functions have increasingly begun overlapping. I currently have three devices I regularly use on which I can read my Kindle books—and I can seamlessly move between them. I can spend an hour reading on the couch on my Kindle [...]

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ReDigi lawsuit raises questions of fair use and first sale in digital age

Chris Meadows — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 23:56:19 +0000

The Boston Globe has a report on the record labels’ lawsuit against ReDigi, the company that is trying to bring first sale rights to digital music (and, by extension, digital movie and book) sales. I’ve mentioned ReDigi a number of times, from when it was first conceived (after several similar used-digital-goods efforts failed miserably) to [...]

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E-book piracy not the threat music piracy was, Listen.com founder says

Chris Meadows — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:33:36 +0000

Brian Stauffer, founder of 1999 digital music startup Listen.com (better known by the name of its music service, Rhapsody), had an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago comparing and contrasting the response of record labels and publishers to the digital changeover of their respective media, and the piracy issues these [...]

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Steve Jobs talked content-owners into a new digital market

Chris Meadows — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:15:00 +0000

On PaidContent, Charles Arthur brings up one of the important facets of Steve Jobs’s legacy that tends to get overshadowed by Jobs’s hardware successes. Quite apart from all the gadgets Jobs designed, he also designed a new business model for the music industry: the 99-cent song. The headline of Arthur’s article suggests that Jobs’s great [...]

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Should we be reading the iTunes licensing agreement more carefully?

Chris Meadows — Sat, 07 May 2011 23:07:59 +0000

CNN has an interesting look at something we all do without thinking about it. Whether we use an iPod, iPhone, or iPad for e-reading or just for music, when we want to upgrade iTunes, we don’t bother to read through 52 pages of legalese. We just click the accept button and assume that “Nothing bad [...]

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DRM vs. piracy, and the future of e-books

Chris Meadows — Sun, 01 May 2011 00:28:14 +0000

Opinions on DRM vs. piracy are like noses: everyone has one, and they all smell. Lately, I ran across a fairly interesting piece containing the opinions of Roland Denning, a London-based writer and filmmaker, on Self Publishing Review. I can’t entirely agree with it, but it does offer a good basis for discussion. Denning sees [...]

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Does Steve Jobs hate reading?

Chris Meadows — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:58:38 +0000

That’s the provocative theory put forward by Sue Zoldak in an opinion piece on The Daily Caller blog. She starts out by noting that in some cases hardcover prices are lower than e-book prices (something I’ve mentioned before myself), and points out that—unlike the iTunes deal that lowered the price of music when sold digitally—Jobs [...]

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Eminem royalty ruling has broader implications for digital media sales

Chris Meadows — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 22:03:13 +0000

I hadn’t been paying much attention to the court ruling issued in the case of white rapper Eminem suing his record labels for more money. But then I saw this piece in Techdirt about it, and had to reconsider. It may not have direct implications for e-books specifically, but it definitely has larger implications for [...]

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Apple in talks to allow unlimited music re-downloading, anonymous sources say

Chris Meadows — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:29:09 +0000

How can music be more like e-books? Well, if the rumors are true, Apple is in the process of negotiating to patch one of the biggest differences between the iTunes music store and the way most vendors treat e-books (not to mention the iPhone/iPad app store): Bloomberg cites anonymous sources who claim Apple is in [...]

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