Vowing to fight unauthorized reproduction of news reports online, The Associated Press said Thursday that it will add software to each article showing who created it and what limits apply to the rights to use it. The software will also notify the A.P. about how the article is used across the Web.
one eBook-like format has already made it into the iTunes store: a comic book.
Tyrese Gibson's Mayhem!
is now available, together with one song, as an iTunes LP album for $1.99 (iTunes
link).
The book comes with a number of extras, including a 23-minute making-off video,
alternate covers, concept art, wallpapers, and optional voice-over narration and
sound effects
While Steve Jobs just told the New York Times' David Pogue that Apple isn't interested in creating a single-purpose eBook reader and that he doesn't think that eBooks are a big enough market right now, one eBook-like format has already made it into the iTunes store: a comic book. Tyrese Gibson's Mayhem! is now available, together with one song, as an iTunes LP album for $1.99 (iTunes link). Mayhem! was first released as a three-issue mini-series earlier last month
It is a good news for Internet users, especially google users to see the google books under cc licenses. The more rights of viewers to see the books, the more criticize and ideas come out. then more crticize, the more critics criticize, the better the information is shared by authors and readers. The better the information is about how to improve the books, the more improvement of content is made.
The redesign "won't just be an external, cosmetic change but something deeper",
Trivino says. "Right now it is a very confused time. The internet is just a
transitional stage in something that is happening. At News Corp we are trying to
deliver the brands through any kind of platform. So it is the Right time to
rethink, what are the core values of The Australian, and how are we going to
deliver the paper as a consistent brand?"
that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily
downloadable
and completely portable
Mr. Benkler said he saw the project as "simply an experiment of how books might
be in the future." That is one of the hottest debates in the book world right
now, as publishers, editors and writers grapple with the Web's ability to
connect readers and writers more quickly and intimately, new technologies that
make it easier to search books electronically and the advent of digital devices
that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily
downloadable and completely portable.
For unknown authors struggling to capture the attention of busy readers,
however, the Web offers an unprecedented way to catapult out of obscurity.
For many authors, the question of how technology will shape book publishing
inevitably leads to the question of how writers will be paid.
books themselves are a relatively new construct, inheritors of a longstanding
oral storytelling culture. Mass-produced books are an even newer phenomenon,
enabled by the invention of the printing press that likely put legions of
calligraphers and bookbinders out of business.
Yochai Benkler, a Yale University law professor and author of the new book "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom" (Yale University Press), has gone even farther: his entire book is available - free - as a download from his Web site. Between 15,000 and 20,000 people have accessed the book electronically, with some of them adding comments and links to the online version.
Google's digitized book service will tear down barriers for people living in
low-income areas, added Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership
Conference on Civil Rights.
A proposed settlement between Google and book publishers and authors will give huge new advantages to students, minorities and disabled people, supporters said Thursday.
The uproar, including a lawsuit, over the removal of copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindle devices comes as Amazon faces renewed e-book competition. Interesting article in terms of some of the issues discussed in the Thompson reading this week re the digital revolution and the publishing world.
Kirk McElhearn is a freelance writer, specializing in Macs, the iPod, iTunes, digital music and more. In addition to having written or co-written a dozen books, he is a Senior Contributor to Macworld magazine, and contributes to several other web sites and magazines. He reviews classical CDs for MusicWeb and audiobooks for Audiofile, and is a translator from French to English.