DRP 2010

In the 15th century Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing process. This new technology changed the world forever. One specific task was made incredibly easy - the spreading of written words. eBooks take us to the threshold of a possible shift in the way we read books.

Some useful information about ebooks

China has the largest online population, and Chinese writers are seeking for their copyrights on Google Book.

Marieke Hardy, who some may know from The First Tuesday Book Club on the ABC and also as a Melbourne Triple J presenter is going to launch a "mbook". Mbooks are where a story is sent by SMS over a number of days. This style of writing has become very popular in Japan.

This article discusses the kindle reader - what it is, content, downsides.

Google's Android operating system for mobile phones will be available on the Verizon Wireless network

The Google book settlement is far from being resolved, as objections persist both from private business, and even government agencies.

Eager to attract digitally savvy patrons and capitalize on the growing popularity of electronic readers, public libraries are expanding collections of books that reside on servers rather than shelves

Google announced more details about their upcoming online ebook service.

MySpace is giving up to compete with Facebook, and it repositions itself as an online hub for music and entertainment

Online publishing infringement is a challenge to publishers. So the online publishing regulation should cover more doctrines to adept to the digtial environment.

This article is about to review how newspaers report developments though years.

Today, users are adding metadata and using tags to organize their own digital collections, categorize the content of others and build bottom-up classification systems.

Sony abandons its propriety technology in response to consumer dissatisfaction.

The aim of this article is to examine the reading trend on literary, and to study how people read different materials in terms of age.

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.

Objective: To understand belief in a specific scientific claim by studying the pattern of citations among papers stating it.

Facebook and Google are finding a new way to expand their services, which is to offer music on their websites.

This is a llst of the most pirated ebooks from file sharing site, BitTorrent. Given nearly all of them are software guides or porn, the article says the publishing industry doesn't have much to worry about in terms of lost revenue - although the Twilight series is number seven.