DRP 2010

More on Google and its attempt to create a huge digital library and bookshop -- the legal battle continues.

Sony ismaking a real push into this area with a new Publisher Portal and partnerships with self-publishing companies Smashwords and Author Solutions. This is really good news for self-publishing avoiding the traffic that Amazon does.

"Sony ramps up e-book self-publishing options"

Google and IBM to donate computing wares to universities with the "hope of training a new breed of engineers and scientists to think in Internet scale".

most US resident do not want to receive targeted web ads due to concern of their prvaicy.

At the end of his keynote on Monday at Sharepoint 2009, an interviewer asked Steve Ballmer about social computing. He recounted a story about a friend of his, ...

News Cops. withheld the e-book edition to maximize their hard cover sales.

An invitation to a New York event suggests Barnes & Noble may introduce its e-reading device on Oct. 20 with a feature other devices don't have.

After finally reaching a formal agreement with authors and publishers, a host of other heavyweights including Microsoft and Yahoo came forward to challenge the settlement of Google books. Google co-founder Sergey Brin addressed criticisms of the settlement in a lengthy editorial.

the traditional advertising is going down while the rise of online advertising is booming.

Web ads' reseesion is boucing back after last month.

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US government agrees to relinquish some of its control over the internet.

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This is an essay talking about DRM systems, which can give you an overview of the lock up system.

A reflection on the purpose of copyright related to the Google Books Settlement.

Electronic is going to be the center of the universe, so HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide decided to publish old books into digital form.

Saatchi and Saatchi suggest that the changes brought about by technology and the 'new' business model is merely structured to serve "the twin gods of the publishing world", namely advertisers and consumers, and as a result traditional 'media' are going to lose out.

Circulation at newspapers shrank at an accelerated pace in the past six months, driven in part by stiff price increases imposed by publishers scrambling to offset rapidly eroding advertising sales. Average daily circulation at 379 U.S. newspapers plunged 10.6 percent in the April-September period from the same six-month stretch last year, according to figures released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Cybercriminals are targeting social networks. The Internet Crime Complaint Center received more than 72,000 complaints about Internet fraud in 2008.

Is the ebook market becoming saturated? As more companies invest in digital technologies, there seems to be growing concern that returns won't be what initially expected.