This website is about a machine called the Espresso Book Machine. The machine is made to allow people to purchase books that are actually out of print. It is currently in many locations, and the website states that there are more to come! (Didn't realize that it had actually already been bookmarked, but oh well. It's a good site to check out, as Kyle pointed out to me.)

Essentially, authors who published their works on the Kindle may have assumed that Digital Rights Management (DRM) was automatically enabled for their work. The option for DRM or no DRM has always been there, however, it seems Amazon has made it easier for Digital Text Platform publishers to choose one or the other.

This discusses the fact that the "first sale" doctrine that applies to physical books, CDs, and DVDs does not apply to the e-books that people "buy" on the Kindle. Basically, it states that you cannot really allow someone to borrow your "books" on the Kindle and if you wanted to sell your "book" you would have to sell the "physical media where the 'original' download is stored."

This article talks about the sales of the Kindle and the decline in traffic at the BookExpo America compared to previous years. It discusses the fact that publishing executives have worries concerning the development of this technology and at the same time mentions that the device has also gained fans in the publishing industry.

Amazon is competing to be the first and only choice all authors might choose to sell their books as e-books as well. They will up the royalty for authors and publishers from 35 percent to 70 percent.

Cory Doctorow discusses the Authors Guild's claim concerning copywright infringement. They claimed that "only the rightsholder could authorise an 'audiobook adaptation' of a book." The article deals with the Kindle's text-to-speech synthesiser.

An online article by Nicholson Baker about the Kindle and whether or not it is really an improvement on the book. He talks about his own experience after purchasing the Kindle and comments on other people's remarks about the device.

This website allows you to do anything related to the Kindle from buying one to simply learning everything there is to know about the Kindle. It not only has a list of the multiple books available to buy and upload on to your new Kindle, but a list of newspapers, magazines, blogs and news feeds as well.

This website could possibly be significant because it is a research guide for technical and multimedia writing. It points out varying individual journals that deal with the subject.

This website seems to be significant in that its purpose is to educate people on how to write technical material and about the history of multimedia itself. In addition, if one wishes to, it has a section to test your knowledge on the subject.