Creativity isn't one size fits all, so why is copyright? - 0 views
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arnie Grossblatt on 26 Mar 12Thoughts on copyright law from the IP counsel at Google - Bill Patry.
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Top 10 Pirated eBooks at The Pirate Bay - 0 views
Penguin withholds new e-books from UK library suppliers - 1 views
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This follows a decision by Penguin US to withhold new e-book titles from libraries.
With a Little Help: New York, Meet Silicon Valley - 3 views
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Cory Doctorow on what publishers can learn from Silicon Valley.
Viacom v Internet: round one to Internet - 2 views
Nearly 1,000 additional O'Reilly and Microsoft Press ebooks now available in Kindle Store - Tools of Change for Publishing - 3 views
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The number of tech titles available on Kindle gets a big bump. But the market is still broken in many respects. Read about the difficulties in formatting for Kindle and the inability to get publisher updates through Amazon (or Apple for EPUB books).
Ebook restrictions leave libraries facing virtual lockout | Books | The Guardian - 1 views
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just announced a clampdown, informing libraries they may have to stop allowing users to download ebooks remotely and instead require them to come to the library premises, just as they do to get traditional print books – arguably defeating the object of the e-reading concept.
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Another example of how DRM and ebooks are broken...
Why Won't Universal Music Let You See The 20/20 Report From 1980 About How The Music Industry Is Dying? - 2 views
In Praise of Copying, CC-licensed book from Harvard Uni Press - Boing Boing - 0 views
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Although generosity is a wonderful thing, this isn't especially intended as a utopian gesture towards a world in which everything is free. It's recognition of the way in which copies of texts circulate today, a circulation in which the physical object known as the book that is for sale in the marketplace has an important but hardly exclusive role. A PDF of a book is not an illegitimate copy of a legitimate original but participates in other kinds of circulation that have long flourished around the book-commodity: the library book; the photocopy or hand-written copy; the book browsed, borrowed or shared.
David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists - and Megastars - 0 views
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How to survive in the era of free content, pirated content. Written for musicians but contains lessons for publishers as well.
What If the Kindle Succeeds? | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 0 views
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If ebook readers succeed, will publishers be smarter than the music industry in the face of digitization and the web? Some guidelines on how publishers can avoid some of the mistakes of the music industry peers
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Thanks for posting this, Arnie. I've been watching the rise of the Kindle for a while. It popped up at various publishing conferences a few years back. As a reader, it does have some appealing qualities. But, the product is too expensive to go mainstream just yet, in my view. I'd be nervous to schlep a $400 device on international trips with multiple time zones/hotel stays. It's okay if I accidentally leave a paperback behind in a plane or forget it in my hotel room, but you'd have to be careful with a Kindle--it sort of changes my perception of reading materials when I'm traveling.
A Limit on Lending E-Books - 3 views
Google's YouTube policy for Android users is copyright extremism | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 1 views
Go the Fuck to Sleep Goes Viral - 3 views
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A NSFW childrens' book is #1 on Amazon, despite (or because of) being freely available in PDF.
Could Pirates Be Your Friends? - 1 views
Kindle Books for Public Libraries - 2 views
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Amazon announces that 11,000 libraries are now set for loaning Kindle e-books to patrons. How much of library budgets will go to support a reading format that only the relatively well-off can use?
xkcd: Sharing - 5 views
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