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New e-store for Australian books | The Australian - 1 views

www.theaustralian.com.au/...story-e6frg996-1225868741701 piracy ebooks
shared by yunju wang on 19 May 10 - Cached
  • Most of the available e-books will be free, out-of-copyright titles, according to Redgroup managing director Dave Fenlon.
  • We are all about making eBooks available no matter how customers want to read them," Mr Fenlon said.
  • yunju wang on 19 May 10
     
    It is a trend after launched of ipad in US, more than 100 local pubclishers have signed up to supply ebooks to ebook store which opereates the Borders Australia and Angus & Robertson book chains. "Most of the available e-books will be free, out-of-copyright titles, according to Redgroup managing director Dave Fenlon." when things like this happen how do we draw a line between those with copyright and those without?
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Is iPad supercharging e-book piracy? | Fully Equipped - CNET Reviews - 0 views

reviews.cnet.com/8301-18438_7-20005008-82.html internet governance privacy ipad
shared by yunju wang on 18 May 10 - Cached
  • he Kindle still has its own platform and file format for e-books, but most of the big e-reader players, including Apple, have now adopted the ePub format.
  • that claims that "book piracy costs the industry nearly $3 billion, or over 10 percent of total revenue." Most people think that figure is very inflated, but the point is there are some big numbers involved and they only stand to get bigger as powerful e-readers like the iPad become more prevalent and tempt people to acquire content without paying for it because, well, too many of them have become used to it.
  • yunju wang on 18 May 10
     
    The popularity of ipad has raised book piracy issue. Since dowloading books is relatively fast than downloading a movie or a song, publishers are seriously facing a problem of online piracy.
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The iPad and the e-Book Revolution - 0 views

www.brisbanetimes.com.au/...en-near-you-20100323-qtrh.html e-book ipad digital publishing
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  • Tiana Stefanic on 24 Mar 10
     
    Extensive report about the potential challenges to be faced by publishers as they adapt to the predicted 'e-book revolution'
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continuing around the world - India looks to be doing away with PIRs - 0 views

www.business-standard.com/...396588 Internet governance #ARIN6902 copyright
shared by Stephanie Hawkins on 01 Jun 10 - No Cached
  • Stephanie Hawkins on 01 Jun 10
     
    PIR = parallel importation restriction. Basically, every country around the world (except a choice few like Hong Kong and New Zealand who did away with it) is a 'territory' so far as publishing is concerned. If you publish a book in Australia, you can't just ship it over to the US and sell it wholesale to the bookstores over there. No, you have to find a publisher over there who will by the licence to reproduce the book for that market. India looks to be thinking about doing away with that. On the plus side for consumers, they'll have access to the entire Amazon e-book range - Hooray! Publishers won't be so happy, as they will lose out on royalties from selling 'local' e-books (hardcopy books will also be affected, but that's not at issue here). Of course, it doesn't work both ways - India will still have to go through the usual channels to publish overseas. the US protects its own. Australia debated this last year, you may remember. Woolworths and Coles were all for PIR abolition, but not really anyone else was ...

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EDITORIAL: TSA to download your iTunes? - Washington Times - 0 views

www.washingtontimes.com/...tsa-to-download-your-itunes internet governance #ARIN6902 Government governance tsa
shared by César Albarrán Torres on 18 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Federal security workers are now free to snoop through more than just your undergarments and luggage at the airport. Thanks to a recent series of federal court decisions, the digital belongings of international fliers are now open for inspection. This includes reading the saved e-mails on your laptop, scanning the address book on your iPhone or BlackBerry and closely scrutinizing your digital vacation snapshots.
  • In other words, simply because a U.S. citizen is returning from a foreign country by airplane, the government thinks it is a "routine" matter to download sensitive business documents, personal correspondence and any other information that might be saved on a laptop or cell phone, regardless of whether there is any reason to suspect the traveler of a crime.
  • César Albarrán Torres on 18 Apr 10
     
    Creepy: airport checks might now include checking the files in your laptop. 
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