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"Hi semble s'inspirer de l'incroyable succès d'Instagram, en y injectant un peu de Foursquare, un brin de Twitter, et une petite dose de Blogger, le tout à la sauce… Medium. Ce que dit Craig Mod (son créateur) : "Hi est une site web co-fondé avec Chris Palmieri qui vous permet d'associer un court texte et une photographie à un lieu. Nous appelons cela un moment." Il s'agit d'un "networked storytelling tool", un outil de narration connecté. Quoi de neuf ? Facebook n'est-il pas déjà un outil de narration connecté ? Sans doute un peu, mais le "storytelling" n'est pas l'idée principale de Facebook. Non, Hi est plus proche de Medium, parce que les "moments" qui le composent sont regroupés par lieux, et que la chronologie et les personnes (amis, followers ) y jouent un rôle plus faible."

"When John Ashbery, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, first learned that the digital editions of his poetry looked nothing like the print version, he was stunned. There were no line breaks, and the stanzas had been jammed together into a block of text that looked like prose. The careful architecture of his poems had been leveled. He complained to his publisher, Ecco, and those four e-books were immediately withdrawn. That was three years ago, and digital publishing has evolved a lot since then. Publishers can now create e-books that better preserve a poet's meticulous formatting. So when Open Road Media, a digital publishing company, approached Mr. Ashbery about creating electronic versions of his books, he decided to give it another chance."

"This week, ebook lovers got yet another reminder of why DRM (Digital Rights Management) is terrible for ebooks. While attending a library conference in Singapore, Jim O'Donnell lost access to the titles in his Google Play Books app. Apparently, the app detected that he was in a country where Google Books aren't available and subsequently denied him access to his books. Stories like this crop up every now and then, each time highlighting some crazy ebook restriction or policy that most people aren't even aware of. The way things are set up, you kind of need to protect the digital books you buy from the companies that sell them. There are a growing number of ways and reasons why Amazon, Google, or a book publisher might strip you of your digital library. The best way to protect yourself is to break the DRM on your ebooks for the purpose of keeping a local, personal backup."

"Random House U.S. is teaming up with Flipboard, a social media-driven platform for curated content, to produce custom digital magazines for two of its authors: Maragaret Atwood and George R.R. Martin. The Atwood magazine will be devoted to her new novel, MaddAdam, while Martin's magazine will be centered on his Song of Ice and Fire series. Both magazines will feature interviews, inside information and other material designed to attract their fans."

"Federal Judge Jed Rakoff has dismissed a lawsuit filed by independent booksellers against Amazon and the big six publishers that alleged a murky conspiracy to restrain trade via Amazon's use of proprietary DRM in its Kindle e-reading platform. In his 18-page decision tossing the suit, Rakoff found that the booksellers' core claim-that the publishers had engaged in a conspiracy with Amazon to keep rivals from selling e-books on the Kindle-had no supporting evidence, and no plausible motive."

"Read is a free iOS app to read EPUB that really helps pro-readers remember more from their readings. Read is our new app to better understand how mobile reading should feel. Our previous iterations, Addr, an iPad app, uses collective annotations as an alternative reading workflow. Libr, a side-project, works like a P2P network and enables readers to share their ebooks within the app. The startup has its roots in Thomas' research on e-reading. His expertise drives our startup on a daily basis. Today, we think ourselves as a studio iterating around one core question: how to read on a screen? We somehow believed in "mobile first" before reading Ben Evans' blog. Our job is to foresee what readers will look for when reading on a pocket computer in the near future."

"Un volet de la loi Consommation concernant l'obsolescence programmée (pour la durée de disponibilité des pièces détachées) est entré en vigueur le 1er mars 2015. Ceci concerne les produits hi-fi ou électroménagers dont les produits numériques (ordinateurs, smartphones, tablettes, téléphones portables…). Durée des pièces de disponibilité des pièces détachées Le décret n° 2014-1482 du 9 décembre 2014 relatif aux obligations d'information et de fourniture concernant les pièces détachées indispensables à l'utilisation d'un bien est effectif à partir du 1er mars 2015. Ce décret précise les modalités d'application de la mesure de la loi Consommation du 17 mars 2014 prévoyant que soit portée à la connaissance du consommateur la durée de disponibilité des pièces détachées essentielles aux biens qu'il achète. Ainsi, lorsqu'il est informé par le fabricant ou l'importateur de cette durée de disponibilité, le distributeur du produit devra en informer le consommateur de manière visible et lisible sur tout document commercial et préalablement à la vente, de même que sur le bon de commande ou tout document accompagnant la vente. Cette information pourra consister en une durée ou une date limite de disponibilité des pièces. Le fabricant sera tenu de fournir aux vendeurs ou aux réparateurs les pièces détachées nécessaires à la réparation des produits, dans un délai de deux mois."