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"Application Cache is-as Jake so infamously described-not a good API. It was specced and shipped before developers had a chance to figure out what they really needed, and so AppCache turned out to be frustrating at best and downright dangerous in some situations. Its over-zealous caching combined with its byzantine cache invalidation ensured it was never going to become a mainstream technology."

"Certains ont théorisé le fait qu'Internet allait ouvrir l'ère de la diversité culturelle: exit le mainstream, vive la «longue traîne». Anita Elberse, professeure à Harvard, montre dans un brillant essai, fruit d'une dizaine d'années de recherche sur le marché du divertissement et de la culture, «Blockbusters» qu'il s'agit là d'une vision un brin optimiste. Selon elle, preuves à l'appui, plus que jamais à l'heure d'Internet ce sont les blockbusters qui font la loi. "

"Authors are upset with Amazon. Again. For much of the last year, mainstream novelists were furious that Amazon was discouraging the sale of some titles in its confrontation with the publisher Hachette over e-books. Now self-published writers, who owe much of their audience to the retailer's publishing platform, are unhappy. One problem is too much competition. But a new complaint is about Kindle Unlimited, a new Amazon subscription service that offers access to 700,000 books - both self-published and traditionally published - for $9.99 a month. It may bring in readers, but the writers say they earn less. And in interviews and online forums, they have voiced their complaints. "Six months ago people were quitting their day job, convinced they could make a career out of writing," said Bob Mayer, an e-book consultant and publisher who has written 50 books. "Now people are having to go back to that job or are scraping to get by. That's how quickly things have changed.""

"On Monday March 23rd, an all-day series of panel talks [1] took place at the Paris Book Fair, to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by accessible publishing in France. This covered a wide range of topics such as: regulatory issues (copyright exceptions), business models, production practices and end-user perspectives. The event was organised by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, who actively engage in support of open, interoperable standards. I'm Daniel Weck - I work with the DAISY Consortium and I act as the lead developer in the Readium SDK project. I spoke [2] about converging technologies and the synergy between mainstream and specialised publishing sectors. Other notable speakers included Hadrien Gardeur (Feedbooks, Readium Foundation board member), Luc Audrain (Hachette, IDPF member), Virginie Clayssen (Editis, National Syndicate of Publishers), and Fernando Pinto Da Silva (Association Valentin Hauy, President of the French DAISY Consortium)."

"Tout arrive: après plusieurs années d'existence, voilà que Publie.net voit un de ses auteurs cité dans le supplément littéraire du Monde (daté du vendredi 7 septembre). Il me semble qu'un tel événement mérité d'être signalé, même s'il peut paraître minuscule au néophyte: que celui-ci tente pourtant de se représenter une littérature vivante se développant depuis quinze ans sur le Web, et qui n'a jamais droit de cité dans la presse littéraire des vieux barons de la Critique."