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"'Learning Perspectives:2010' is an open-source eBook by The MASIE Center and Learning 2010."

Long list of links to ebook sites, background, subjects, hardware ...

Sigil is an open source, free, multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.

Kobo eReader and eBook store

Interesting article by a librarian on the role of ebooks.

While DRM has largely been defeated in downloaded music, it is a growing problem in the area of ebooks, where people have had their books restricted so they can't freely loan, re-sell or donate them, read them without being tracked, or move them to a new device without re-purchasing all of them. They've even had their ebooks deleted by companies without their permission. It continues to be a major issue in the area of movies and video too. Join us in working to eliminate DRM! This is the fourth year we've run the international Day Against DRM. In previous years we've focused on music, held events at the Boston Public Library and more! On May 4th, the Defective by Design DRM Elimination Crew will of course be running an event in Boston. But for this day to send a strong message against DRM, we need people all over the world to join us and hold their own events! As well as attending or running events, you can join other activists in blogging about DRM, putting up banners on your Web sites and blogs, talking about DRM on your social networks and more.

Rich, interactive ebooks from the OU - and free too!

Free ebooks.

Interesting specification comparison between 3 Sony eBooks and 3 Kindles. Think of the comparisons that they didn't make but still think the Sony easily trumps the Kindle.

Hey all, this could be of interest. A huge bunch of eBooks shared in an MSDN post this week so is legit. A lot of them are product specific rather than technology focused but still a good looking resource

"Booktype is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any ereader within minutes. Create books on your own or with others via an easy-to-use web interface. Build a community around your content with social tools and use the reach of mobile, tablet and ebook technology to engage new audiences."

A technical landscaping pilot on Open Access publishing of scholarly monographs to multiple devices - ebook, tablet, mobile.

(Note - free ebook version) - At the end of the twentieth century, intellectual property rights collided with everyday life. Expansive copyright laws and digital rights management technologies sought to shut down new forms of copying and remixing made possible by the Internet. International laws expanding patent rights threatened the lives of millions of people around the world living with HIV/AIDS by limiting their access to cheap generic medicines. For decades, governments have tightened the grip of intellectual property law at the bidding of information industries; but recently, groups have emerged around the world to challenge this wave of enclosure with a new counter-politics of "access to knowledge" or "A2K." They include software programmers who took to the streets to defeat software patents in Europe, AIDS activists who forced multinational pharmaceutical companies to permit copies of their medicines to be sold in poor countries, subsistence farmers defending their rights to food security or access to agricultural biotechnology, and college students who created a new "free culture" movement to defend the digital commons. Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property maps this emerging field of activism as a series of historical moments, strategies, and concepts. It gathers some of the most important thinkers and advocates in the field to make the stakes and strategies at play in this new domain visible and the terms of intellectual property law intelligible in their political implications around the world. A Creative Commons edition of this work will be freely available online.

Apple to move into providing ebook creation tools?

2nd edition The Theory and Practice of Online Learning published 2008 edited by Terry Anderson download page for the entire eBook or can download individual chapters as preferred

From the people that brought you Zotero, a wordpress plugin that transforms online content into an ebook.

"Here's the lowdown so you can make the best choices in which eBook app software to use on your iPad."

Poster summary of figures for books and ebooks.

"Another market where eBooks have a lot of potential is education... Surprisingly though, it's not iPad and eReaders that are driving the eTextbook market - but PCs and netbooks." *Be sure to read the comments too.*

Links to sites with free NZ ebooks