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• Sony, B&N better on DRM than Amazon—but still a long way from perfection

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 663
  Sony, B&N promise to rekindle rights for book owners is the headline on a Boing Boing posting from Rob Beschizza. Without doubt, Sony’s Steve Haber and Adobe’s Bill McCoy have been more sensible on DRM than Amazon, with more flexible approaches. I applaud their efforts. But we’re a long way from ...
  7 hours ago

• DRMfree publishers: Help Liza Daly expand her list

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 663
  Liza Daly , a TeleRead contributor, has compiled a list of DRM free publishers such as O’Reilly and Drollerie . Help out “Liza’s List,” as I’ll call it—a kind of a Good Housekeeping seal of approval in the technical sense. Send her names to add. The definition of DRMfree can be tricky. I’d ...
  3 days ago

• Free web-based ePub validator

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 663
  Threepress Consulting has a free, web-based ePub validator. You upload a DRM-free document and validate it against epubcheck 1.0.3 and epubprefilight 0.1.0. After it’s validated you can use thier Bookworm ePub reader to check it. Epubpreflight has been updated and now checks or content files that are empty or ...
  1 week ago

• Lulu Adds E-Books

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 118
  In addition to publishing printed books in any number of sizes and bindings, Lulu has always included a PDF download option. Now, you can also offer your publications in e-book format which offers both multi-device support (iPhone using Stanza, Sony, PC, Mac and more) and digital rights management (copy protection). ...
  1 week ago

• Lulu now sells EPUB

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 663
  Received this email from Paul Durrant and it should be of interest to anyone who is self-publishing: The subject is the news. Lulu now allows upload and sale of ePubs. DRM is optional. Lulu have revised their prices. Lulu used to sell PDFs on a straight 20% margin. Lulu now sell both PDFs and ePubs on the basis of ...
  1 week ago

• EPUB reader add-on for Firefox

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 663
  I received the following email from Michael Volz. I’m on a Mac and the add-on won’t install in the Mac version of Firefox so I can’t report how it works. If anyone tries it, let us know. It’s available here . Hello Paul, I’m contacting you, because I’d like to inform you about a new free Firefox addon ...
  2 weeks ago

• Can eBooks Provide a Competitive Edge to Private Schools?

  
  epubBooks Blog — Authority: 99
  The private education sector in the UK is being forced to become more competitive in  the current economic climate. We are not talking about the Etons and Harrows who will always have waiting lists but the lesser know schools which take in pupils with average ability and learning difficulties with the aim to have ...
  2 weeks ago

• WordPlayer Art of War, top free e-book app in the Android Market, can read ePub: Other apps discussed

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 663
  E-books, alas, are not among the most popular apps in the Android Market . Let’s hope that changes. Get ready for an Android invasion over the next year—-not just phones with that operating system, but also tablets and other devices. Android has attracted its share of gung-ho fans , with Windows Mobile ...
  2 weeks ago

• Content on E-Books; hot topic at this week’s Frankfurt Book Fair

  
  Adobe, Quark and Publisher Data Conversion and Quality Control Software Tools| Markzware — Authority: 122
  Electronic books may transform not only the publishing industry, but the very definition of what constitutes a book. E-books -- whether read on an iPhone, a Kindle or a laptop -- are a hot topic at this weeks Frankfurt Book Fair.
  2 weeks ago

• Adobe e-book exec Bill McCoy on DRM and open formats

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 663
  I remain opposed to DRMed e-books, at least for nonlibrary purposes; but in the interest of fairness, here are thoughts from Adobe’s Bill McCoy , adapted with permission from a Reading 2.0 post. Civil replies, please. I myself liked a blog post Bill did where he personally championed social DRM . Let’s hope ...
  2 weeks ago

• ePub is kickstarting the e-book biz: 1.6 million ePub titles available from the Internet Archive alone

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 663
  ePub and the group behind it can vex me— a lot . I agree with Paul on such matters as the long-delayed ePub logo. Look, IDPF , where’s the logo contest you promised to announce at Frankfurt? Furthermore, I hate the way proprietary DRM de -standardizes ePub or any other format. What a laugh when Sony brags ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why you probably should NOT buy an e-reader this year

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 663
  Jane at Dear Author , the romance novel site, offers an excellent guide to the current crop of e-books —-but warns that shoppers might do well to wait until next year when better technology shows up. I agree despite the existence of spiffy new gizmos like Barnes and Noble’s Nook , shown here. The reason ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kindle needs to do ePub, says Gartner analyst

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 663
  “The next move in the ereader space belongs to Amazon. That sound you heard was the air being let out of the Kindle’s tires. Amazon is now forced with the decision to be pragmatic and support the open .epub format or risk being locked out of the market.” – Allen Weiner, Gartner analyst , reacting to Nook ...
  3 weeks ago

• E-Book Ecosystem Should Look to Open Source

  
  OStatic blogs — Authority: 645
  Although its tough to get on a plane or a train these days without seeing someone reading an e-book, typically using Amazons Kindle, e-book readers were hardly an overnight success. I remember seeing them 10 years ago, maybe a few years before that. It took a long time for design, capacity, book delivery ...
  3 weeks ago

• E-Book Ecosystem Should Look to Open Source

  
  OStatic blogs — Authority: 645
  Although its tough to get on a plane or a train these days without seeing someone reading an e-book, typically using Amazons Kindle, e-book readers were hardly an overnight success. I remember seeing them 10 years ago, maybe a few years before that. It took a long time for design, capacity, book delivery ...
  3 weeks ago

• B&N’s DRMed ePub comes with compatibility gotchas for now—plus the possibility of social DRM

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 663
  Will you be able to buy e-book files from B&N and read them on your Sony Reader, just as your friends can read them on their B&N Nook e-readers? This depends on Sony and the others updating their Adobe-supplied firmware for their dedicated e-readers. So there are gotcha indeed (yes, I’ve revised this post). ...
  3 weeks ago

• ‘Barnes & Noble adopts open EPUB eBook Format, PDF and Adobe Content Server’

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 663
  Press release from Adobe follows. Please note the quotes in the headline. DRMed ePub is not "open." And now the big question: Will Amazon do ePub soon, now that B&N has moved forward? And with Adobe DRM or an Amazon flavor?   For info on the Nook e-reader from B&N, see the basics plus Paul Biba’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• iPhone reader from Ukraine fails to awe TeleRead commenter Dave Law and me

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 663
  Dave Law and I both plunked down $3.99 to try out Readdle ’s BookReader 1.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Just how would BookReader compare with free rivals such as Stanza ? Well, for now, the others haven’t much to worry about. Both Dave and I were disappointed, for example, by the limited font choices ...
  3 weeks ago

• Silly Kindle gush from Esquire critic—plus, the REAL glories of the K-2

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 663
  Reason #999,667,322 to show healthy skepticism toward the mainstream media: “ On Monday, the Kindle 2 will become the first e-reader available globally. The only other events as important to the history of the book are the birth of print and the shift from the scroll to bound pages. The e-reader, now widely ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kindle exclusive for Russia sought by phone company

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 663
  The Kindle in Russia will cost 47 percent more than Americans pay for the same hardware—so calculates Kindle Review. But what if the MTS phone company in Russia can negotiate a Kindle exclusive and import the machines directly from the Far East? In fact, negotiations are underway now. Kindle books in Russian are ...
  4 weeks ago

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