eBabel

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• PC World: E-book piracy publishing industry’s ‘next epic saga’

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  PC World has an article looking at the problem of e-book piracy . And while this article does get a few things wrong (such as believing e-book piracy started relatively recently), it does echo a few of the things that have been noted here on TeleRead. It begins by discussing the “growth” of e-book piracy coming ...
  3 days ago

• Register knocks Kindle for lack of ePub, watered-down U.K. model

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  The Register’s verdict on the U.K. Kindle is mixed: “A competent e-book reader that lets you buy and download your books wirelessly. But you won’t get the same level of service that US users get and format support is limited.” Alas, the U.K. Kindle lacks a Web browser, so useful for downloads from mobile-hip ...
  6 days ago

• Mark Coker: E-books may be moving to the cloud

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  BusinessWeek has a two-page article talking with Mark Coker from Smashwords, about how e-books may be migrating to “the cloud”—that is, to be hosted on remote servers and accessed at need rather than stored on your computer. ( Speak of the devil. ) The article touches on some of the stories covered by ...
  1 week ago

• Stanza’s first-rate upgrade to Version 2—plus easier recovery of “lost” books, via a Java tool

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  The Stanza e-reader for the iPhone and iPod Touch remains a big favorite of mine. Now it’s better than ever—with the Version 2 release and easier recovery of “lost” books from the vagaries of OS upgrades. I remain a Stanza cheerleader, because it lets me display books exactly the way I want to see them. ...
  1 week ago

• Barnes & Noble quietly changes e-book format, neglects to tell consumers

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  I ran across a post in the baen.EBookReader forum of Baen’s Bar from someone who said he got “format bait-and-switched” by Barnes and Noble. He said he ordered the e-book of D. D. Barant’s Dying Bites expecting to get the eReader format, which is what they had last time he shopped there. Instead, he  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mobi/Kindle format now available for most of Internet Archive books

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  Most Internet Archive’s 1.8 million books are now available in Mobipocket / Kindle format, and Gary Price of Resource Shelf has the details here . The Archive offers one of the world’s most largest e-book collections, so this is awesome news. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news.
  2 weeks ago

• Opening up PG site for Kindles AND other mobiles: Help Webmaster with donated gizmos or money to buy them

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  For years, Project Gutenberg ’s people debated whether to offer books in ePub, the standard format. Then Marcello Perathoner , the PG Webmaster, just made ePub happen —as one of a bunch for formats created through a conversion scheme. Now Marcelo has a new goal: make the PG site easier to use for Kindles, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Should parents control their kids e-reading? And if so, should the Kindle e-store and others include ‘child’ accounts?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  Should parents restrict their children’s e-reading? And if so, should the Kindle e-bookstore and others include restricted “child” accounts, so Junior can’t read the same saucy best-seller that his father is? Nonparents, not just people with kids, should care about these issues. If Kindle-type stores cannot ...
  3 weeks ago

• E-reader battery time to get boost from PRAM memory tech?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  The battery time of some mobile phones could eventually go up by more than 20 percent thanks to the lower power requirements of PRAM (used as a substitute for flash memory ). In fact, Samsung is among the companies hoping to make smart phones with the new tech. The technology also writes and rewrites the ...
  3 weeks ago

• My e-book Thanksgiving list

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! A number of other sites are doing Thanksgiving lists ( Ars Technica , Wired , another Wired , and Wired again on things not to be thankful for ), and I thought I would assay one of my own. Of course, we all know that we have a lot more to be thankful for than just ...
  4 weeks ago

• A walk ‘with’ Molly Ivins: Too bad she isn’t alive to tell the Authors Guild off about its war on text to speech

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  The late Molly Ivins raised a Texas-sized amount of hell in her time over political and social issues even though she grew up among members of the Lone Star elite and knew the Bush family. Now she is the topic of a new biography, Molly Ivins, A Rebel Life , by Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith . Later ...
  5 weeks ago

• About that ePub logo, Mike: A friendly jog for the IDPF

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  Ugh, it’s time to broach the topic again. Why the devil doesn’t the International Digital Publishing Forum have an ePub logo so its format standard can compete better against the Kindle’s? The IDPF said it would unveil a contest for the best logo design, but I haven’t seen a follow-up. I’ve emailed ...
  5 weeks ago

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