Sony's Electronic Paper eBook Bound For Greatness
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Sony's Paper Blu-Ray Discs
Sony's Paper Blu-Ray Discs
04/15/2004 11:42 AMJOEL JOHNSON -- Sony has announced a 25GB Blu-ray disc made with 51
percent paper, making it easy to print directly on the disc and shred
with household scissors for disposal. While the discs are more
environmentally friendly, simply because they use an easily renewable
resource, it isn't entirely clear...
Six games from Electronic Arts will be
available for Sony's PlayStation
Portable:
Six games from Electronic Arts will be
available for Sony's PlayStation
Portable:
01/07/2005 04:30 AMMercurynews.com - Thu Jan 6, 04:10 pm GMT
Electronic paper moves a step closer
Electronic paper moves a step closer
04/23/2004 01:48 PMvnunet.com Apr 23 2004 4:41PM GMT
Philips to mass produce electronic paper
displays
Philips to mass produce electronic paper
displays
01/27/2004 01:18 AMA few months ago Philips revealed that they we working on electronic
paper, and now it looks like they're close to mass-producing them,
with the...
Demand Grows to Require Paper Trails for
Electronic Votes
Demand Grows to Require Paper Trails for
Electronic Votes
05/22/2004 02:14 PMA coalition of computer scientists, voter groups and state officials
is trying to force the makers of electronic voting machines to equip
those machines with voter-verifiable paper trails.
Sony Launches First Commercial
Electronic Paper Display Reader
Sony Launches First Commercial
Electronic Paper Display Reader
04/23/2004 02:55 AMEbook Rebranding - The New Ebook
Marketing Power?
Ebook Rebranding - The New Ebook
Marketing Power?
05/24/2004 01:30 AMWebDevInfo May 24 2004 5:50AM GMT
CompAmerica Announces Low Cost,
Lightweight Mobil Digital Electronic
Paper and Pen pad with memory and PC
interface- DigiMemo A5000
CompAmerica Announces Low Cost,
Lightweight Mobil Digital Electronic
Paper and Pen pad with memory and PC
interface- DigiMemo A5000
09/13/2004 02:58 AMAccording to CompAmerica, one doesn't need to carry a laptop when
attending a meeting, class, sales meeting, White House Press Room
session or Court anymore. Take notes in handwriting on the "A5" sized
touch screen of CompAmerica's new DigiMemo. About 1 pound and 10-15mm
thick, it runs for as much 120 hours and costs 10% what most laptops
do. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]
The way to best-in-class greatness
The way to best-in-class greatness
03/08/2004 11:18 PMThree Best in Class award winners from among this year's Premier 100
IT Leaders offered tips today for moving complex projects forward in a
very short time frame.
The price of greatness is
responsibility.
The price of greatness is
responsibility.
12/17/2004 06:41 PM
"There is no excuse for superior
authority not choosing the most suitable agents for particular duties,
and not removing unsuitable agents from particular duties." With
all the talk of
empires and
resignations, a reflection to history turns up a remarkable
story about an
al
ready remarkable man:
A tense time in British India came to a head when
General
Reginald Dyer's brigade opened fire on an unarmed crowd assembled
in
Amritsar with
machine guns, killing 379 and wounding over 1500. Command wanted to
relieve him of duty, but patriotic (and imperialist) fervor at home
led to a parliamentary debate which was expected to repudiate this
decision and honor him. Enter War Secretary Winston Churchill who
defended the Government
so
eloquently that the minds and hearts of the entire deliberative body
were turned. MoLinux: From Progeny To Greatness
MoLinux: From Progeny To Greatness
12/24/2004 12:44 PMSlashdot Dec 23 2004 5:56PM GMT
ericisgreat- your source for greatness
online
ericisgreat- your source for greatness
online
04/17/2004 04:47 AMThe Peeps challenge: 100 Peeps! .. Can you eat 100 peeps? .. 15
minutes of fame ..
Ericisgreat
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UK Open Source Consortium bids for
greatness
UK Open Source Consortium bids for
greatness
03/14/2005 04:04 PMThe United Kingdom's Open Source Consortium is now offering a free
help service for individuals and businesses in Western Europe. It's
aimed at entities interested in learning more about open source
technology, but unsure how to go about it. Mark Taylor, the executive
director of the consortium, says he hopes that the consortium will
become the "first port of call" for anyone seeking an introduction to
open source technology.
NFL-Brady Leads Patriots to Super Bowl
Greatness (Reuters)
NFL-Brady Leads Patriots to Super Bowl
Greatness (Reuters)
02/07/2005 01:13 AMReuters - Tom Brady threw two
touchdown passes to lead the New England Patriots to a 24-21
win over the Philadelphia Eagles and their third Super Bowl
title in four years Sunday, cementing a place among the NFL's
great teams.
EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation and
Stanford Law Clinic Sue Electronic
Voting Company
EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation and
Stanford Law Clinic Sue Electronic
Voting Company
11/04/2003 06:26 AMElectronic Frontier Foundation and Stanford Law Clinic Sue Electronic
Voting Company .. press release .. EFF announced .. Here's
why
eff.org/Legal/ISP_liability/OPG_v_Diebold/20031103_eff_pr.php
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A4 Paper / International Standard Paper
Sizes
A4 Paper / International Standard Paper
Sizes
05/15/2004 09:47 PM§ª§†§‡§Š ¨Š† §„…„„Š §†§‡ ‡§Š ƒ§ ..
[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html] .. International
Standard Paper Sizes .. ¨Œ† §Œ†¬§ .. Fascinating
article
cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html
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REMEDI Electronic Commerce Group Assists
Clients With Three Newly Formalized
Services to Advance Electronic Commerce
Capabilities
REMEDI Electronic Commerce Group Assists
Clients With Three Newly Formalized
Services to Advance Electronic Commerce
Capabilities
03/14/2005 04:09 PMREMEDI Electronic Commerce Group formalizes Strategic Consulting,
REMEDI Outsource, and REMEDI Cosource in its line of offerings. [PRWEB
Mar 9, 2005]
My new Entourage Ebook
My new Entourage Ebook
06/13/2004 07:57 PMI'm pleased to announce the publication and availability for sale of
my new ebook, Take Control of What's New in...
Deleting an Ebook
Deleting an Ebook
02/17/2004 06:32 PMJust In Tokyo ebook
Just In Tokyo ebook
03/06/2004 01:53 AMThis week's featured content is the ebook Just
In Tokyo. It's a offbeat guidebook to Tokyo written by web veteran
Justin Hall and is now available for download under a Creative Commons
license. First printed a few years go, it's now out of print and
Justin is asking for voluntary donations if you like the downloadable
book.
Did you know that the Frankfurt eBook
Did you know that the Frankfurt eBook
08/28/2004 02:47 PMTechTree Aug 28 2004 5:39PM GMT
Vive la ebook!
Vive la ebook!
07/31/2004 05:02 PMTechTree Jul 31 2004 8:40PM GMT
What Will It Take For eBook Adoption?
What Will It Take For eBook Adoption?
07/29/2004 10:24 AMFrankfurt eBook Awards
Frankfurt eBook Awards
08/28/2004 02:47 PMTechTree Aug 28 2004 5:39PM GMT
Ebook column that gets it all wrong
Ebook column that gets it all wrong
07/29/2004 02:52 AMGizmodo has a new column called "Feature Creep," and they kicked it
off with an editorial about the future of ebooks that is striking for
its complete disregard for the actual marketplace experiences with
ebooks. It's full of hoary chestnuts about ebooks that have been
emptily mouthed for 10 years ("Call it digital paper or electronic
ink, it's the future of eBooks.") and aside from the occassional iPod
comparison, there's hardly a paragraph in there that couldn't have
been written in 1997 -- nor one that takes note of any of the events
since then (well, to be fair, there's also a lot of puffery stuck in
there to promote an ebook company called Vertical that probably didn't
exist in 1997, but that's beside the point).
Take DRM. The author asserts on the one hand that DRM can work, and
that it won't be so invasive that it turns customers (which the author
insists on calling "consumers," an odious buzzword that invokes
Gibson's description in Idoru, "...a vicious, lazy, profoundly
ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of
the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a
baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by
itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's
covered
with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and
makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only
express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by
changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in
presidential elections.") off.
This despite the actual marketplace fact that all DRM becomes invasive
(ask any copyright policy maker in a country that allows parallel
importing how he feels about the "lightweight" region-coding DRM on
DVDs that reverses the laws he was elected to enact).
This despite the actual marketplace fact that DRM is generally broken
within a few days of engagement with the public, often by teenagers,
grad students, or people with ready acccess to sophisticated
DRM-cracking tools like Google and the sinister Shift key (for more on
DRM, see my DRM talk)
But the author goes further and asserts that without DRM, there will
be no market for entertainment product ever again ("If publishers stop
wanting DRM, it's the end of popular creative arts. Not as we know
them, but period.") despite the fact that the software industry got
bigger when it abandoned DRM, and despite the fact that no
new medium has ever succeeded by appealing to the virtues of the
medium before it (there're very few ideas more goofy than the idea
that people will start buying ebooks just as soon as they have fewer
features and more restrictions, provided that the ebooks can be played
back on special-purpose devices with sharp screens). He cites Sony as
proof of this ("Sony may be nuts, but they're not that nuts."),
despite the fact that Sony was forced out of the walkman market by its
failure to deliver the DRM-free devices that its customers demanded.
Yes, Sony is that nuts.
He doesn't even touch on the marketplace experience of every published
writer who's tried giving away DRM-free ebooks -- me, Lessig, Jim
Munroe, the Baen authors, Orson Scott Card -- universally, the
experience is that we sell more books (Lessig's latest just went into
its third hardcover printing, for chrissakes). This of course echoes
the experiences from elsewhere: the movie studios' box office revenues
appear to be increasing as a function of the amount of movies being
shared on P2P nets and the only quantitative study of music
downloading and music sales concluded that the effect was usually
neegligible, rarely negative, and sometimes positive.
He does, however, take time out to snidely dismiss blanket licensing
schemes -- like the ones that enable radio, live performance, covers,
lending, coursepacks, jukeboxes, rentals, etc etc etc all over the
world -- as a kind of pipe dream ("When the visionary of all
visionaries develops a model for all-you-can-eat media consumption
that provides for the artists to actually eat, perhaps I'll change my
mind; until then, we are what we are, and we'll have to play nice
within the confines of the present system.") despite the fact that
these systems have been employed to universal good effect whenever new
technology makes exclusion too costly to work effectively. It's like
he's totally missed the fact that trillions of dollars go right into
the pockets of creators and rights-holders through these schemes.
Bizarrely, he asserts that people might buy periodicals that expire
off their players in 60 days -- despite the fact that every one of us
has a friend or relative with a giant stack of old computer mags, or
National Geographics, or colorful Wireds, sitting on a shelf.
Really, it's as though he sat down and called an ebook startup's PR
guy, then reasoned out all of his conclusions a priori,
without reference to any of the activity in the field.
I believe fiercely and passionately in ebooks -- that's why I give
talks like this one --
but articles like this do nothing to advance the discussion. They're
echoes of the dotcom snakeoil that dominated the ebook discussion five
or ten years ago, and it's a disappointment to see this kind of
editorial-in-defiance-of-facts on a hip net-zine like Gizmodo.
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PowerByHand gets new VP and new name for
eBook Business
PowerByHand gets new VP and new name for
eBook Business
05/21/2004 07:04 PMNew ebook provides help with AirPort
networks
New ebook provides help with AirPort
networks
07/09/2004 10:15 AM"Take Control of Your AirPort Network" is a new US$5 ebook that aims
to help Mac users who are trying to install or improve their AirPort
wireless network...
The AdSense Secrets eBook
The AdSense Secrets eBook
03/17/2005 03:40 AM
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Would You Buy An eBook That Only Works
For A Few Days?
Would You Buy An eBook That Only Works
For A Few Days?
06/23/2004 12:25 PMHere's yet another story about misplaced digital rights management
technology. A review of the new Sony Libre says that it's a great new
eBook reader with
hellish
DRM technology that makes it mostly useless. Because someone was
so afraid about business model issues, rather than looking at what
customers wanted, the Libre will only let you view an eBook
that
you bought for 60 days -- and then it gets locked up. The
reviewer describes it as "a sad business model" and notes that he
feels "sorry for this terrific little device... hamstrung as it is by
misguided anti-piracy efforts." At what point do companies realize
that DRM turns customers off and simply opens up opportunities for
competitors? There's simply no customer demand for crippled products.
Audio Ebook Project
Audio Ebook Project
06/17/2005 07:17 PMI’m still pulling together an announcement so I don’t
have a detailed write-up yet, but I wanted to note that I’m
putting together the-most-incredible-offer-ever for audio ebooks for
Illinois libraries (not just MLS libraries). It’s one of
the other Really Big Projects I’m working on right
now.
If you’re thinking about signing a contract for
digital audiobooks, DON’T commit to anything until you hear this
offer. If you’re dying for more info, call or
email me at MLS, but I should have some info up here soon. I
promise you won’t find a better deal anywhere else!
eBook Information and Resources
eBook Information and Resources
05/27/2004 06:27 AMeBook Information and Resourceshttp://12.108.175.91/ebookw
eb/linksA comprehensive and constantly updated set of
links and resources to eBook Information. This has been added to
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Free Ebook For Your Website
Free Ebook For Your Website
03/14/2005 05:24 PMRoger Lee is the author of three poetry books, Poems of Praise,
Streams of Light and Christmas Poetry. The books are of the Christian
genre, reflecting God's grace being manifested in nature. As well as,
reflecting upon man's relationship with God. [PRWEB Mar 11, 2005]
MacLifestyle launches new Panther eBook
MacLifestyle launches new Panther eBook
10/29/2003 12:10 AMMe and the rest of the gang over at
MacLifestyle are happy to
report that we've launched our first title--Panther Tips & Tricks.
It's an eBook which you can download for $5.95 and is targeted at the
average Mac user who wants to get up to speed with Panther without
having to wade through big huge books, or waste a lot of time. Hope
you guys enjoy it!
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MacDesignNew ebook focuses on AirPort networking
New ebook focuses on AirPort networking
07/09/2004 10:10 AMTidBITS Electronic Publishing on Friday released the latest edition in
its ebook series, "
Take Control of
Your AirPort Network." Author Glenn Fleishman gives users
step-by-step instructions in the 89-page book, offering advice on
buying equipment, setting up a base station, Apple's new AirTunes
music streaming technology and more. The ebook costs $5.00 and is
available from the TidBITS Web site.
New Clone Wars eBook: The Hive
New Clone Wars eBook: The Hive
05/02/2004 03:39 PMThe
Clone Wars continues in June with
The Cestus
Deception, a hardcover novel by Steven Barnes and published by Del
Rey Books. But a tie-in eBook called
The Hive will be available
for download in May, which will feature Obi-Wan Kenobi protecting the
only remaining egg of the royal family of the X'Ting. Click
here<
/a> for more details on the story, as well as a look at the cover.
Foo Bound
Foo Bound
09/10/2004 03:36 AM Heading to Foo Camp with Eveli....
It's a Bird, a Plane…a Hybrid
Tablet/eBook
It's a Bird, a Plane…a Hybrid
Tablet/eBook
04/13/2005 07:27 PMWe hear Microsoft is privately showing off a prototype of a hybrid
Tablet PC/eBook unit around the Redmond campus. And we also hear that
Chairman Bill Gates might use the upcoming WinHEC show to publicly
tout this kind of new mini-Tablet form factor.
The Definitive Guide to Enterprise
Manageability eBook
The Definitive Guide to Enterprise
Manageability eBook
04/11/2004 10:43 AMSharps Shows Prototype Color eBook
Sharps Shows Prototype Color eBook
07/06/2004 10:07 AM
Not content to
let Sony be the only company to fail to bring a proper eBook to
market, Sharp has shown a prototype eBook reader with a screen that is
only 1mm thick -- inside the transparent plastic case that is
obviously much thicker. Although they don't plan to have the
technology in saleable form until 2007, they already have one major
leg up on Sony (and I'm not just talking about the color screen);
since eBooks have already been a major part of Sharp's Zaurus
campaign, their library already has around 7000 titles, compared to
Sony's meager 100 or so.
Links, and I wrestle a squid to its death, after the jump.
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