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Amazon book sales rise 9% faster through
search inside the book feature
Amazon book sales rise 9% faster through
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Book Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition
Book Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition
06/12/2004 12:32 PMBook Publishers Selling Direct - Pissing
Off Book Retailers
Book Publishers Selling Direct - Pissing
Off Book Retailers
02/13/2004 05:52 AMOne of the struggles that companies have as distribution and sales
mechanisms change is handling legacy channel conflict issues. Dell
became huge by selling direct to customers, but when rival Compaq
started to move in that direction, their retail partners freaked out -
and Compaq had to scale back their plans. It appears that book
publishers are now going through the same process. They've realized
that if someone is looking for info about certain books on their site,
it makes sense to also offer them a chance to buy it. However, it's
pissing off retailers, who don't
want to hear that their suppliers are competing with them. Retailers
say a reasonable compromise would be having the publishers point to
the retailers, which was my first response as well. However, then it
becomes a political situation of who do you link to and why? There's
also the fact that this makes for a less enjoyable consumer
experience. I know that, more than once, I've been annoyed at online
sites where I go for info on buying a product, but when I try to buy
am given a big list of retailers instead of a way to buy right away.
Book review - Book lowers fear of
threats
Book review - Book lowers fear of
threats
12/15/2003 08:15 AMvnunet.com Dec 15 2003 7:11AM ET
Repeat After Me: A Book is a Book
Repeat After Me: A Book is a Book
07/13/2004 03:49 PMThis
NY
Times piece compares Amazon.com with Napster. Huh?
The odd logic is that used books sold online are cutting into sales of
new books, which may or may not be true. But the Napster comparison is
ludicrous for some obvious reasons, including the fact that an actual
book is not a digitized song, and that if I'm holding a specific book
you are not holding the same copy.
The Times piece is about the "doctrine of first sale," which basically
says that once a work is sold, it's gone from the creator's control.
The purchaser of the item can resell it, give it away or throw it in
the garbage, if that's what he wants to do.
Copyright holders have never liked this very much, and I can
sympathize. Visual artists who see escalating prices for works they
sold at bargain when they were starting out tend to really not like
this situation. But the doctrine of first sale is vastly better than
the alternative.
The idea that the copyright owner should get a cut every time a book
changes hands is a Pandora's box. It's also just what copyright
industry would like to see happen, and that's what the entertainment
industry is trying to create with its various digital restrictions
technologies.
The industry wants a pay-per-use world of arts and letters. Resist.
And let's please not equate selling a used book with copyright
infringement.
Book review: The Book of SAX: The Simple
API for XML (Unix Review)
Book review: The Book of SAX: The Simple
API for XML (Unix Review)
11/18/2002 09:56 AMA Little Golden Book - My Little Golden
Book About Zogg
A Little Golden Book - My Little Golden
Book About Zogg
02/05/2005 09:55 PMmash-ups are the future .. The Cuddly Menace ..
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The man behind the book
The man behind the book
06/22/2005 02:04 AMWhat drove an accomplished New York editor to write a salacious new
Hillary Clinton bio that has critics calling him a smear artist?
New Book -
New Book -
10/28/2003 11:06 PMMy Book as a PDF
My Book as a PDF
12/05/2003 12:36 PMThe Wireless Networking Starter Kit, 2nd Edition, is now available as
a downloadable electronic book (in PDF): We've launched our new Web
site for the second edition of our book (co-written by Adam Engst and
myself), and we now also have available an electronic edition, which
can be purchased and downloaded worldwide from our Web site. The
second edition covers all the issues associated with buying,
configuring, and running Wi-Fi networks at home and in small offices,
thoroughly revised for 802.11g and WPA, with new chapters on cellular
data, Bluetooth, wireless ISP software, and many other wireless
topics....
You Do Know that You Don't Always Have
to Buy the Book, Right?
You Do Know that You Don't Always Have
to Buy the Book, Right?
02/08/2003 09:24 AMYou Do Know that You Don't Always Have to Buy the Book, Right?
As a book author, and also an O'Reilly author, I probably shouldn't
post this. Oh well. Yesterday I needed a quick little php code
snippet to display a calendar. While I could have done this by
searching phpclasses, google, any number of books I already have,
ripping it out of another application (I've done it before), I decided
instead to do it by NOT BUYING the book. In specific I wanted to see
that if a book had the source code online, could I use it without the
book. I decided to use the O'Reilly PHP Cookbook as my test case. So
I found its home page. Then I downloaded and unzipped the code.
(Note that I did NOT look at the table of contents). Then I went into
an editor which can search across directories and told it to look for
"calendar") and I got this (source). Here is a working version.
Side Note: An interesting thing to me is that in the default version
included in the book, the navigation arrows DON'T work. I had to add
the if empty tests at the top to make the code work. Otherwise the
code just generates the same calendar regardless of clicking on the
arrows.
So the bottom line here was I spent about 5 minutes to find pretty
much exactly the routine I was looking for and then fix it so it
worked. That's probably just about what I would have spent with
Google or another site. And I didn't even buy the book. That's not
to say that I'm opposed to buying books. Or that I think you
shouldn't. It is more just food for thought than anything else.
New book from HST.
New book from HST.
10/28/2003 11:08 PMOk, so I finally got around to reading the new HST book, Kingdom of
Fear ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0713997141/ ) I
found...
The Book of SAX
The Book of SAX
06/15/2002 03:23 AMThe Book of SAX published by No Starch Press.
Online! The Book
Online! The Book
12/03/2003 01:25 PMAluminum Book
Aluminum Book
09/20/2004 01:04 AMTechTree Sep 20 2004 5:46AM GMT
The Book Cooperative
The Book Cooperative
07/14/2004 05:16 AMThe Book Cooperativehttp://book-coop
erative.co.uk/pages/page_1.phpThis site aims to bring
together people looking for books and journals with those looking to
dispose of them. The Book Cooperative is primarily used by University,
Public and Commercial libraries who wish to dispose of their unwanted
items. Listing is free of charge, anyone wishing to obtain a book or
journal listed will pay a small nominal fee to obtain the contact
details - and they take it from there. This will be added to
Academic Resources
2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.
Net Dating by the Book
Net Dating by the Book
02/10/2004 07:55 PMtechtv Feb 11 2004 0:20AM GMT
A Cook's Book 0.8.6.6
A Cook's Book 0.8.6.6
05/03/2004 03:12 PMRecipe management software designed to make storing, editing, and
finding recipes a snap.
Stuart's book
Stuart's book
06/05/2005 11:35 PMI meant to mention this earlier, but Stuart's book,
DHTML Utopia:
Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM, has been published.
I worked as a technical editor on the book, and I'm proud to have been
associated with it. Don't worry about the hairy title (apparently you
have to have DHTML in it or bookshops won't know where to put it /
people won't know what it's about), the inside is pure gold.
In their usual style, SitePoint have posted
the first four chapters online for your perusal so you don't have
to take my word for it, you can try it out for yourself.
XML and PHP book excerpt
XML and PHP book excerpt
09/03/2002 11:37 AMA clear, concise guide to the synergies between XML and PHP, many of
which are not immediately visible to intermediate developers.
Demonstrates how PHP and XML can be combined to build cutting-edge Web
applications. Read Chapter 5: PHP and Web Distributed Data eXchange
(WDDX) for free :-)
PHPMyAdmin Book
PHPMyAdmin Book
05/20/2004 02:26 PMPackt Book
Store :: Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management:
We've talked about Packt Publishing befor
e, but now it looks like they're really hitting high gear. Here's
a book about PHPMyAdmin, which I
never thought we'd see but which is badly needed. You may think you
know PHPMyAdmin, but if you look under the hood, there's functionality
there that I bet you never knew existed.
They also have a book
about eZ Publish, which I've worked with
and enjoyed very much.
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The magical book
The magical book
01/02/2004 11:05 PM
This magical book: beautiful (Flash) animated examples of 19th and
early 20th century movable children's books from the Toronto Public
Library's
Osborne
Collection of Early Children's Books.
Book of Jobs
Book of Jobs
06/17/2005 04:50 PM"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid
the trap of thinking you have something to lose. "
Steve Jobs' recent commencement speech is
really worth reading in full. It gets about as close to the bone, and
the truth, as we could expect from a technology CEO, or anyone else.
I find it very hard to reconcile the awareness contained in these
words with the reality of the executive pettiness that Jobs' Apple
keeps displaying (suing bloggers, banning publishers from its stores,
and so on). But then smart and creative people are inevitably
complicated, and the more successful they are, the less pressure
there is on them to resolve those complications.
Book Checker
Book Checker
11/18/2003 03:20 PMBookchecker.comhttp://www.Bookchecker.com/Bookchecker.com compares prices, shipping costs and delivery
times in 40 online bookstores.
Throw the Book at Them
Throw the Book at Them
04/20/2004 03:24 PMAngus McLeod wrote in
2004 Daemon's Revenge the Organization
that people would "
delay the
Copyright of this novel as long as possible." They did, and Art
Bell was
no help at
all. (04-20)
New Don Norman book
New Don Norman book
02/10/2004 02:47 AMChristmas cheer. Don Norman has a new book - Norman, D. A.
(2004). Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things. New
York: Basic Books. Excerpts at
www.jnd.org and he also pointed to this
site:
http://www.ok-cancel.com about
usability/interface design. Would that everybody read it!
This all came from a discussion about human factors: The human
factor *is* the problem in most disasters, but it is the human
managers, policy-setters and designers, not the human users, who are
at fault. Go forth and sin no more! and have great holidays!
[EDventure]
Coolio! Esther gets a real blog going (on blogware!) and Don
Norman (my hero) puts out a new book.
Double blessings - a sort of post-Chinese New Year gift.
Address book
Address book
03/13/2003 05:02 PMOK, LazyWeb, I need an address book. The Address Book.app that comes
with Mac OS X is nice for keeping about 10 addresses. We have 100.
(224 words)
Book Written In Txt
Book Written In Txt
01/28/2004 03:38 PMLast year there were a few stories about
teacher
s freaking out when their students were handing in papers written in
"txt" shorthand. I imagine those same teachers won't be all that
pleased to find out that someone has now
come out
with an entire book written in texting slang. The book (written
in French SMS slang) is aimed at kids to try to get them to stop
smoking - but I wonder if it will be used to get them to show their
teachers a "legitimate" use of txt slang. Of course, my guess is that
any book written by an adult, trying to use the shorthand that kids
use and trying to get them not to smoke is only going to get mocked.
However, not being a kid, not knowing French and not knowing "txt"
speak, I'm not really in a position to judge the quality of the book.
Still, if we thought English teachers were sticklers for students not
using texting shorthand, I can't imagine how angry the French language
keepers are going to be. The French, of course, are notorious for
trying to micromanage their language to keep impurities out. These
are the same folks who had to come up with
their own
French words for internet related terms, because they couldn't
have their language
pollute
d by English.
My book has a home
My book has a home
06/17/2005 04:25 PMTimes Books has agreed to publish my book, Everything is
Miscellaneous. I'm very happy about this. They are a great publisher
and my editor, Robin Dennis, is going to give the guidance I need to
write the book in a way that people (we hope!) will want to read. She
is, by the way, Jay Rosen's editor as well. I have a year to write it
and should come out in Jan. 2007, which only sounds like a long time
away if you're not facing it as a deadline. [Technorati tag:
EverythingIsMiscellaneous] Speaking of Jay, his blog won the
Reporters...
eZ publish book out now!
eZ publish book out now!
07/27/2004 07:34 PM
Submission by Damian Carvill
Learning eZ publish 3 : Building Content Management Solutions
Packt Publishing are pleased to announce the immediate availability of
the first book written on eZ publish: "Learning eZ publish 3 :
Building Content Management Solutions".
This book takes you through the process of designing and building
content-rich web sites and applications using eZ publish. Famed for
its power and flexibility, eZ publish can be daunting on first
approach. Moreover, it has advanced features that reward the
investment in learning. This book exists to ease experienced PHP
developers into thinking and developing the eZ publish way. With
hard-won experience of the practical difficulties faced by developers
working with eZ publish, and technical approval from eZ systems
(creators of eZ publish) this book is a distillation of the authors’
expertise, and the perfect way to master the system.
More details on Learning eZ publish 3 : Building Content Management
Solutions
The Not-So-Good Book
The Not-So-Good Book
12/02/2003 01:59 AMGod has a good case for a libel suit based on the Bible, according to
ventriloquist and long-time Tigger voice Paul Winchell: "The Old
Testament maligns the meaning of God and deprives us of a loving
image. There is no doubt in my mind that Scripture defames the essence
of God." (11-29)
Book Contest
Book Contest
06/05/2005 11:52 PM1. We'll send a free book to the first person who gets a business with
at least 10 employees to license the fair employment mark. 2. We'll
send a free book to the person who gets the largest number of
employees covered by the license in the next month. 3....
Dan Gillmor's new book, We
Dan Gillmor's new book, We
08/02/2004 03:02 AMDan Gillmor's new book,
We the Media, has hit the shelves. I was asked to read this
earlier for a blurb, and was completely taken with it -- it's the sort
of book that I will be encouraging others to read for years to come,
the sort of book that underpins both my work at EFF (because so much
of Dan's thesis about democratized reportage hinges on the importance
of a free and open network) and my work as an sf writer (because Dan's
vision of the future is so compelling. Here's the blurb I wrote for
Dan:
"Clear-eyed, hype-free and for all that prescient and inspiring. We
the Media is Gillmor's heroic effort to bridge the tech-obsessed
polyannas like me and the skeptical grownups whose hardened
attitutudes won't admit of this stuff. He's done us all a service by
writing it for us."
Dan's publisher, O'Reilly and Associates, have put up a website for
his book here:
LinkLess bl0g, more book
Less bl0g, more book
01/06/2003 01:22 AMAs of today, I'm spending more time on my book and less time on almost
everything else--including my blog. I've set an agressive schedule for
completing it and need to spend many hours each day on it from now
until...
Wizard Book
Wizard Book
09/06/2004 01:57 AMTechTree Sep 6 2004 5:40AM GMT
Dmitry has a book out!
Dmitry has a book out!
02/16/2004 02:35 PMPablos sez, "Dmitry Sklyarov became the first martyr of the DMCA's
Dark Age when he was arrested by federal agents for speaking at a
conference about eBook security in 2001. He's a brilliant engineer
who has done security analysis of eBook copy protection schemes.
Dmitry is also a Russian citizen, and the wrong guy to suffer for
backwards attempts at modern copyright by United States corporate
lawmakers. Fortunately, the courts did the right thing and the case
against Dmitry was dropped. Dmitry has since written 'Hidden Keys to
Software Break-ins and Unauthorized Entry' which became available in
English on Amazon this week. Even if you aren't into cryptanalysis,
DRM, or computer security, buying this book will up your whuffie."
Link
(
Thanks, Pablos!)
A Book, A Tutorial
A Book, A Tutorial
03/13/2003 10:21 AMFrom Ben Hammersley: Weblog Hacks "Part of the Hacks series, the book
will consist of at least 100 cool tricks,...
Canada e-Book
Canada e-Book
02/19/2004 06:14 AMCanada e-Bookhttp://142.206.72.67/r000_e.htm
Much like the rest of the world, Canada is still
developing as a nation. To make sense of this ever-changing country,
the Canada e-Book uses sound, images, tables, graphs and both
analytical and descriptive text to look at Canada—The Land, The
People, The Economy and The State.
Book Review
Book Review
03/13/2003 10:16 AMI've been ill for two weeks now, So I haven't been able to do anything
in my spare time besides...
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