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Diesel eBooks Introduces Free Online
Test Simulator to Reduce "Fear Factor"
Involved With Downloading Encrypted
eBooks

Diesel eBooks Introduces Free Online
Test Simulator to Reduce "Fear Factor"
Involved With Downloading Encrypted
eBooks 03/17/2005 03:31 AM
Diesel eBook visitors are now able to certify their computer upfront by downloading a sample encrypted ebook at no charge. The test ebooks are available in three different versions according to reader format including Adobe Reader, Microsoft Reader and Palm/eReader. [PRWEB Mar 16, 2005]

"Proofreaders? Marks"

"Proofreaders? Marks" 06/14/2004 09:52 AM

Bible Proofreaders Sweat the Small Stuff
(AP)

Bible Proofreaders Sweat the Small Stuff
(AP) 05/19/2004 03:10 PM
AP - Thank the Lord — and the proofreaders at Peachtree Editorial and Proofreading — that the Bible refers to "our ancestors" instead of "sour ancestors," and calls for an end to "factions" — not "fractions." The proofreading service caught those typos and others before the latest edition of the Holy Book went to press.

EBOOKS Are Books Too!!!

EBOOKS Are Books Too!!! 08/27/2004 09:28 PM
WebDevInfo Aug 28 2004 0:04AM GMT

Ebooks doing well sans DRM

Ebooks doing well sans DRM 08/27/2004 01:46 PM
Cory Doctorow: CNet reports that ebook sales topped 3 million last year, and that publishers are slowly coming around to rejecting DRM. The best part is that famous writers like JK Rowling are rejecting ebooks, a courtesy that leaves the field open for struggling midlist writers (ahem).

Bad experiences with heavy-handed DRM have soured many potential customers on e-books, said Mike Violano, vice president and general manager of eReader, which equips its titles with a security key based on the credit card number used to purchase it. The approach give wide latitude to the original buyer while effectively thwarting illegal copying, he said.

"There are far too many standards and ways of doing things now, and that's a source of frustration for customers," Violano said. "If they have a bad e-book experience the first time, where they have trouble reading something they've paid for, it's hard to get them back."

Analyst Bedford said nervous publishers have emphasized security over opening new markets.

"There's no good DRM, period," she said. "Publishers all want heavy-duty DRM, but the problem is that anything you do gets in the way of buying and using e-books. My bias is to use a lot of psychological DRM. You put a price on it; you have statements...making it very clear you can use this as you would a print book, and you rely on the fact that by and large, most people aren't out to break the law."

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Serialized eBooks via RSS

Serialized eBooks via RSS 02/01/2005 10:07 PM
Russell Beattie: “Many of us are too busy to read classic books out there, instead choosing ‘page turners’ or books that are more applicable to our every day lives (like a some new marketing book). But we do have time to zip through our aggregator daily, right? So by taking a 500 page novel and distributing it, a few pages at a time, via RSS, we could read a new book in a month or so without even trying.”

SpiderWorks eBooks

SpiderWorks eBooks 02/01/2005 09:14 PM
If you're like me, this is a must check out: SpiderWorks eBooks. Yes, they don't officially open until February 1, but just look at what they'll have on opening day: "Danny Goodman's AppleScript Handbook (Mac OS X Edition)" "Learn C...

Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books

Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books 02/13/2004 01:24 PM
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Manga and eBooks on Your PSP

Manga and eBooks on Your PSP 03/29/2005 11:24 AM

1UP has a write-up about reading manga and eBooks on your PSP, which is a pleasant enough read, but for fears of legal retribution doesn't actually link to a lot of content. That means there's no one-stop download, but they can at least point you in the right direction. The main problem I see for comics and manga is that not everything is going to fit to one size and the current image viewing software on the PSP doesn't scroll easily, so reading large frames could be difficult. For eBooks, though, it looks pretty decent. Maybe someone will start converting free books to a native PSP resolution .zip files so I don't have to do any real work.

Feature: Manga & Books [IUP]

New Lockergnome eBooks!

New Lockergnome eBooks! 06/05/2005 11:36 PM

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Baen ebooks CDs as .torrents

Baen ebooks CDs as .torrents 04/29/2004 07:41 AM
Baen Books is a successful science fiction publisher that releases a lot of its titles as non-DRM text/html files via its website and on CDROMs bound into its book. Now, all six of the Baen CDs, representing a substantial library of science fiction, are available as Bit Torrent files, to be gang-downloaded to all comers at speed. Link (Thanks, Robotech Master!)

Choose the Right Format for Your Ebooks

Choose the Right Format for Your Ebooks 07/01/2004 08:23 PM
WebDevInfo Jul 1 2004 11:43PM GMT

A Rising Tide of Ebooks

A Rising Tide of Ebooks 03/17/2005 03:21 AM
Jeff Carlson (~780 words)

Adam is fond of talking about the "Macintosh ecosystem" and how the companies and products that make up that system generally work together for a common good. When a shortcoming is found in Mac OS X, for example, software developers create utilities to address it. In many cases, you get several programs that do the same thing, but with their own unique approaches. Look at the plethora of snippet-keepers (many of which Matt Neuburg has reviewed). A couple years ago, I didn't put much thought into whether such note-taking and -organizing software existed, and now I look for which one offers the features that suit my style of working.

Transferring eBooks to your Pocket PC

Transferring eBooks to your Pocket PC 04/09/2004 04:09 PM

Ebooks and OCR come to the mobile phone

Ebooks and OCR come to the mobile phone 03/19/2005 02:34 AM
In Japan people are now reading entire books on their mobile phones. Also, Hitachi brings OCR to camera phones.

Doctorow: Ebooks Neither E Nor Books

Doctorow: Ebooks Neither E Nor Books 02/13/2004 12:00 PM

Read Manga And eBooks On The PSP

Read Manga And eBooks On The PSP 03/28/2005 10:52 PM
It's not just a great gaming rig: our sister publication 1UP has put together a guide for reading books and Manga comics on the PSP.

eBooks Suddenly Getting More Attention

eBooks Suddenly Getting More Attention 07/20/2004 04:28 AM
Every few years there's a big fuss about the future of ebooks, and they never seem to get very far. Sure, a few early adopter types buy into the whole concept, but with clumsy readers, annoyin g digital rights management and a lack of content, they usually don't get very far. Here's yet another story, though, suggesting that, perhaps, the time has come for eBooks. The article quotes a study saying that eBooks are "the fastest growing segment of the publishing industry" which really isn't that impressive when you realize from what a small base they're starting, and considering that most of the publishing world is pretty well established. In absolute numbers, ebook sales are still a barely noticeable blip on the very distant outskirts of the radar.

Joy of Tech and Take Control offer 50%
off eBooks.

Joy of Tech and Take Control offer 50%
off eBooks. 02/05/2005 09:07 PM
Take Control eBooks is offering a special deal for fans of the our Joy of Tech comic. For a limited time they are offering a 50% savings off of their eBooks. That means you can pick up great titles like Take Control of Mac OS X Backups by Joe Kissell and Take Control of Your AirPort Network by Glenn Fleishman for only $5.00, or Take Control of Buying a Mac by Adam Engst for only $2.50! You can check out the details and the money saving links here!

Read MS Reader ebooks on your
SmartPhone!

Read MS Reader ebooks on your
SmartPhone! 07/25/2004 10:57 AM

Top eBooks Library Patrons Aren't
Reading

Top eBooks Library Patrons Aren't
Reading 06/24/2004 09:16 PM

Top 10 eBooks Library Patrons Are Reading

"The "Most Borrowed eBooks" statistics are from checkout information of tens of thousands of titles for the first half 2004.

1) Dude, Where's My Country? -- Michael Moore
2) The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People -- David Niven
3) The Low-Carb Comfort Food Cookbook -- Michael R. Eades, et al
4) The Big Bad Wolf -- James Patterson
5) How Would You Move Mount Fuji: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle --
William Poundstone
6) 3rd Degree -- James Patterson
7) The Lovely Bones -- Alice Sebold
8) 101 Best Tech Resumes -- Jay Block
9) Left Behind - Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
10) 1984 -- George Orwell" [Yahoo Finance, via Resourceshelf]

All this does is highlight the big, huge mistake J.K. Rowling continues to make by refusing to make the Harry Potter books available via Audible. Yeah, I know she's still making money hand over fist, but it's not like I can't rip the CDs to listen to them, like others who have shared the files on P2P networks worldwide. She could dominate this list, too, if she just faced reality.

Writing and Submitting Fr~ee eBooks For
Promotion

Writing and Submitting Fr~ee eBooks For
Promotion 07/14/2004 04:52 PM
WebDevInfo Jul 14 2004 9:45PM GMT

Spanish translation and augmentation of
Ebooks: Neither E nor Books

Spanish translation and augmentation of
Ebooks: Neither E nor Books 04/24/2004 03:47 PM
This is screamingly cool: I gave a talk at this year's Emerging Tech conference called Ebooks: Neither E nor Books and released the text into the public domain. Alas, the slides that accompanied the talk were full of copyrighted images that I was in no position to release into the public domain with the talk.

Now, Javier Candiera has taken the public domain text and translated it into Spanish. But Javier went one better -- several better, in fact -- he used my notes about the slides I'd used to "illuminate" his translation with clip art he discovered on the Net, and then went through the piece and added extensive footnotes. My Spanish is wildly imperfect, but it's good enough to see that this is a good, thoughtful translation, and the illustrations and citations are tremendous. Link (Thanks (a lot!) Javier!)

Bible reference eBooks coming for
Macintosh

Bible reference eBooks coming for
Macintosh 03/29/2005 09:15 AM
Logos Bible Software announced today that a Macintosh version of the company's digital library software is slated for release in December 2005, making thousands of Bible reference eBooks available to Macintosh users...

Four thousand Bible reference eBooks
coming to the Mac

Four thousand Bible reference eBooks
coming to the Mac 03/29/2005 01:47 PM
Logos Bible Software announced today that a Macintosh version of the company's digital library software is slated for release in December 2005, making thousands of Bible reference eBooks available to Macintosh users. The Macintosh version will read the same book files as the PC version, making 14 years of digital book publishing instantly available to Mac users. Categories include Bibles, original language texts, morphological databases, commentaries, dictionaries, lexicons, grammars, maps and more. Electronic books can be acquired in money-saving library collections or unlocked individually.

Ebooks talk has a hidden posthumanist
rant in it

Ebooks talk has a hidden posthumanist
rant in it 08/01/2004 08:00 AM
This is pretty funny -- kaksoisagentti took my ebooks talk and replaced "book" with "human," "ebook" with "posthuman" and "paper" with "flesh." The results are surprisingly cogent:

2. Posthumans complement flesh humans. Having an posthuman is good. Having a flesh human is good. Having both is even better. One reader wrote to me and said that he read half my first novel from the bound human, and printed the other half on scrap-flesh to read at the beach. Students write to me to say that it's easier to do their term fleshs if they can copy and paste their quotations into their word-processors. Baen readers use the electronic editions of their favorite series to build concordances of characters, places and events.

Link (Thanks, kaksoisagentti! )

Finding HOT, Non-Internet Marketing
Topics For Your eBooks

Finding HOT, Non-Internet Marketing
Topics For Your eBooks 06/21/2004 10:54 AM
Business Knowledge Source Jun 21 2004 3:40PM GMT

Four Thousand Bible Reference eBooks
Available for Macintosh Users Soon

Four Thousand Bible Reference eBooks
Available for Macintosh Users Soon 03/29/2005 04:19 AM
Logos Bible Software announces a release date of December 2005 for Macintosh version. [PRWEB Mar 29, 2005]

Palm Digital Media: Free eBooks Through
December 24 2003

Palm Digital Media: Free eBooks Through
December 24 2003 12/15/2003 08:08 AM

Big-Screen Pass

Big-Screen Pass 01/26/2004 10:20 AM
Best Buy and Circuit City vie for your big-screen TV business as the Super Bowl inches closer.

Don't Pass on iPass

Don't Pass on iPass 09/21/2004 10:37 AM
Investors should weigh shareholder unfriendliness against a stock's cheap price.

Passport gets another pass

Passport gets another pass 12/31/2004 12:32 PM
globetechnology.com Dec 31 2004 4:54PM GMT

Another pass for Gannon

Another pass for Gannon 03/19/2005 02:52 AM
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee block an investigation into how Gannon/Guckert got daily access to the White House.

"user/pass"

"user/pass" 05/20/2004 11:30 AM

get andy an E3 pass

get andy an E3 pass 05/06/2004 06:58 PM
he's a meme-maker, gaming industry. woo him.

Backstage Pass

Backstage Pass 06/27/2004 03:19 AM
“Over the past couple of years, The Smoking Gun has published excerpts from the backstage riders of a few dozen performers. But that assemblage has not been extensive enough for demanding TSG visitors, so we’ve gone out and obtained loads of new riders. So many, in fact, that our backstage collection now covers a whopping 142 acts—everyone from Frank Sinatra and the Rolling Stones to Kenny G and KC & the Sunshine Band.”

Don't Pass Go - Don't Collect 200
Dollars

Don't Pass Go - Don't Collect 200
Dollars 06/22/2004 09:12 AM

The Smoking Gun: Backstage Pass

The Smoking Gun: Backstage Pass 01/07/2004 07:00 PM
The Smoking Gun: Backstage Pass .. riders

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SAP/Microsoft would not pass regulators

SAP/Microsoft would not pass regulators 06/08/2004 12:18 PM
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Grok Description matches for Distributed Proofreaders pass 4,000 ebooks
GrokA matches for Distributed Proofreaders pass 4,000 ebooks

Distributed Proofreaders pass 4,000 ebooks