A couple months ago, Sony PR flacks sent e-mails to a number of web sites offering to answer questions regarding Sony’s (allegedly) upcoming Reader product for ebooks. Some answers to questions were posted on MobileRead Networks’s forum. File Formats Q) What File formats are supported natively and can be put directly on a Memory Stick…
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A couple years ago I recommended Newzcrawler as my preferred reader of choice. Newzcrawler was/is a good program but the developer tried to do way too much with the software and it had a number of nasty gotchas which ended up, well, getting me. For the past few months I’ve been using Sharp Reader 0.9.7…
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At his excellent TeleRead.Org blog, David Rothman tackles has an intriguing look at initial attempts to create annotation standards for e-books, web sites and other electronic documents. One existing initiative trying to move toward open standards for annotation of web documents is the W3C’s Annotea project where “annotations are stored externally in annotation servers and…
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Via Teleread (the best web site for coverage of e-book and related issues), I came across Kelly Applegate’s DRM horror story which basically recounts how she was screwed by actually bothering to pay for electronic editions of books back when Gemstar was running high, As the ebooks had the ability to download, I continued purchasing…
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My house used to be wall-to-wall books, but I dumped several thousand of them before I bought my house because I was running out of space and I’d prefer to have books in digital form. Now my hard drive is overflowing with hundreds of electronic books. The main drawback to electronic books is finding a…
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Of all the firms that don’t get electronic books, I’m kind of surprised to see O’Reilly Books in there. All I want is one thing — an e-book version of Jon Udell’s 1999 book Practical Internet Groupware. This is a book that, to my knowledge, has been out-of-print for several years. So I go to…
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OpenReader.Org is an interesting attempt to create a single format for e-books, as opposed to the couple dozen formats that are out there now, with Microsoft’s LIT and Adobe’s PDF formats way out in front of everyone else (Palm READER and Mobipocket’s secure format also have significant marketshare). The OpenReader format is going to be…
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This month I’ll spend about $150 on e-books. Unfortunately, the only way I could get an electronic copy of the latest Harry Potter book was to find a pirated version. HarperMedia doesn’t believe anyone’s reading e-books, so I guess the version I found doesn’t exist), so they’ve refused to release any of the books in…
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Okay, this is funny. Back in 2004, Michael Gartenberg chastised Cory Doctorow for a speech Doctorow gave to Microsoft about DRM. In his speech, Doctorow asserted that, 1. That DRM systems don’t work 2. That DRM systems are bad for society 3. That DRM systems are bad for business 4. That DRM systems are bad…
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Boing! Boing! points out that the BBC is offering free downloads of several Dr. Who e-books. Unfortunately, they’re offering them in odd page/chapter file combinations, but if you use Firefox and an extension like Down Them All, you can grab all of the ebooks fairly quickly and completely.