TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
August 28th, 2006

TeleBlog highlights from this past week

By David Rothman

Documents to GoBelow are the TeleBlog’s highlights from the past week. Graphic is from Reading Wowio’s free books (and other PDFs) on a PDA.

Schools and libraries
Google vs. libraries

Writing and publishing
Blogs and creativity: F. Scott Fitzgerald as a WordPress guy
Ambulance worker’s book offered free on Net
Freeload Press makes New York Times column
‘Publishers Fight Back against Google with New Book Search Service’
Tools for creating e-books

Reading and listening
‘The New Yorker magazine: Coming to a portable hard drive near you’
Test-drive of the HarperCollins Reader
Public Domain Books, Ready for Your iPod’
Mystery: Who killed my Palm TX’s access to Wowio’s free books?
Reading Wowio’s free books (and other PDFs) on a PDA
Recent English sci-fi at Project Gutenberg
Digital textual studies
Harlequin’s 99-cent e-story offerings
‘Where reading paper books is like having sex’

Hardware
Women, purses and PDAs (redux)
$100 laptop is now the CM1, aka ‘the Children’s Machine’: Score one for Aljazeera
OLPC/CMI in the U.S.
Dear Ja(y)ne: So can purses save the PDA market?
Hello, Palm? You need jog-wheel dials on all your PDAs
Behind $100 laptop’s high-res display
Next-gen Palm Treo

E-book formats
Did accessibility issue hurt OpenOffice?
JEP article and OpenReader

Copyright and DRM
Michael Geist’s ‘30 Days of DRM’
Poll on DRMed books: Give up resale rights, etc., if the price is right?
Yes, Virginia, there are e-book pirates

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