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By David Rothman

jkOnTheRun was right. Here’s the lowdown directly from Steve Pendergrast, co-owner of eReader.com, now part of Fictionwise:

“We currently have a little over 25,000 titles on ereader.com. Under the prior owners the number was about 17,500 at the end of 2007.

“We expect to hit 50,000 titles on ereader.com sometime this summer.

“So yes, we are adding quite a few. And these are legit titles, not thousands of vanity press/self published titles. These are major trade publisher titles or respected independent publishers.”

Related: Fictionwise buys eReader store from Motricity: Smart move for Pendergrast bothers—and good for e-book world in general.

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By Paul Biba

At the O’Reilly conference Kirk Biglione of Medialoper presented a very lively seminar on DRM. He started out by discussing what he felt were the music industry’s mistakes in their own approach to DRM. I thought they were interesting enough to share with you. The following are the 6 major mistakes Kirk felt that the music industry made:

1. Caught by surprise: the industry had no idea that file sharing would become an issue and had no plans to deal with it when it appeared:

2. Mistook consumer demand for piracy: The developement of MP3 resulted in the greatly enhanced ability of the consumer to listen to music in all sorts of different environments. This generated a huge new demand for music and resulted in the rise of file sharing networks and the creation of a new kind of pirate - one whose motive was not profit, but was social in nature, that is the sharing of files conferred status. The industry failed to realize this and reacted as if the file sharers were purely out to make, or save a buck. (more…)

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By Paul Biba

I just received this email from Fictionwise a few minutes ago:

Fictionwise is committed to supporting every major eBook device, and this week we’re proud to announce that all MultiFormat eBooks at Fictionwise are now available for the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader. This is even true of MultiFormat eBooks you bought in the past!

For Sony Reader just select “Sony Reader (LRF)” and for Kindle select “Kindle (AZW)” from the MultiFormat download menu!

Kindle customers can even register their Kindle email address at Fictionwise and upload wirelessly with a single click from their bookshelf! (Amazon’s 10 cent wireless charges apply.) For complete details on how to set this up, click here.

Here are a few items from the FAQ mentioned in the last link:

Which eBooks From Fictionwise Work on My Kindle?

All of our MultiFormat eBooks work on Kindle, other than a small number marked “Limited MultiFormat”. Check the Available eBook Formats section of any MultiFormat eBook description page to be sure. As of December 2007, over 15,000 MultiFormat titles are available for Kindle.

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