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Ficbot’s tips for publishers: Avoid eBabel muddles, copy successes, simplify pricing—plus others ideas

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Posted in DRM, E-books and all that, Ficbot, POD, Print on demand, e-book, e-book economics, e-book ergonomics, e-book pricing, e-book technology, e-books, e-books and other digipubs, ePub, ebook, ebook pricing, ebook publishing, ebook readers, ebooks | 14 Comments »

Notes from the Tower: One publisher’s struggles with ePub

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Posted in Adobe, Oreilly, Sony Reader, Stanza, eBabel, ePub, ebook readers, iPhone and iPod Touch | 24 Comments »

Adobe-DRMed ePub isn’t ‘open’: Why the New York Times urgently needs to clarify its Sony eBook Store article

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Posted in DRM, E-books and all that, New York Times, e-book, e-book technology, e-books, e-books and other digipubs, ePub, ebook, ebook readers, ebooks | 4 Comments »

$199 Acer netbook with 8.9-inch screen, 16G solid-state drive and Win XP Home: E-reading possibility?

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Posted in E-books and all that, e-book, e-book economics, e-book ergonomics, e-book pricing, e-book technology, e-books, e-books and other digipubs, ebook, ebook pricing, ebook publishing, ebook readers, ebooks | 2 Comments »

DRM, Orwellian book zaps and eBabel: Will the press TRULY grasp the importance of e-book ownership?

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Posted in Amazon, Amazon Kindle, E-books and all that, Kindle DX, e-book, e-book technology, e-books, ebook, ebook publishing, ebook readers, ebooks, kindle, media: dinos + mammal acts, newspapers | 8 Comments »

The second apology from Jeff Bezos: The one I WISH he’d write in favor of genuine ownership of books

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Posted in Amazon, Amazon Kindle, DRM, E-books and all that, Fictionwise, e-book, e-book technology, e-books, e-books and other digipubs, ebook, ebook publishing, ebooks | 3 Comments »

Now online: E-book glitch wisdom, Random’s ePub progress, ePub Cybook news, other IDPF conf tidbits

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Posted in Cybook, DRM, E-books and all that, IDPF, e-book, e-book economics, e-book ergonomics, e-book pricing, e-book technology, e-books, e-books and other digipubs, ebook, ebook pricing, ebook publishing, ebook readers, ebooks | 4 Comments »

Amazon, ePub, and DRM: My opinions

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Posted in Amazon, Amazon Kindle, B&N, Barnes & Noble, Chris Meadows, DRM, Kindle for iPhone, e-book technology, eBabel, iPhone and iPod Touch, kindle | 15 Comments »

ePub? Plenty of point to it. Cross-platform DRM? Pointless. Amazon biz approach? Dangerous to consumers.

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Posted in Amazon, Amazon Kindle, DRM, E-books and all that, e-book, e-book economics, e-book ergonomics, e-book pricing, e-book technology, e-books, e-books and other digipubs, eBabel, ePub, ebook, ebook pricing, ebook publishing, ebooks | No Comments »

DNAML’s eBabel push: 31,000+ titles by end of August; DRM zealots gone wild: ‘Single Device Activation ONLY!’

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Posted in DRM, drmfree campaign, e-book, e-book economics, e-book ergonomics, e-book pricing, eBabel, ebook, ebook pricing | 13 Comments »

German publishers botching ePub, at least for the Sony Reader? And that’s just one problem.

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Posted in Adobe, Adobe Reader, e-book technology, ePub, ebooks | 9 Comments »

Yes, we want to OWN books

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Posted in DRM, E-books and all that, e-book, e-book economics, e-book pricing, e-book technology, e-books, e-books and other digipubs, eBabel, ebook, ebook pricing, ebook publishing, ebooks | 5 Comments »

eReader Pro for the Blackberry draws good review from PDA-27 despite startup glitches

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Posted in E-books and all that, Mobipocket, Project Gutenberg, Stanza, e-book, e-book ergonomics, e-book technology, e-books, e-books and other digipubs, ebook, ebook publishing, ebooks | 1 Comment »

Fallout from Kindle software for iPhone/Touch? $150 used Kindles soon—but NO Mobi app for iPhone/Touch? And less chance of ePub for Kindle?

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Posted in Amazon, Amazon Kindle, DRM, e-book, e-book economics, e-book ergonomics, e-book pricing, e-book technology, e-books, e-books and other digipubs, e-ink, eBabel, ePub, ebook, ebooks | 20 Comments »

David Foster Wallace, ‘trashy’ newspapers, snark, and D.C. fiction: Now playing at SolomonScandals.com

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Posted in The Solomon Scandals, book publishing, books | No Comments »

The Kindle text-to-speech fuss: Big publishers were the real powers behind Amazon’s TTS retreat, says Authors Guild’s Paul Aiken

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Posted in Amazon, Amazon Kindle, E-books and all that, audio books, audiobooks, e-book, e-book economics, e-book technology, e-books, e-books and other digipubs, eBabel, ePub, ebook, ebook publishing, ebooks, kindle | 1 Comment »

Amazon-Mobi DRM vs. a first novelist: DRM delays Diesel eBooks’ promo of ‘The Solomon Scandals’

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Posted in Amazon, E-books and all that, The Solomon Scandals, books, e-book, e-book economics, e-book technology, e-books, e-books and other digipubs, ebook, ebook publishing, ebooks | 16 Comments »

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