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Three misperceptions about the ebook business
You can pretty much always find outspoken, passionate diatribes about ebooks online. I’ve written several myself, but in my defense I had to, or else the Ebook Bloggers Board would have flogged me and taken away my WordPress dashboard. Even … Continue reading
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Tagged canards, copyright, digital publishing, ebooks, media, misperceptions, myths, publishing, self publishing
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U.S. Copyright Office okays stripping DRM on some types of ebooks
Update: I may be getting too excited; readers over at Teleread say this was already possible, and today’s announcement just affirmed that it will remain an exemption for the next three years. The Copyright Office is handing out a whole … Continue reading
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Tagged breaking, circumvention, copyright, copyright office, cracked, disabled, dmca, drm, ebooks, exemptions, fair use, kindle, library of congress, loc, loopholes, text to speech, tts
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Notes from yesterday's Google Book Search settlement workshop
Here were the main themes discussed at yesterday’s Google Book Search settlement workshop hosted by the National Writers Union (NWU). Continue reading
Posted in authors, business, commentary, publishing
Tagged aiken, authors guild, book search, class-action, copyright, digital, ebooks, fair use, google, lawsuits, lynn chu, online, panel discussions, publishers, settlement, union, websites, workshops, writers
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Sign this petition if you think the Authors Guild should leave the Kindle 2's text-to-speech feature alone
The National Federation of the Blind has joined up with dozens of other organizations to form the Reading Rights Coalition, which is fighting for the right to use the Kindle 2′s text-to-speech function on any text without having to pay … Continue reading
Posted in Kindle 2, news
Tagged Amazon, audiobooks, authors guild, blind, blindness, copyright, Kindle 2, NFB, protests, reading rights, rights, t2s, text to speech, tts
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Amazon caves to Authors Guild, allows publishers to disable "Read It Now"
Amazon gives in to the Authors Guild, and will let publishers and authors disable the read-it-now function on books. Continue reading
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Tagged audiobooks, authors guild, copyright, ebooks, Kindle 2, publishers, read it now, rights, text to speech, tts
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Prez of Author's Guild makes his anti-Kindle text-to-speech argument in the New York Times
The Authors Guild has published an unconvincing op-ed in the New York Times that presents their argument against the Kindle 2′s “read to me” functionality. Continue reading
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Tagged authors guild, copyright, kindle, Kindle 2, lawsuits, read it now, roy blount, text to speech, tts
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Why DRM is a distraction
There are bigger problems in the ebook marketplace than individual piracy. You may not feel that way if you’re an author or publisher with a marketable title. And you may not feel that way if you’re a staunch consumer advocate, … Continue reading →