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Apple gives book creators beautiful, golden handcuffs
Today Apple raised the bar on interactive textbook publishing, with the introduction of a revamped iBooks app for the iPad and a free textbook publishing app for the Mac. If you’ve got an iPad, a fairly new Mac, and a … Continue reading
Posted in Apple iOS, apps, ebooks, hardware, publishing, self publishing, software
Tagged app store, Apple iOS, ebooks, EULA, fine print, ibooks, licenses, ownership, publishing, restrictions, textbooks
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It’s the Day Against DRM; does anybody care?
Why isn’t the Day Against DRM a bigger deal among ebook consumers? Continue reading
Posted in commentary, DIY, ebooks, featured, news, online, software
Tagged activism, copyright, defective by design, digital rights, dmca, drm, ebooks, fsf, laws, restrictions
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Booki.sh launches Australian ebook store where you can’t download your purchases
It begins! The ebooks-in-the-cloud concept that I warned against earlier this week, the one publishers say is the ideal future marketplace (for them, not for consumers), is in private beta right now in Australia. It’s using the Monocle web-based ebook … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-consumer, australia, bad, browsers, cloud, drm, ebooks, javascript, licensing, monocle, readings, restrictions, retailers, web based
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Figuring out sideloading on the updated Kindle for iOS app
Updated 12 Jan 2010 with corrections. It turns out that the best new feature of the updated Kindle app… After hearing back from others as well as from an Amazon developer, I re-tested all of my files on both an … Continue reading
Why social reading apps are doomed to fail
I’ve been testing out some social reading apps on the iPad in recent weeks, and while I hope to post something more in-depth in the near future, I read some items today that corroborate a general disappointment I’ve been feeling. … Continue reading →