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| Jul 22, 2021 | Exposure doesn’t pay: Why tech conferences should compensate their speakers | Conferences have come a long way in the last 30 or so years.
When I started attending conferences, as an undergraduate student, the model for conferences based around academic researchers presenting their work to each other, see what is cur... |
| Sep 2, 2020 | Content Moderation Case Study: Amazon Alters Publishing Rules To Deter Kindle Unlimited Scammers (April 2016) | Summary: In July 2014, Amazon announced its “Netflix, but for ebooks” service, Kindle Unlimited. Kindle Unlimited allowed readers access to hundreds of thousands of ebooks for a flat rate of $9.99/month. |
| Sep 2, 2020 | Content Moderation Case Study: Amazon Alters Publishing Rules To Deter Kindle Unlimited Scammers (April 2016) | Summary: In July 2014, Amazon announced its "Netflix, but for ebooks" service, Kindle Unlimited. Kindle Unlimited allowed readers access to hundreds of thousands of ebooks for a flat rate of $9.99/month. |
| Apr 23, 2020 | Canadian Publishing Group Says France Has The Right Idea, Presses For Its Own Google Tax | Canada is more than just a calmer, more apologetic version of the United States. It's its own thing. But, more accurately, it's a Britain + France thing. While Canada shares a common border with us, it's still more Europe than US of A. |
| Apr 23, 2020 | Canadian Publishing Group Says France Has The Right Idea, Presses For Its Own Google Tax | Canada is more than just a calmer, more apologetic version of the United States. It’s its own thing. But, more accurately, it’s a Britain + France thing. While Canada shares a common border with us, it’s still more Europe than US of A.... |
| Apr 12, 2020 | От ценников до смартфонов и цветных ридеров: как развивается технология электронных чернил Статьи редакции | Рассказ о принципе работы таких чернил, изобретателях и сферах применения.
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| Dec 14, 2018 | Top EU Court's Advocate General Says German Link Tax Should Not Be Applied — But On A Technicality | As numerous Techdirt posts have explained, there are two really problematic areas with the EU’s proposed copyright directive. Article 13, which will require pretty much every major online site to filter uploaded content, and Article 11, the... |
| Jun 11, 2018 | Notorious Kindle Unlimited abuser has been booted from the bookstore | A few levels past the bestsellers and sci-fi/romance/adventure titles on Kindle Unlimited, in the darkest corners of the Kindle Direct Publishing market, there are books that are made entirely out of garbage designed to make scammers hundre... |
| Mar 29, 2018 | New federal rules blamed in disappearance of Kindle erotica titles | The upcoming Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, in addition to making Microsoft move to reduce obscenity on its platform, has hit erotica authors on Amazon. After many authors saw their rankings stripped on the Kindle store, essentially redu... |
| Feb 21, 2018 | EU Publishers Acknowledge Snippet Tax Concerns, But Say: 'It's OK, You Can Trust Us' | Techdirt has been following the ridiculous proposal to extend EU copyright even further to include tiny snippets from articles for years now. The idea has already been tried twice in the European Union, and failed dismally on both occasions... |
| Nov 9, 2017 | Pronoun, an ebook service for writers, shuts down | Pronoun, a self-publishing service for authors, is shutting down after promising free ebook distribution for authors. The company, which raised millions in funding and ended up being sold to Macmillan announced the shutdown in an email to a... |
| Sep 3, 2017 | Real news of fake reviews | Goodhart’s Law, as phrased by Mary Strathern: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Honored more in the breach than the observance, alas. Our algorithmic world has turned so many measures into targets, and by do... |
| Aug 21, 2017 | A Google Tax Isn't Going To Give Publishers The Payout They Think It Will | Somehow newspaper publishers — especially those located in Europe — believe the road to recovery is paved with income siphoned off Google. There have been plenty of proposed “snippet taxes” and other demands Google pay online publications f... |
| Jun 22, 2017 | Major Textbook Publishers Sue Follett Over Counterfeit Sales | Three of the country’s largest publishers, Pearson Education, McGraw-Hill Education and Cengage Learning, are suing Follett Corporation, a major textbook distributor, on charges of selling counterfeit textbooks in its stores.
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| Jun 22, 2017 | Major Textbook Publishers Sue Follett Over Counterfeit Sales | Three of the country’s largest publishers, Pearson Education, McGraw-Hill Education and Cengage Learning, are suing Follett Corporation, a major textbook distributor, on charges of selling counterfeit textbooks in its stores.
The companies ... |
| May 2, 2017 | Column:: No, ebooks aren’t dying — but their quest to dominate the reading world has hit a speed bump | It wasn’t so long ago that book publishers and bookstore owners were quailing about the coming of ebooks, like movie theater owners at the dawn of the television age.
Now they’re taking things more calmly. Recent statistics confirm a trend ... |
| Feb 20, 2017 | What’s next for books? | I like Digital Reader editor Nate Hoffelder. He is one of the few bloggers about publishing who doesn’t suck up to the industry, nor does he particularly gild the lily. He basically believes that books are great, publishing is probably doom... |
| Dec 22, 2016 | The new Barnes & Noble Nooks come with free malware | Barnes & Noble began outsourcing its Nook e-readers a few years ago after a partnership with Samsung and their latest $50 Nook 7 android tablet, announced last month, shows us how that has worked out for them. Their latest e-reader incl... |
| Sep 30, 2016 | Print and ebook revenue down as Amazon slashes prices | It’s good news and bad news for the publishing industry. The good news is that print revenue was up 3.4 percent in April, primarily in trade paperbacks, with some solid grown in young adult print and religious titles. The bad news is that r... |
| Sep 20, 2016 | Sainsbury’s exits digital entertainment, hands over e-book business to Kobo | Once again, a big retailer in the UK is pulling away from its ambitions to move into digital media. Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s is exiting the digital entertainment business. As part of that process, it will be outsourcing its e-book oper... |
| Aug 29, 2016 | New York subway is offering free ebooks (and Wi-Fi) for your commute | In an effort to highlight its upcoming launch of more in-train Wi-Fi (not to be confused with in-train cricket attacks), the New York MTA, Transit Wireless, and publishing powerhouse Penguin Random House are getting together to release eboo... |
| May 31, 2016 | Publisher Threatens Writers Association With Defamation Suit After Being Kicked Out For Not Paying Royalties | Back in 2014, erotica publisher Ellora’s Cave sued the person behind the influential and respected website Dear Author for defamation in response to a post questioning the imprint’s financial stability and detailing multiple authors’ claims... |
| May 5, 2016 | HarperCollins inexplicably turns to Bookshout to offer ebook downloads | John Biggs Contributor
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| Apr 11, 2016 | Get ready for the new Kindle | Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos teased a new Kindle device for this week. While the company has yet to make an official announcement about the new ereader, Tmall.com’s official Kindle page leaked the device. Tmall quickly removed the device, but Kind... |
| Apr 4, 2016 | Bezos teases new Kindle hardware for reveal next week | E-readers may not be the most exciting space in tech these days, but some of us still find a place for them in our lives — and it is we happy few whom Jeff Bezos announced, with enthusiasm palpable, that new Kindle hardware is just around t... |
| Mar 15, 2016 | Did Amazon have a security breach? Probably not | We've grown accustomed to security breaches, from Target to Home Depot and pretty much everywhere in between. It seems like daily news lately, but sometimes it seems companies are so hush-mouth that we just don't know. It's obviously in the... |
| Mar 7, 2016 | DRM Is Evil, Part 8,492: Nook Pulls Out Of UK, Exploring Options To Let People Retain Access To At Least Some Books | Yet another story of how badly DRM screws over legitimate buyers, with no actual benefit for copyright holders. This time, it’s about the total failure of Barnes & Noble’s Nook ebook reader, which is struggling globally, and shutting do... |
| Jan 8, 2016 | Harry Potter Books Head To Kindle And Nook After Pottermore Suffers Cruciatus Curse | Whether you side with Hufflepuff or Slytherin, it sucked that you could only get Harry Potter ebooks from a special service called Pottermore… until now. The company has is now selling these books for $9 on the Kindle and Nook and for a ver... |
| Jan 6, 2016 | GQ And Forbes Go After Ad Blocker Users Rather Than Their Own Shitty Advertising Inventory | And so the war on ad blockers marches on. Lots of sites have recently made ad blocking software a target of their ire, complaining that such software ruins everything and is a form of puppy genocide or whatever. We, of course, know that to ... |
| Jan 4, 2016 | As “Paying The Writer” Gets Easier, Whither Bookstores? | There has been a bit of fussiness in publishing over the past few weeks regarding the rise of used bookstores as cultural centers/ways to screw writers. While many are coming down on the side of “any exposure, even through piracy” is good, ... |
| Dec 29, 2015 | Book Publisher Has No Idea How Google Works But Pretty Sure It Could End Piracy If It Tried | Here’s the stupidest thing on piracy you’re going to read today. Or this month. Maybe even this whole holiday season. Rudy Shur, of Square One Publishers, has a problem with piracy, which he thinks is actually a problem with Google. |
| Dec 9, 2015 | Elsevier Granted Injunction Against Research Paper 'Pirate Site;' Which Immediately Moves To New Domain To Dodge It | The academic open access movement has gained traction over the past several years as more researchers have noticed their work disappearing behind incredibly expensive paywalls. What could be used to further the scientific world is instead b... |
| Oct 22, 2015 | With 120+ News Publishers Signed On, Google Opens Applications For $170M DNI Innovation Fund | Search giant Google today is taking the next step in its bid to rehabilitate its relationship with the news and publishing industry.
In Europe today, the company is opening up applications for startups and others who are interested in recei... |
| Oct 7, 2015 | Barnes & Noble Releases A New Nook-Branded Samsung Tablet | Alas, poor Nook! I knew him, Reader: a tablet of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: it hath borne me into the library a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it.
The Nook as we knew it is now a... |
| Sep 14, 2015 | Homeland Security Shuts Down Library’s TOR Node Citing “Situational Awareness” | In a move that is sure to end well for the Department Of Homeland Security and the police in Lebanon, New Hampshire, officials have asked a New Hampshire public library to shut down its TOR node to prevent terrorism and other mean, nasty th... |
| Sep 7, 2015 | The American Library Association Lost Control Of Their Facebook Page This Weekend | Getting hacked is bad news… unless you’re a bunch of librarians. For three days “hackers” took over the American Library Association’s Facebook page and posted an endless stream of clickbaity articles and spam. The hackers had control of th... |
| Jul 30, 2015 | Authors Guilded, United, And Representing… Not Authors | One of the more Orwellian aspects of the book world is the number of publisher advocate groups calling themselves Author This and Author That. The Authors Guild, Authors United, the Association of Authors’ Representatives… their devotion to... |
| Jul 9, 2015 | Barnes & Noble Closes International Nook Store | The Digital Reader found an interesting email sent to international Nook users about the Nook app for Windows. Essentially it informs international Nook users outside the US or the UK that their content will be removed from Windows machines... |
| Jul 6, 2015 | UK Publishers Don't See Why Anyone's Complaining About Copyright Law | As the copyright reform effort is underway in Europe, a number of legacy players are running a bit scared. The UK Publishers Association published a rather amusing attempt at “mythbusting” claims that reformers are making about copyright. N... |
| Jul 6, 2015 | Writers Are Going Cuckoo For KU | If you haven’t been following the Indie writing market I don’t blame you. It’s pretty crazy right now. After Amazon decided to tweak the royalties payouts to reflect how much readers actually read the books they downloaded as part of the Ki... |
| Jun 22, 2015 | Germany Says You Can't Sell Adult Ebooks Until After 10 PM | Why is it that many efforts made “for the children” are so stupid most tweens could point out the obvious flaws? Back during the discussion of the UK’s now-implemented ISP porn filtration system, Rhoda Grant of the Scottish Parliament wonde... |
| May 26, 2015 | With Publishing Tools Like These, Who Needs Enemies? | Indie authors seem to be living in an age of wonders. They can upload a PDF and sell it instantly on Kindles and tablets. They can print-on-demand like merry little Gutenbergs, slinging their wares from India to Indiana. They can raise an a... |
| May 11, 2015 | UK Print Book Sales Fall As Ebooks Rise | Although U.S. print sales have been steady, the UK Publishers Association is reporting a very interesting trend. Generally, print revenues dropped 5 percent to £2.7 billion and ebook revenues rose by 11 percent to £563 million. While ebooks... |
| Apr 8, 2015 | [Updated] Ancestry.com Employees Caught Throwing Away Thousands Of Records They Were Supposed To Be Archiving For The US Government | [Update: Amy Rubenstein of Ancestry.com has pointed out a few inaccuracies within this post and I have corrected information as needed. Some claims made are still open for debate, so rather than strike statements that are less than wholly r... |
| Mar 30, 2015 | Publishers Actively Monitoring Testing Students' Social Media Posts For Possible Cheating | Major corporations are actively monitoring social media during standardized tests. This is being done to “protect” the “integrity” of test questions and answers. None of this is particularly surprising, other than the fact that a member of ... |
| Mar 3, 2015 | Publisher Revenues Down As Ebook Buying Slows | Publishing conglomerates Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster are facing tough times this quarter as ebook sales fell and total profit dropped 5.6% at S&S and approximately 12% for RPH. The potential culprits? A lack of blockbu... |
| Jan 29, 2015 | You Don't Own What You Bought: Drone Maker Updates Firmware On All Drones To Stop Any Flights In DC | You may have heard the news recently about how a drunk employee of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (can’t make this crap up) accidentally flew a DJI Phantom II drone onto White House property, leading to a general collective fre... |
| Jan 28, 2015 | Tesco Exits E-Books, Transfers Blinkbox Books Customers To Rakuten’s Kobo | Some closure in the ongoing story of retail giant Tesco offloading its digital content effort blinkbox . Assets from blinkbox Books — specifically customer accounts and existing e-book libraries — are being picked up by Kobo, the e-book div... |
| Jan 27, 2015 | Nielsen Shows Kindle Unlimited Users Buy More Books | Amazon has been unsurprisingly reticent about sharing data about their Kindle Unlimited program, a subscription system that lets you download ostensibly free ebooks, mostly from Indie authors. Nielsen research is showing that users who subs... |
| Dec 12, 2014 | Analysts Claim Teens Still Prefer Print Books | In a flawed bit of analysis, Nielsen researchers are claiming that e-book adoption is slow among teens, an interesting finding if it were actually true.
“While 20% of teens [are] purchasing e-books, 25% of 30–44 year olds and 23% of 18–29 y... |
| Dec 5, 2014 | Kindle Needs A “Subscribe To Author” Button | When Amazon launched the Kindle Unlimited service last July, the idea was that popular indie authors could use the service as a way to gather royalties and raise their author profiles in tandem. The all-you-can-eat reading service was suppo... |
| Nov 23, 2014 | eBooks Could Finally Inch Past Print In 2018 | PricewaterhouseCoopers analysts are predicting (again) that ebooks could soon edge out print as publishers’ most lucrative products. What does this mean? Essentially that a ebook popularity and pricing stabilizes, users will spend more on b... |
| Nov 13, 2014 | Amazon And Hachette Bury The Hatchet — It's Just Not Clear In Whom | For the past few months, we’ve been following the whole Amazon / Hachette contract dispute that was full of ridiculous misinformation and economic ignorance. It was interesting to see such a fight play out in public, though it was also a re... |
| Oct 30, 2014 | Spain Passes Copyright Law; Demands Payment For Snippets And Linking To Infringing Content | Apparently ignoring just how badly this worked out for publishers in Germany, the Spanish Parliament has passed a law to fine aggregators and search engines for using snippets or linking to infringing content. As plenty of folks have descri... |
| Oct 24, 2014 | Adobe Discovers Encryption, Cuts Back On Its eBook Snooping A Bit | The whole DRM for ebooks effort is still pretty braindead all around. It’s amazing to me that everyone hasn’t realized what the music industry figured out years ago (after many earlier years of kicking and screaming): DRM doesn’t help the c... |
| Oct 23, 2014 | German Publishers Grant Google A 'Free License' Google Never Needed To Post News Snippets | Remember earlier this year when German newspaper publishers, led by rights management firm VG Media, demanded Google pay them a massive amount of money (11% of all ad revenue on any page linking to their works) for having the gall to send t... |
| Oct 8, 2014 | Adobe's Half-Assed Response To Spying On All Your eBooks | Yesterday, we mentioned the reports kicked off by Nate Hoffelder’s research that Adobe was spying on your ebook reading efforts and (even worse) sending the details as unencrypted plaintext. Adobe took its sweet time, but finally responded ... |
| Oct 8, 2014 | Erotica Publisher Sues Blogger For Exposing Its Financial Problems | “Erotic romance” publisher Ellora’s Cave doesn’t like the way a certain writer has portrayed its business woes. Rather than attempt to address the theories advanced by Jane Litte at Dear Author, Ellora’s Cave has decided to sue her for defa... |
| Oct 7, 2014 | Is Adobe's Ebook Reader Spying On What You Read — And What You Have On Your Computer? | Ebooks have many advantages, but as Techdirt has reported in the past, there are dangers too, particularly in a world of devices routinely connected to the Net. Back in 2010, we wrote about how Amazon was remotely uploading information abou... |
| Oct 7, 2014 | Adobe’s e-book reader sends your reading logs back to Adobe—in plain text [Updated] | Adobe even logs what you read in Digital Editions' instruction manual. reader comments 124 with 89 posters participating, including story author
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| Oct 3, 2014 | Amazon Launches WriteOn To Compete Against Crowd-Writing Sites Like Wattpad | Amazon has launched a crowd-editing and -writing service called WriteOn into private beta. In an announcement on the Kindle Author Forums, the company said that the site would act as a “community where readers and writers come together arou... |
| Sep 22, 2014 | Amazon Looking To The Wisdom Of Crowds To Find New Authors | According to a Kindle Direct Publishing forum user, Amazon is quietly rolling out a way to find diamonds in the proverbial publishing rough. The unnamed project would bring a crowd approach to the acquisition of new titles using a voting sy... |
| Sep 16, 2014 | Researchers Create A Kindle eBook That Can Hack Your Amazon Account | A fairly nasty flaw – the ability to run a script in the title text of an eBook – could compromise the security of your Amazon account. The flaw, which reappeared recently after being patched in October, allows hackers to embed programs rig... |
| Aug 20, 2014 | Delaware Passes Law Granting Residents The Right To Pass On Digital Goods To Their Heirs | As rights holders have made clear time and time again, your digital purchases are never truly yours. If someone decides to shut down a service, it’s likely your purchases will vanish into the ether along with the service itself. If you want... |
| Aug 19, 2014 | Barnes & Noble to start selling new Samsung Nook for $179 tomorrow, report says | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Barnes & Noble will begin selling its new Samsung-built Nook tomorrow in its chain of retail stores immediately after the device is... |
| Aug 15, 2014 | Amazon doubles the storage on its Kindle Paperwhite e-reader | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Fans of Amazon e-reader the Kindle Paperwhite probably won’t be getting a device update in the near future, but the company is upgradin... |
| Aug 15, 2014 | Amazon Doubles The Storage Of The Existing Kindle Paperwhite | Amazon hasn’t introduced a splashy Kindle update this year, but the company did confirm to TechCrunch it has increased storage on its devices from 2GB to 4GB (of which a portion is dedicated to system software), meaning those who purchased ... |
| Aug 1, 2014 | DRM Performs Another Miracle, Turns Purchased Childrens Books Into Nothing At All | An anonymous Techdirt reader sends in the now-unsurprising news that another publisher and its DRM are declaring customers’ purchased e-goods null and void. This time it’s Scholastic, publisher of many youth and teen titles, as well as the ... |
| Jul 22, 2014 | Transport For London Kills Off Fan-Made Device Wallpapers Based On Its Seat Patterns | Here’s copyright once again playing the thug role because rights must be enforced and the subsequent harm, etc. and so forth until things are broken and people are angry and in the end, the “victor” is able to walk away from a battle not wo... |
| Jul 9, 2014 | Xiaomi is about to take on the world: Best of the Web | One of the new consumer electronics vendors to emerge in China is a company called Xiaomi. Having conquered China, the company is gearing up to take on the world.
Brad Stone at BusinessWeektakes a look at this rapidly emerging tech giant:
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| Jun 17, 2014 | Oyster Brings Its Netflix For Books To Android | New York-based startup Oyster just released its reading app for Android devices — the app works on both phones and tablets, such as the Nexus 7 or Kindle Fire.
As a reminder, Oyster is an unlimited subscription service for ebooks. For $9.95... |
| Mar 27, 2014 | Sony Just Launched The Most Boring Product In The World | Meet the Digital Paper, Sony’s latest e-ink slate. It’s part iPad, part e-reader, and must be made out of moon rocks. It’s $1,100 and will be available in the States this May. But you’re not going to buy it.
The 13.3-inch “letter size” Digi... |
| Feb 25, 2014 | Self-Pub Platform Autharium Issues Bogus DMCA Notice In Hopes Of Whitewashing Its Past | Update: An Autharium representative reached out to the Passive Voice blog to admit that sending a DMCA takedown was a “mistake”. It’s not clear whether this means that it was done in error, or that they’ve acknowledged their attempted abuse... |
| Feb 21, 2014 | Visionect Is A Low-Cost Platform For Building E-Paper Applications | Building hardware projects has become immensely simpler thanks to Arduino and Raspberry Pi. But Visionect scratches a far more-intersting itch: e-paper interface design.
At its core the device is a very simple cased or uncased e-ink reader.... |
| Feb 15, 2014 | Tim Cushing's Subjectively Awesome Stuff Of No Particular Timeframe | Our weekly Awesome Stuff post generally deals with interesting and/or useful new products currently being crowdfunded. This week’s post will be a little different (actually, entirely different) as I was tapped to fill in for Mike and, unlik... |
| Feb 4, 2014 | Adobe Releases New DRM For eBooks, Plans To Screw Over Anyone Using Old DRM | In the grand lexicon of digital economies, DRM is quickly becoming, ironically, a four-letter word. Each attempt at locking down products in this manner is one more lesson in the futility of the entire effort, with legitimate customers beco... |
| Jan 30, 2014 | University Yanks Professor's Email Access After He Criticizes School Chancellor, Compares His Statements To School Shootings | American universities frequently have an uneasy relationship with the First Amendment. For institutions that are supposedly broadening the horizons of their students, they sure seem to spend a lot of time ensuring they are “protected” from ... |
| Jan 14, 2014 | Oyster Raises $14 Million To Build A Comprehensive Netflix For Books | New York-based startup Oyster just announced a new funding round, according to the New York Times. New investor Highland Capital Partners is leading the round, with existing investor Founders Fund also participating.
As a reminder, Oyster i... |
| Dec 16, 2013 | With $5.3M In Funding, Entitle Launches E-Book Service Emphasizing Ownership And Big Titles | In the past few months, we’ve seen the launch of several e-book subscription services using a Netflix-style pricing model, where users pay a monthly fee and get access to any title in the catalog. A new service called Entitle is going in a ... |
| Nov 19, 2013 | French Gov't Rejects Plan To Tax DRM eBooks More Than Non-DRM eBooks | For a moment, it looked as though France might utilize its tax system to make a point about how much DRM devalues electronic goods. A few months ago, an initiative surfaced seeking to amend tax laws in order to hit DRM-laced ebooks with a h... |
| Nov 19, 2013 | Google Announces More Child Porn Blocking Efforts While David Cameron Offers To Throw The GCHQ At The Problem | Over the weekend, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt wrote an editorial touting the search engine’s “new” efforts to battle child porn. It appeared in, of all places, the Daily Mail, presumably so the paper could write a self-congratula... |
| Nov 19, 2013 | Manufacturing Giant Foxconn Is Moving Into The Hardware Accelerator Game | Foxconn, the gargantuan manufacturer of electronics, is experimenting in the hardware accelerator market by turning an underused Nokia campus in Beijing into its first small business outreach center. The plan, as described by Foxconn Chief ... |
| Oct 10, 2013 | YouTube Tells User He Can Directly Resolve Copyright Claim By Contacting Himself | When bots handle copyright enforcement, things are sometimes going to get screwed up. YouTube’s various algorithms do a lot of heavy lifting, sorting through the thousands of hours of video being uploaded every minute. Sooner or later, the ... |
| Sep 26, 2013 | Indie Bookstores Aren’t Dead Yet | Something magical is happening: Indie bookstores are coming back for a few very interesting reasons. While the rise of digital books has definitely put a dent into the fortunes of bookstores – you can read all about it at your local Borders... |
| Jul 30, 2013 | Writer of 'Daredevil' Comics: Equating Piracy With Lost Sales Is 'Baloney' | It’s been pointed out here on multiple occasions that one pirated item does not equal one lost sale. It’s a fallacy various rights holders have used for years in order to exaggerate losses (helpful when asking the government to write legisl... |
| Jul 25, 2013 | Amazon’s Q2 Disappoints, Sales Up 22 Percent To $15.7B, Net Loss Of $7M | Amazon just reported second-quarter earnings, with sales increasing 22 percent to $15.7 billion in the second quarter, compared with $12.83 billion in second quarter 2012. Net loss was $7 million in the second quarter, or $0.02 per diluted ... |
| Jul 25, 2013 | How To Thwart Broad Microsoft Patent App Using Microsoft's Own Prior Art In Just 15 Minutes | If you work in the software industry, patents are obviously a huge issue. Nowhere is the abuse of patents more common than in this field, where broadly written claims covering obvious “methods” are the rule, rather than the exception. |
| Jul 23, 2013 | Author Solutions' Rep: People Complaining About Our Scammy 'Services' Are Engaged In 'Racketeering' | Before we get into this unintentionally hilarious response from an Author Solutions’ rep (via Nate Hoffelder), we’ll need a little background on the company itself. |
| Jun 11, 2013 | Barnes & Noble Kills Mac And PC Dedicated Nook Apps, Looks Like Part Of Larger Strategy Shift | Barnes & Noble appears to be distancing itself and its products from the e-reader and e-book category, and trying to move into more of a role as a maker of low-cost tablets. The shift is ongoing and subtle, but a recent development seem... |
| May 13, 2013 | Amazon buys Samsung’s Liquavista screen-tech company, potentially for color Kindle | Updated 10:18 a.m. Pacific time: Amazon has confirmed the purchase
Amazon’s Kindle Fire is in glorious living color, but its original and still-strong-selling Kindle and cousins, the Kindle Paperwhite family, are still irritatingly stuck in... |
| May 13, 2013 | Amazon buys Samsung’s Liquavista screen-tech company, potentially for color Kindle | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
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Amazon’s Kindle Fire is in glorious living color, but its original a... |
| Apr 8, 2013 | Apple Threatens To Kick Out Comic Book App Over 'Adult' Content, Forcing Publisher To Pull 40% Of Its 4,000 Titles | Apple’s worked very hard cultivating its walled garden and it isn’t going to let a bunch of creators ruin its pristine utopia with nudity, depictions of sweatshops, nudity (again), swearing, topical commentary, competitive apps and the anci... |
| Mar 18, 2013 | DRM Strikes Again: Digital Comics Distributor JManga Closing Down… And Deleting Everyone's Purchases | DRM is rearing its malformed head again and biting the hands that feed it. Rather than simply making an otherwise useful product useless unless requirements x, y and z are met, this time DRM is issuing a clawback on purchased rented digital... |
| Jan 28, 2013 | School District Dumps $2 Million 'Online Textbook' Program After Discovering Some Students Can't Afford Broadband | The Digital Reader recently posted an article detailing a Virginia school district's problems with digital textbooks. Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is making the switch back to paper textbooks, to the tune of $2 million, after runnin... |
| Jan 24, 2013 | Canadian Kindle Owners Forced To Leave American Kindle Content & Features Behind | Something strange and potentially awful is happening to Amazon's users in various locations outside the US. Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader reports that Amazon's Canadian Kindle customers are being locked out of purchasing ebooks throu... |
| Jan 17, 2013 | 'Quantum Copyright:' At What Point Does A Legal Copy Become Infringement? | Laws in general aren’t known for their clarity, hence the need for lawyers to rack up billable hours searching for loopholes to exploit or to try to bend them to fit the case at hand. Copyright laws, while less tangled than the infamous “Pa... |
| Dec 31, 2012 | Apple Partners With Local Publishers To Launch EBook Service In Japan | Apple will launch an ebook service in Japan fueled with content from top local publishers, according to Japanese financial publication Nikkei (via The Digital Reader).
Apple will begin selling Japanese language ebooks later this month for r... |
| Dec 20, 2012 | The Fastest Growing Emerging Economies Are Also Those With The Weakest IP Laws | Every time the major players in the copyright industries kick off another push for more legislation, enforcement or protection, they make grandiose claims about how much IP-intensive industries contribute to the economy. “Millions of jobs g... |
| Dec 17, 2012 | Buy Your Kindle At Waterstones? You're Now Locked Into One Screensaver… The Waterstones Logo | There’s no better way to treat your paying customers than by taking away some functionality. Most people would consider the previous statement to be completely full of shit, but when you look at it from the perspective of a proud bookstore ... |
