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We Seem to Be Doing OK
Screen shot from iTunes taken at 2:23 pm today; three of the books my colleagues Michael E. Cohen and Dennis Cohen wrote are in the iBooks Top Computers and Internet Paid Books. Thanks…
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Michael E. Cohen’s Take Control of TextExpander on MacVoices
My co-writer Michael E. Cohen got me using Smile Software’s TextExpander because not only does TextExpander make writing on my Mac easier, the iPad app TextExpander Touch makes writing on an iPad much,…
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Harper Collins Wants to Limit Library Circulation of Ebooks
Apparently because of Overdrive’s recent release of an ebook client for iPhones and iPad (read more about Overdrive and library ebooks here and here), Harper Collins has responded by announcing that new Harper…
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Public Library Ebooks and Overdrive
Michael Cohen, over at Tidbits, has written a piece about downloading a DRM protected ebook via his local public library. His library like mine uses technology and books provided by Overdrive, Inc. The books in question…
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Why Technology Fails to Stop Book Theft
Various forms of technology intended to control who could read books have failed. All of them have failed, and largely, for the same reasons. We have first the book curse, sometime called a…
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Baen Books Ebook CD-ROM Images
Here’s the host’s statement: The Baen CDs hosted here are freely-distributable disks provided to promote the sale of the books contained within. Baen allows these CDs to be distributed not simply to provide…
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iPad Books: Do They Transfer to iTunes from iPad?
According to Take Control‘s exceedingly savvy Tonya Engst on Twitter: According to iPad manual and my testing, ebooks downloaded from the iBookstore ON the iPad do not transfer to iTunes. Any confirmation? Work…
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Two Graphic Explanations of why DRM doesn’t work
DRM really doesn’t work; it doesn’t even slow down pirates, but it frustrates honest users, and programmers. Here are two clear explanations of why it doesn’t work to protect artists, creators and publishers.…
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Apple’s iPad Announcements
One of the slides Steve Jobs showed has this on it: iPad: Our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price. Starting at $499. I think that’s absolutely…