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TeleRead calls for well-stocked national digital libraries in the United States and elsewhere. TeleRead's moderator is David Rothman (dr@teleread.org).

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K-12-helpful apps for the iPhone?including BookShelf. Audiobook-PDF possibilities as well?

Posted Tuesday July 22, 2008, 11:59 pm, Over one day old

Tantor offers both audio CDs and MP3 CDs, so I’m assuming it wouldn’t be that big a hassle to transfer the books to the iPhone via iTunes (no mention of DRM). | | One big K-12 advantage of the iPhone over the Kindle: Kids love color screens.

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TechCrunch?s $200 Web tablet: A way for e-books to take off?

Posted Tuesday July 22, 2008, 11:59 pm, Over one day old

Just two months or so from now. | | Built around Firefox | | The real app will be Firefox, but wouldn’t it be great if TC’s Michael Arrington could talk the browser people into doing a decent e-book act—with ePub as the featured format?

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iPhone/Touch roundup: WordPress app, NetNewswire, Salon on eReader, protective case and the bathtub trick

Posted Tuesday July 22, 2008, 11:59 pm, Over one day old

Also, the app is free and will let you insert photos. Detail: I don’t know if OtterBox is advertising the Touch version with the right photo. | | –As for waterproofing, I suspect the plastic bag trick will work just fine in the bathtub and let you read better than with E Ink.

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Esquire?s E Ink cover stirs eco controversy

Posted Tuesday July 22, 2008, 11:59 pm, Over one day old

The batteries and the display case are manufactured and put together in China. The E Ink display will run out of power in 90 days. | | Still a plus, as I see it | | That said, I’m glad Esquire is diong the Ford-sponsored cover, for the September issue, if it calls attention to the technology.

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ePub reader widget for Opera: Browsers to do e-books in a big way in time? New Web-based ePub reader debuts separately

Posted Tuesday July 22, 2008, 11:59 pm, Over one day old

There is already the third-party OpenBerg Lector plug-in for Firefox. | | Meanwhile TeleBlog contributor Liza Daley has released the Web-based Bookworm ePub reader, which handles stylesheets and images—handy for technical books.

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DRM-related poll: How many devices do you use to read e-books?

Posted Thursday May 22, 2008, 9:10 pm, Over one day old

| | | | How many devices do you use to read e-books? One of the biggest challenges of DRM is the that e-books are often licensed for use on just a limited number of devices—a real issue for me as a Mobipocket user. Mobipocket.com lets me register a mere four devices.

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Smashwords: Self-publishing site for E authors

Posted Thursday May 22, 2008, 9:10 pm, Over one day old

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Dead-tree books and the energy crisis: Opportunity for e-books?

Posted Thursday May 22, 2008, 9:10 pm, Over one day old

As if to confirm a Mike Cane post on p-books and the energy crisis, and the E alternative, publisher-marketer Noel Griese posted the following to the Self-publishing list on Thursday: | | "I sold six skids—13,500 books—today.

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?Offline Wikipedia Reader for iRex iLiad?

Posted Thursday May 22, 2008, 9:10 pm, Over one day old

Read Wikipedia without being at the mercy of WiFi connections! See Shimoni Mony’s blog. | |You’ll need a 4G memory card. More at Slashdot and MobileRead.|

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1 cent for a p-book, $3.99 for ?shipping? and $0 to author Kim Robinson, alas: DRM as a sales toxin

Posted Thursday May 22, 2008, 9:10 pm, Over one day old

Same at the Amazon-owned Mobipocket store. | | But Bantam Books and/or Robinson apparently insist that FW sell only a "protected" version. Just how many books would you like to rent while supposedly "buying" them?

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