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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Beware. If you install Pepper software on your “Give One Get One” OLPC machine, you may make it useless. Too bad. Pepper had cooked up an interesting suite of apps, including Mobipocket, but that was for a prototype of the laptop.|
Read Warning: Don?t install Pepper software on your OLPC machine (Links)
Speaking of openness, AP reports: | | “Google, the Internet’s leader in search and advertising, says the process it developed and is using for scanning the majority of the books in Book Search is proprietary.
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Read ?Google?s book search slowly turns the pages??while the public domain lock-up controversy rages on (Links)
As an entrepreneur, this is the constant joy and lament. | | In the interest of getting past both hype and disdain, we should all take a minute to speculate about what Web 2.0 means for books. | | Some might say we missed the boat, but let’s be more hopeful than that.
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Read Books online: A stern warning, apropos of the Kindle dilemma (Links)
Read If E?s the new large print, maybe schools need to play it up more for problem readers (Links)
Sign up here for TOR’s freebie program. | | In the area of nonfiction, the Encyclopedia Britannica 2008 Book of the Year: The World in 2007 is among the latest offerings of the ad-supported Wowio service, unfortunately available only to people in the States for the moment.
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Read Just the gift for Mother?s Day? E-freebies of ?Mothers & Other Monsters? and other books?also available in P (Links)
Blogs, Twitter, MySpace and Facebook are different tools, use them in different ways. | | Excellent point! How many times have you come across an author’s Web site that has no personality and lacks the critical attributes of a social network-like page? | | | | #4.
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Read Fourteen tips for author Web sites (Links)
A new WordPress plug-in will soon let readers instantly scan for a blog’s other entries on the same topic or in the same context. It’s a bit like Sphere. Just how accurate and helpful could such capabilities be?
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Read E-book possibilities for new WordPress feature that scans for similar posts? (Links)
Just be aware that if you live in the United States, you have an interest in the civil liberties debates now happening in D.C. | | Other threats: Might it be possible that the FBI would request authority to scan Gmail and similar services?
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Read Will the FBI monitor your e-book reading on the Kindle and other machines SOMEDAY? Or help censor you? (Links)
Read Library books you can KEEP forever?and other ideas to help public libraries survive the digital era (Links)
One risk is that the bill might be tucked into legislation that didn’t seem so helpful. | | Arts Technica ’s Nate Andersen has the lowdown. | | Technorati Tags: New Orphaned Works Act, Patric Leahy, Howrad Berman |
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Read Boost for Gutenberg-style pub domain sites? ?New Orphaned Works Act would limit copyright liability? (Links)
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