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- May 4th is the International Day Against DRM
  
  1141 readersIt’s just over 1 month until the third annual Day Against DRM. Will you join the protest? What is DRM? Well, companies like Amazon and Apple will tell you that DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. However, since it is designed to restrict th...
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  2207 readers I don’t put Digital Rights Management (DRM) software on the ebooks I sell; it doesn’t work, so why bother? So I’ve never had an issue with Defective by Design and their campaign against DRM. To be sure, our opinions differ, DbD essentially objecting to DRM on a philosophical level, and me on a practical level,
- Episode 42 – Learning About eBooks
  
  2373 readersEpisode 42 - Learning About eBooks News: Sony planning new devices (light on details) KOBO planning HTML5 reading app O’Reilly’s Todd Sattersten experiment the App-pocalypse occurred — Kindle (Newspapers and magazines now supported), Kobo, Nook, NookKids, Google Books (removed, then re-added) Defective By Design pushing “defectivebydesign” and “drm-infested” tags on Amazon books OSX Lion has “text/richtext to ePub” feature Discussion Learning about eBooks Referenced blog
- Episode 42 – Learning About eBooks
  
  196 readersEpisode 42 - Learning About eBooks News: Sony planning new devices (light on details) KOBO planning HTML5 reading app O’Reilly’s Todd Sattersten experiment the App-pocalypse occurred — Kindle (Newspapers and magazines now supported), Kobo, Nook, NookKids, Google Books (removed, then re-added) Defective By Design pushing “defectivebydesign” and “drm-infested” tags on Amazon books OSX Lion has “text/richtext to ePub” feature Discussion Learning about eBooks Referenced blog
- Episode 42 – Learning About eBooks
  
  477 readersEpisode 42 - Learning About eBooks News: Sony planning new devices (light on details) KOBO planning HTML5 reading app O’Reilly’s Todd Sattersten experiment the App-pocalypse occurred — Kindle (Newspapers and magazines now supported), Kobo, Nook, NookKids, Google Books (removed, then re-added) Defective By Design pushing “defectivebydesign” and “drm-infested” tags on Amazon books OSX Lion has “text/richtext to ePub” feature Discussion Learning about eBooks Referenced blog
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  872 readers The 2012 Olympics are mere hours away and the news apps are still coming out of the workshop. Agence France-Presse has just pulled the dustcover off of an up-to-the-minute news app which was made just for the 2012 Olympics in London. This free app includes coverage in both English and French of the latest
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  2426 readersPenguin India has just launched its first app. Book-lovers and publishing aficionados can now get up-to-date on all of Penguins current titles, new releases, as well as excerpts of titles published by Penguin India. You can get an early look into the upcoming Penguin India titles in the “Coming Soon” tab, and you can read up
- Librarians against DRM
  
  1391 readersFrom Defective by Design: In 2008, the DRM Elimination Crew stood on the steps of the Boston Public Library (BPL) and demanded that they Kick DRM Out (1, 2). The DRM technology got into the BPL through a contract with the company OverDrive, who uses DRM (on most titles) to control how and when people
- Wikipedia Is Going Dark To Protest Legislation Against Piracy
  
  1446 readersWikipedia is joining other websites in a protest against a bill that is currently being heard in Congress — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) which is being heard in the House of Representatives and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) which is currently up for vote in the Senate. As part of the protest, the site will
- Pinball London Produces First Feature Film to Debut on iPad
  
  816 readersBy Roger Tagholm LONDON: London independent film producer Pinball London has just become the first company to premiere a film on the iPad – and in so doing, believes it may have created a new template for many other producers of content. Pinball London’s atmospheric, black-and-white long feature romantic drama The Silver Goat was shot in London