Episode 104 – Jim Dovey Special Guest Jim Dovey Digital Content Format Evangelist at Kobo. News Google Play on Nook HD & HD+ Microsoft buying Nook? Courier acquires FastPencil Hachette selling to libraries again The end of O’Reilly TOC Creative… Read More

(via www.shawnebell.com) c|net Australia has just put up an article “Tor Books: piracy not an issue despite lacking ebook DRM” that state what I and others have been preaching for years. From the article: “One year after Tor launched its… Read More

Tor Books… have now been selling their ebooks DRM free for a year, and in a statement have said that there has been no increase in ebook piracy in that year.  Note, no increase. Read more on Does DRM Have Read More

Last year Tor Books, an imprint of Macmillian that publishes science fiction and fantasy novels decided to remove the copyright protection DRM software from its eBooks. Recently, Julie Crisp…, the editorial director of the imprint, reflected on the decision Read More

Honestly, I hadn’t even heard about this until I woke up this morning and checked my phone, but apparently today—that’s Friday, May 3, 2013—is something of a holiday in the digital publishing community. It’s the fifth annual International Day Against… Read More

Julie Crisp writing in the TOR blog "Protecting our author's intellectual copyright will always be of a key concern to us and we have very stringent anti-piracy controls in place. But DRM-protected titles are still subject to piracy, and we… Read More

Piracy is the dirty word that companies like to throw around when it comes to digital rights management, or DRM. Many publishers and even retailers use DRM in an effort to avoid having their books stolen on the Internet. One… Read More

I am four months into my DRM-free year, and so far have spent just a fraction of my usual book budget. In my highest year—the year agency pricing came out, and I binged in preparation—I spent $1,300, for an average… Read More

If you missed TOC's first Author (R)evolution Day you missed a lot. Cory Doctorow kicked things off and more than 20 speakers followed with terrific presentations on marketing, audience development, choosing service providers, and my favorite topic, data. The room… Read More

Podcast: No Such Thing as Used E-Book (Publishers Weekly) Why do we keep making e-books like paper books? (Gizmodo) To save indies, publishers need to reconsider DRM (Dear Author) 10 Delicious Literary Beers to Drink While Reading (Flavorwire) Hugh Howey:… Read More

In the United States, the fight to get more access to e-books seems like a constant struggle. Fights over DRM, getting more e-books into libraries, and giving self-published authors the same credibility as traditionally published authors are just some of… Read More

For this third month of my DRM-free year, the big event was Read an E-Book Week. I have to admit, I was a little disappointed with the offerings. Most authors seemed to simply re-list whatever they had last year—some of… Read More

Episode 100 News Supreme Court rules against Wiley in first sale case Kobo’s work w/ ABA partnership Judge fast-tracks bookseller lawsuit against Amazon Amazon’s Little a imprint Amazon releases Send to Kindle for websites. Google ebook/game crossover Online now largest… Read More

Yesterday morning, we brought to your attention a rather unusual situation that had been taking place in the WH Smith e-retail store: Kobo e-books that were meant to be DRM-free had been listed on the WH Smith site as having… Read More