In a blog post by Julie Crisp of Tor Books UK, we get a progress report on the decision to drop DRM from their e-books. The big take-aways are: There was no increase in piracy of their books from removing … Continue reading
Recently a Norwegian Kindle owner named Linn suddenly found her Kindle had been wiped clean of all the books she had purchased from Amazon. Whether this was a simple mistake or yet another act of evilness is not the main … Continue reading
Gutenberg the Geek by Jeff Jarvis My rating: 5 of 5 stars This short book (more of an essay, really) was sold as an Amazon single. I got it because I have been thinking about the premise that seeing how … Continue reading
I recently finished reading Clayton Christensen’s classic work The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms To Fail, which I read on my Android phone using the Amazon Kindle app. I will probably post a review separately, but this … Continue reading
When you are looking at the issues around publishers, media companies, copyright, and DRM, you are looking at economics. As a former economics professor that is something I like to think about, and I believe there are some interesting implications … Continue reading
I genuinely love eBooks, to the point that I will rarely even think of buying anything else. Some people may regard that as heresy, and I understand the lure of physical books. When I was a boy I used to … Continue reading
