Sony is converting all their ebooks to the epub format starting today. Hooray for the epub standard. Not so fast. Here is the usual story of the number two market player embracing open standards as the market leader remains aloof. There is the fact that the DRM-option within an epub file is no option at [...]
The US Fed lowered interest rates to almost zero today, effectively making money and government bonds indistinguishable — goodbye to the power of monetary policy. The CBC is running a story today about the Ottawa library and ebooks. Overdive, mobipocket, and PDF ebooks are available for “lending”, effectively making library loans and book giveaways indistinguishable [...]
Jimmy Guterman at O’Reilly takes Penguin to task for not going free with their out-of-copyright classics. The point about using the medium to your advantage is well taken, but unless I am mistaken O’Reilly has yet to set up a torrent tracker for their content. Penguin didn’t have the stones to go free, but Guterman [...]