arstechnica.com - 2/3/2009
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I was pitched headfirst into the world of e-books in 2002 when I took a job with Palm Digital Media. The company, originally called Peanut Press, was founded in 1998 with a simple plan: publish books in electronic form. As it turns out, that simple plan leads directly into a ...
arstechnica.com - 2/6/2009
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arstechnica.com —
I was pitched headfirst into the world of
e-books in 2002 when I took a job with
Palm Digital Media. The company, originally called Peanut Press, was founded in 1998 with a simple plan: publish books in electronic form. As it turns out, that simple ...
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The once and future e-book: on reading in the digital age
theappleblog.com - 1/29/2009
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So you know the warm and fuzzy feeling
you get all over when you’re in the Apple
Store to actually make that Mac purchase? It’s as if nothing could bring you down from that geek-high. Then you get the Best Buy style protection plan sales pitch. But ...
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.Mac is .Annoying
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Ex-eReader employee on the past and future of e-books
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
... Ars Technica today has a great (and long—it goes on for seven pages) feature editorial about the past and future of e-books by Ars columnist John Siracusa. Siracusa, who took a job at the company that would eventually become eReader back when it was still called Palm Digital Media, has some fascinating insights and opinions about how e-books got started, what they are now, and what they might become. ...
Comprehensive excoriation of ebook stupidity
Boing Boing —
... of the days was "DRM everywhere," or, just as likely, "no digital distribution at all."
This position is even more insane once you understand how the traditional, non-digital publishing business works. As in the music and movie industries, there's the usual, shockingly small cut given to the actual content creators, plus the physical mechanism of manufacturing and distributing the products. In the case of books, there's an extra dose of nonsense layered on top.
The once and future e-book: on reading in the digital age
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