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Short Takes On The News: Some Tech, Some Scandal And Outrage, And Some Law

11 Nov

CNET has a positive review of a new reader for Google Books that is not from Google. Called GooReader, the product is described as “is a desktop application that allows you to read Google Books online and offline, add Bookmarks,…

 

Browsing On A Sunday Afternoon – Copyright and Captcha

06 Nov

Here are a few things to note on a Sunday afternoon. One is an article in CNET where Jennifer Pariser, RIAA senior vice president of litigation complained that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) may need overhaul as the courts…

 

When e-Books Are Revised

03 Oct

Two stories popped up recently, one from Stephan Shankland via CNET and one from Carol Saller in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Both dealt with the mechanisms of correcting e-books for typos and such. Shankland’s example concerned the Kindle version…