If the Authors Guild hates libraries it hates electronic libraries even more. We know about the suit against the HathiTrust, which is the outgrowth of litigation against Google for scanning books without permission, assuming permission is necessary. No court has…
Posts Tagged ‘Kindle’
Yale Law Journal Joins the Ranks of Major Law Journals Issuing eBook Editions Published by Quid Pro Books
14
Nov
Yale Law Journal has joined Standford Law Review and Harvard Law Review in making available issues in multiple eBook formats published by Quid Pro Books. Starting with vol. 121, no. 1, dated October 2011, YLJ is now available for Kindle…
Google Books Comes To The UK
07
Oct
Cheap tablets from competitors may have had one effect on Google. Amazon has released the Kindle Fire as a convenient front end to its massive store with expectations that the Fire will be sold globally. Google Books was never available…
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…
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…
First Thoughts On The Kindle Fire
28
Sep
Pundits are calling Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet a serious contender to the Apple iPad. I agree that it is a contender, but not because it matches the amenities that Apple offers in their product. The basics of the Kindle…
Textbook Rental Comes To The Kindle
18
Jul
The promise of electronic textbooks has been with us for awhile. Anyone remember the competing platforms of Folio on Lexis and Premise on West? Both companies sold electronic versions of their casebooks in the 1990s, though they were heavily drenched…
Google Gets Into The eBook Reader Game
12
Jul
Google has announced a eBook reader that integrates with Google books and the Google Bookstore. It is the iriver Story HD. The HD part refers to its screen resolution of 1024 by 768. The Kindle, in comparison, is 800 by…
