This week, ebook lovers got yet another reminder of why DRM (Digital Rights Management) is terrible for ebooks. While attending a library conference in Singapore,…
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Looks like it’s mostly bug fixes and possibly some improvements in font management. Download @ http://www.adobe.com/products/digital-editions/download.html.
I’ve previously blogged about a “new” German DRM scheme to change the text of a book each time it’s copied. Well, Cory Doctorow’s got something…
In essence, when you purchase a copy of the book, it has the full and complete book. When you share the book with anyone else,…
…Bookish is a great example of this. Bookish took two years to launch and was started by Penguin Publishing as a portal to share books.…
On April 25, 2012, Tor Books UK announced that it was making all of its ebook list DRM-free. There’s still a lot of debate and…
As usual, I’ll let Cory speak for himself. The internet is important, but the copyright wars treat it as a triviality: like cable TV 2.0;…
“DRM is just allowing someone to exercise their poor business judgement.” —Rob Pegoraro on This Week in Law episode 203
The manga site JManga is shutting down. Oh, and they don’t allow you to download the content you “purchased”. According to their FAQ: Is there…
Cory Doctorow’s latest article in The Guardian addresses the idea of putting DRM in HTML5. Here however is what I find to be the most…