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Adobe Digital Edition 2.0.1 now available

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Looks like it’s mostly bug fixes and possibly some improvements in font management. Download @ http://www.adobe.com/products/digital-editions/download.html.

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Lost in Translation

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Michael Sauers

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…

ebooks

An interesting new take on eBook DRM

Posted on June 15, 2013 by Michael Sauers

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,…

ebooks

Permission Based Publishing: The New York Publishing Model (and Why It Doesn’t Work)

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Michael Sauers

…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.…

ebooks

One Year Later, the Results of Tor Books UK Going DRM-Free

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Michael Sauers

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…

Internet

Copyright wars are damaging the health of the internet

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Michael Sauers

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;…

Tech

Great DRM quote

Posted on March 28, 2013March 28, 2013 by Michael Sauers

“DRM is just allowing someone to exercise their poor business judgement.” —Rob Pegoraro on This Week in Law episode 203

Internet

DRM once again harms customers

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Michael Sauers

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…

Politics & Law

What Cory Doctorow wishes Tim Berners-Lee understood about DRM

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Michael Sauers

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…

Libraries

Giving Them What They Should Want: In moving forward with e-books, is Douglas County really moving backward?

Posted on March 6, 2013March 6, 2013 by Michael Sauers

But at this moment in nascent e-book history, is “ownership” really so vital? Is it really practical for public libraries to try to reform the…

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