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Category Archives: TeleRead
E-mail us your comments if they don’t show up: Anti-spam Dobes at work
In their zeal, our anti-spam Dobermanns sometimes gobble up valuable comments from TeleRead community members, so please e-mail us yours if they don’t show up. Often we can retrieve ‘em from the Dobes’ stomachs.
Sometimes the server may just burp.That’s what apparently happened today, and several legit comments might have gotten lost.
These problems are [...] Continue reading
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Washington vs. your e-book privacy
"Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require Internet service providers to store information about users for at least two years." – Media Post Publications.
The TeleRead take: Sure enough, RIAA and some other copyright zealots loves this.
Love that RIAA. The all-purpose villain, eh? Oh, and by the way, the scuttlebutt is that the Dems [...] Continue reading
Good Company Culture Comes in Small Packages
Small publishers’ culture of experimentation-by-necessity gives them a leg up on the large publishing “dinosaurs.” Continue reading
TeleRead blog to move to home page and use Webhead Design for hosting: Check your RSS feeds next week
Makes sense, doesn’t it? Move the TeleRead blog—the most popular part of the TeleRead site—to the home page at teleread.org. (Just to clarify a bit: this page’s address will become teleread.org, it will no longer be necessary to add the /blog to the end of the address. All calls to www.teleread.org/blog will be re-directed to [...] Continue reading
Beastly prediction: Digital fascism possible in the U.S. if Obama broadband plan happens
Net-hater Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur, warns that Barack Obama’s broadband plan could lead to digital fascism on the U.S.
“Imagine the FDR-baiting, Hitler-loving Father Charles Coughlin, equipped with his ‘personalized’ YouTube channel, able, at a click of a button, to distribute his racist message to the suffering masses,” Keen writes [...] Continue reading
Used books blamed in NYT for slump: Meat for Novelists, Inc.? But how about better solutions than resale fees?
“Don’t blame” carnage in the book industry “on the recession or any of the usual suspects, including increased competition for the reader’s time or diminished attention spans,” says David Streitfeld, a New Yok Time staff writer, in an opinion piece. “What’s undermining the book industry is not the absence of casual readers but the [...] Continue reading
Twittered: Personal odds and ends, TeleRead e-book news and ‘Solomon Scandals’ info via new feed
I’ve got Skype, I’ve got Yahoo Messenger, I follow RSS feeds, various online aggregators, you name it. So Twitter wasn’t that high on my list.
Twitter, though, is very high on other people’s, and maybe I can find time if I cut back a little on RSS feed-watching. So now you can follow me via [...] Continue reading
Write For TeleRead and get fame and other stuff
We’ve had a few reader posts in response to my earlier requests, but David and I would really like more. It’s neat to see our readers’ names on a post, instead of just in a Comment.
Speaking of Comments, next time you decide to post a long comment why not try to turn it into [...] Continue reading
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Write for TeleRead – enjoy fame and other stuff
Once again I’m asking for reader contributions. We’ve had a few and let’s try to get some more. I think it’s really neat to see our readers’ names on the front page, not just in the Comments section. If you have a long comment on a post, before commenting give it a thought and see [...] Continue reading
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Memo II to MIT Press: Your author wants an e-book edition of his Turing novel
Sure though, comp-sci professor Christos H. Papadimitriou, author of Turing (A Novel about Computation), wants the MIT Press to publish an e-book version. That’s the professor in the photo below.
He wrote me: "Obviously I’d love to see this. Let’s see how they react to the idea."
Currently, the only versions of his book online are [...] Continue reading