Category Archives: DRM

Copyfights of the night

It has been a busy couple of days for the battle between the forces of copyright and those who would infringe it. Here are three of the most happening stories:
You Can’t Keep a Good Wolverine Down
Or a bad or indifferent one, it would seem. Someone leaked an unfinished work print of the upcoming Wolverine prequel [...] Continue reading

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Parlons formats…

Deuxième vidéo mise en ligne du côté de Cap Digital. C’est Hadrien Gardeur (l’un des fondateurs de Feedbooks et membre de l’IDPF) qui nous parle des formats. Ne vous fier pas à sa jeunesse, c’est l’un des grands spécialistes sur… Continue reading

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La piste de l’authentification forte

L’authentification forte, une solution pour les offres légales? L’Atelier revient sur une expérimentation en cours dans le domaine des jeux vidéo : “Pour lancer une partie, l’utilisateur devra générer un mot de passe à usage unique, ou one-time password (OTP)…. Continue reading

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Yes, we want to OWN books

"Do we really want to own books?" asks the Exact Editions blog. "Do institutions really want to own books?"
Exact Editions is "agnostic" on the first question. I’m not in the least. The answer is an emphatic, "Yes," and I suspect that many and probably most paying customers feel the same way.
That is why serious [...] Continue reading

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Cory Doctorow: Authors Guild worrying about wrong thing

In a new column he has penned for the Guardian, Cory Doctorow suggests that the Authors Guild has “lost the plot” in their fight against the Kindle’s text-to-speech function.
After laying out why that function is not an infringement, or even if it is Amazon is the wrong one to complain about, Doctorow explains that [...] Continue reading

Posted in Amazon Kindle, Chris Meadows, DRM, Mobipocket, Uncategorized, amazon, doctorow, e-book technology, iPhone and iPod Touch, text to speech | Leave a comment

Below the fold: Feedbooks’ Hadrien Gardeur talks to Kat Meyer

Just in case you missed it over the weekend, check out The Digitizers—Hadrien Gardeur, Feedbooks cofounder, ePub advocate and Stanza ally, the latest in Kay Meyer’s Digitizer series. (Photo by Duncan Davidson.)
Also posted earlier: Book marketing tips: Use Librarything to find reviewers for your book, by Robert Nagle.
Coming today or tomorrow: A Q&A with [...] Continue reading

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Scribd piracy debate: Harry Potter, Ken Follett bestsellers among works ripped off

“Publishers and agents representing the authors J. K. Rowling and Ken Follett were battling last night to get free copies of their novels removed from a Californian website that claims to be the most popular literary site in the world.” – Times Online.
The TeleRead take: Time for Scribd to improve monitoring? In the other [...] Continue reading

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My ‘almost’ Kindle II buy—and a few words on reading lights for E Ink machines

I came dangerously close to buying a Kindle II  last week for $230—a price workable even with my budget and my unhappiness with the K-machine’s DRM. Owning the II would give me a chance to write about DRM in the most direct way, beyond using the Kindle app on my iPod Touch.
The seller said, truthfully [...] Continue reading

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Ficbot meets the Reader cop

I was sitting in one of the waiting areas at Toronto’s Union Station, waiting for the train to Montreal, when he approached me.
“Hello there,” he said with a pleasant nod. He sat down beside me, and I looked up from my Reader, noticing his eyes—blue, piercing—and his hair—black ringlets wafting adorably across well-chiseled [...] Continue reading

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FTC Digital Rights Management town hall meeting: summing up

I have had a day to think about what I saw at the FTC’s town hall meeting on Digital Rights Management yesterday, and what it might mean for the future of DRM. The conference fell into the classic “good news, bad news” scenario.
Unrealistic Expectations
The good news is that the FTC is now more [...] Continue reading

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