Was it really a year ago that I got up at the crack of dawn, stood in line at the local Apple store and left with my new favorite gadget, a 32G wifi-only iPad? The last 12 months have been an interesting period and I thought it would be fun to share the iPad lessons [...]
Entries from April 11th, 2011
RIP: Ebookwise-1150
April 11th, 2011 · 9 Comments · hardware news
Fictionwise quietly retired the world’s longest running e-reader some time in the last couple months. You can still buy ebooks, but the hardware is no longer listed. It’s a pity that they didn’t announce it because it truly deserved an obituary. I was about to pull my EBW-1150 out of the closet and do a [...]
Tags:ebookwise1150·rip
On Words & eBooks: What Does It Take?
April 11th, 2011 · 11 Comments · opinion
In past articles, I have spoken of the need for indie authors to use professional editors (see, e.g., On Words: Is the Correct Word Important?, Professional Editors: Publishers and Authors Need Them (Part 1), and Professional Editors: Publishers and Authors Need Them (Part 2)). Alas, there is always an excuse for not using them. A little more than [...]
Enhanced ebooks are dead – Evan Schnittman was mostly right
April 10th, 2011 · 7 Comments · opinion
The London Book Fair is going to begin tomorrow, and today there was a digital conference. One of the key topics at was enhanced ebooks. Specifically, Evan Schnittman, the managing director of Bloomsbury, is reported to have argued in his keynote that enhanced ebooks are dead. I’m waiting to hear back from him, and all [...]
Pardon the mess, folks
April 9th, 2011 · 2 Comments · blog maintenance
The Digital reader is undergoing a little maintenance at the moment. If you notice something weire, don’t worry. i’m working on it. But if a 6′ tall duck walks by, please let her know I want to get down.
Can we talk about reasonable copyrights?
April 9th, 2011 · 5 Comments · opinion
Now, I’m all for author rights — I’m an author myself — but my personal take is that folks like J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer would make out just fine even if their rights to their respective works were limited to just, say, the first 40 years after publication [2037 for Potter, 2045 for Twilight] [...]
Tags:about·can·copyrights·reasonable·talk·we
Disasters, Accidents, and Microsoft – Why you should be using Dropbox
April 9th, 2011 · 14 Comments · opinion
In the past couple months I’ve had to rapidly replace several laptops, and I had to learn the hard way about a “feature” MS introduced with Win7. I have work files that I can’t access at the moment because of this “feature”. You really should be using online services or some content server for critical [...]
Even more bookmarks
April 9th, 2011 · No Comments · books as art, humor
A few weeks ago I posted a picture of a set of bookmarks that I got from Google. Google sent them out to everyone who bought a Google Book. It was a clever little marketing idea that I adore. This week I found another someone else using bookmarks to promote their digital magazine service. the [...]
Open Post Friday
April 8th, 2011 · 15 Comments · blog maintenance
Got a question? Ask. Maybe I can help.
Why DRM Is Like Airport Security
April 7th, 2011 · 3 Comments · opinion
While flying home from Bologna for our TOC event I couldn’t help but think about some of the similarities between digital rights management (DRM) and airport security. Here are a few common points that come to mind:
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