Chutzpah – the quality of audacity, for good or for bad Dianna Dilworth passed me an email the other day. She’d gotten an email pitch from a new ebookstore, and she didn’t have time to write about it. I’m glad she forwarded it to me because it’s deeply amusing. I’m always in favor of giving [...]
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The Register of Copyrights wants to pursue pirate sites that aren’t breaking US laws
March 16th, 2011 · 3 Comments · opinion
Maria Pallante, the acting Register of Copyrights, testified at a Congressional hearing on Monday. That hearing was the first in a series on “Promoting Investment and Protecting Commerce Online”. If you want, you can watch the hearing here. I wouldn’t, though. The resolution is low on the video and it’s only available in the one [...]
Project Gutenberg – Pirate?
November 29th, 2010 · 13 Comments · piracy
Now this is an interesting story for a Monday morning. The SF author Greg Bear is in the middle of a wrangle with Project Gutenberg (PG) over whether some of his stories are in the public domain. He says no, PG say yes. This story hinges on SF stories originally published in magazines in the [...]
GoodEreader.com – your friendly neighborhood ebook pirate
October 21st, 2010 · 25 Comments · opinion
If you follow ebook news, you might have heard of a site called GoodEreader.com. At first glance it looks like a news site. It has a blog, podcast, and a monthly magazine, and they even opened an e-reader store last week. But all of that is all a facade that they are using to hide [...]
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Confessions of a Book Pirate
January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
There is a really interesting interview over on The Millions. I’m not going to comment; this issue is too polarizing.
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