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Authors Rebel Against Used Books On Amazon
News By "aggressively promoting" sales of used books on its site, Amazon.com is snatching money out of authors' pockets, says a group representing 8,000 published authors. The guild's move comes a year after Amazon began allowing customers to sell used...
[April 11, 2002, 14:58]
Amazon Defends Used Book Sales
News After being criticised by a literary group for selling used books online, Amazon is striking back, recruiting sellers to help it argue that its policy is good for the publishing industry and for readers.
[April 16, 2002, 14:01]
FBI Nabs Russian Expert At DefCon
News The FBI took a Russian encryption expert into custody Monday at his hotel in Las Vegas for allegedly publishing software that cracks a variety of methods used to secure e-books. While Elcom has been careful to stress what it sees as fair-use...
[July 18, 2001, 9:41]
DMCA Case Verdict: Not Guilty
News Both Sklyarov and ElcomSoft President Alexander Katalov testified that they did not think their software was illicit and did not intend for it to be used on books that were not legally purchased. A jury on Tuesday acquitted a Russian software...
[December 18, 2002, 8:08]
Anti-spam Tool Helps Digitise Books
News A group of Carnegie Mellon University programmers has launched a service called "ReCaptcha" that can help cut down on spam while letting people digitise books. The ReCaptcha project is digitising books in the Internet Archive, a project building a...
[May 25, 2007, 13:11]
The Reader
Downloads The Reader is meant to help you easily read text books but can also be used as a tool to help a person learn to read better.Version 1.3 has dramatic speed improvements when opening a booktakes about 1/6th the time it used to take, new option to...
[June 3, 2008, 0:17]
Universities Launch E-book Experiment
News In the trial phase, an average of 30 books at each store will be available in digital form, chosen based on how widely the books are used and on whether the publishers own the digital rights to the texts.
[August 10, 2005, 18:10]
Sony E-book To Use Electronic Ink
News Device makers have also pointed to the clarity and power issues of displays used in previous e-books. E-books were once touted as the future of publishing because, in digitised form, books were easy to distribute and store.
[March 25, 2004, 9:15]
Yahoo Opens Up Address-book Interface
News Yahoo users have stored more than 500 million address books and the service is used by more than 150 million unique users each month, Yeh said. A lot of our address books [are] constantly being updated.
[June 5, 2008, 8:32]
Growing Pains For Amazon's Used Goods
News A week later, the used-goods section had problems after The Authors Guild accused Amazon of undercutting sales of new books by "aggressively promoting" the sale of cheaper used books, for which authors receive no money.
[April 23, 2002, 15:02]
ElcomSoft: Software Could Be Used For 'bad Purposes'
News Russian software company ElcomSoft faces five criminal counts related to offering and marketing software that can be used to crack Adobe Systems' eBooks, or electronic copies of paper books. Also, it was not clear what the people in question...
[December 6, 2002, 11:56]
'Free Dmitri' Protests Gathers Little London Support
News The Russian encryption expert was arrested in Las Vegas by the FBI two weeks ago, for allegedly publishing software that cracks a variety of methods used to secure e-books and Adobe's PDF format. Article 6 of the directive includes a technical...
[July 31, 2001, 13:53]
Amazon: No Kindle For The UK Yet
News The Kindle's internal memory can store up to 200 books, and it's expandable via an SD slot (which can also be used to load additional media). Books and other content are available for direct download, without the need for connecting to a PC (though...
[November 20, 2007, 10:14]
News Schmooze: No-frills Broadband Draws ISP Ire
News It turns out that the Internet might not be such a good thing for authors, at least not when it is used to promote the nefarious practice of selling used books. Authors rebel against used books on Amazon
[April 12, 2002, 16:57]
Dreamweaver 4 review
Reviews Usefully, these books are linked to the code window, so they can be used to explain a currently highlighted word or term. Dreamweaver comes with a comprehensive 600-page printed manual and three O'Reilly reference books -- on HTML, CSS and...
[January 10, 2001, 23:00]
Photos: Old PCs Help Africa's Blind
News In the past, most of the access to information has been through Braille books and paper, according to Martin Kieti. The charity is now in discussion with publishers about getting access to raw texts of books, including government textbooks, for...
[February 13, 2007, 15:47]
Australian University Leading Global Storage Charge
News Australia's Deakin University has become the first organisation in the world to roll out a mega-storage solution capable of housing the equivalent of 270 million books, with enough room left over to hold five million MP3 songs.
[September 7, 2001, 9:39]
Use These Tips To Plan A Successful Certification Campaign
News Some members recommend spending only 30 to 45 minutes at a stretch with your books and then taking a break. Eckel also suggests multitasking by reading during business travel or listening to books on tape while exercising.
[March 28, 2003, 11:39]
Google Side-steps AI Rumours
News Google has been quizzed about rumours that its current quest to digitise books may be about more than simply making literature available online, but the search giant is being non-committal on the subject.
[November 15, 2005, 15:00]
BooKu Reader For Symbian
Downloads BooKu Reader is a powerful portable e-book reader that could be used to read books of TBM formats. We offer e-book maker and downloading of thousands of e-books, currently the number of which keeps increasing.
[January 11, 2008, 22:01]
