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Wednesday News: Bodyform reveals the truth about periods; MS Surface pricing and ship date revealed; DMCA takedown notice gone awry; Ancient prosthetics

Wednesday News: Bodyform reveals the truth about periods; MS Surface pricing and ship date revealed; DMCA takedown notice gone awry; Ancient prosthetics

This May Be The Best Response To A Facebook Rant — Period. – An internet troll or comedian or someone named Richard Neill posted a facebook rant about how a Maxipad company lied to him in commercials about a woman’s joyous adventuresome spirit that she adopted during her period. The company created possibly the best(…)

Monday Midday News: Sandra Hyatt Memorial, Sara Douglass passes, Copyright Office Open for Comments

Monday Midday News: Sandra Hyatt Memorial, Sara Douglass passes, Copyright Office Open for Comments

As you will have heard, author Sandra Hyatt (Hyde) died suddenly a few weeks ago. A trust has now been set up in her memory, it’s aim to support a NZ-based romance writer going to a conference here or overseas. Link: http://www.sandrahyatt.com/sandra-hyde-memorial-trust/. ***** Someone is having trouble separating fact from fiction but I’m not convinced(…)

Dealing with Scraping from a Blogger’s Point of View

All About Romance was a victim of plagiarism a week or so ago. A new blogger had taken some reviews of theirs and posted them as her own. This is actually more common than you may think. Many times, blog sites called scrapers will take your RSS feed and republish it entirely under a different(…)

Readers Need Help from Authors and Publishers to Retain Digital eBook Rights

see more Lolcats and funny pictures I am going to get back to Google Book Settlement, I promise, but this Sunday I really wanted to address the topic of ebook ownership given the Orwellian actions of Amazon. For those who are unaware, two weeks ago Amazon failed to notice that two Orwell titles (1984 and(…)

Science Fiction Writer’s Association Dissolves Anti E Piracy Committee

Science Fiction Writer’s Association Dissolves Anti E Piracy Committee If you aren’t a member of the SFWA or a regular reader of that community, you might have missed out on an important development that took place over the last week. The SFWA sent out take down notices under the auspices of the DMCA (the act(…)

With Rumors of Amazon Selling DRM Free Music, Will Books Be Far Behind?

With Rumors of Amazon Selling DRM Free Music, Will Books Be Far Behind?

I received an email this week from a reader who wanted to buy an ebook reader. She wasn’t very familiar with ebooks other than the epublished ones and didn’t know at all about DRM (digital rights management). She wasn’t aware that when you bought a Sony Reader, the books you bought for the Sony Reader(…)