Tag Archives: digital_rights_management

Weekend Links: Goodbye Romance Novel TV

Sydney Morning Herald has a nice article about romance in conjunction with Beyond Heaving Bosoms, a guide to romance written by SB Sarah and SD Candy.
So thank Eros for two Americans, Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan, who dreamed up Mavis for their book Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches’ Guide to Romance Novels. It’s an [...]

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The International Digital Rights Mess (or Amazon’s Cock Up)

Over the past year, as more and more readers have become interested in ebooks, we’ve begun to realize one of the biggest problems is the mess of territorial rights. We had Fictionwise and BooksonBoard removing books from its bookstore. Fictionwise went so far as removing access to books that people had already purchased.
This past week, [...]

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Link Round Up Tuesday

Borders Group Inc. is trying new things to revive its flagging sales.  The latest is Borders Ink, a department devoted to selling books and merchandise to teens.  By the end of August most of the Borders superstores should have this specialized department.
At a time when book retailing is slumping, young-adult titles and graphic novels are [...]

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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 [...]

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