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October 29, 2014

Wednesday News: Twitter tinkers with timelines, Adobe clarifies views on Gamergate, book option deals, and does reading affect relationships

JanetPublishing NewsAdobe / algorithms / Facebook / film adaptation / Gamergate / reading / Relationships / timeline / Twitter39 Comments

If you don’t like algorithmic filters, you’re probably not going to like the future of Twitter – So it looks like Twitter is, indeed, starting to model itself a bit more after Facebook, at least with its anticipated move to algorithmically filtered timelines. Ironically, this change seems to privilege intermittent ... more >

October 24, 2014

Friday News: Adobe supposedly fixes ADE 4, Joan Didion Kickstarter campaign, corporate commentary on Gamergate, and a former slave bests his “master”

JanetPublishing NewsAdobe / crowdsourcing / documentary / DRM / Ebooks / Gamergate / harassment / History / Joan Didion / Misogyny / privacy / racism / slavery17 Comments

Adobe Updates Digital Edition, Stops Sharing User Info With the Internet – Nate Hoffelder reports that Adobe has stopped sending data on the books you’re reading back to Adobe in plain text. Adobe insists that: “Enhanced security for transmitting rights management and licensing validation information. With this latest version of ... more >

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October 10, 2014

Friday News: Kobo nixes tablets, grammar rules you can forget, libraries and Adobe ADE, and Agatha Christie’s jewels

JanetPublishing NewsAdobe / Agatha Christie / auctions / DRM / e-readers / Ebooks / grammar / Kobo / Libraries / privacy / security / Tablets / writing7 Comments

Kobo: tablets ‘no longer a focus’ – So Kobo President Michael Tamblyn has confirmed that Kobo is not going to be developing any more tablets, but will focus on the Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura and the new H2O. Without enough “unique content,” according to analyst Douglas McCabe, Kobo is now ... more >

October 8, 2014

Wednesday News: The Adobe Digital WTF Edition

JanetPublishing NewsAdobe / Ebooks / epub / Libraries / Overdrive / privacy / security27 Comments

Adobe’s e-book reader sends your reading logs back to Adobe—in plain text [Updated] – In what has to be one of the very worst moves in Internet history, Adobe Digital Editions 4 now tracks every book you read and send that information IN PLAIN TEXT back to Adobe. That’s right ... more >

August 28, 2014

Thursday News: Will Apple introduce the iWatch in September, OverDrive’s new and enhanced app, NYPL book recs, and Sanrio’s “cruel trick”

JanetPublishing NewsAdobe / Apple / Hello Kitty / iPhone / iWatch / Libraries / Overdrive / recommendations / Sanrio / smart watch / Smartphone13 Comments

Will Apple unveil the iWatch at the same time as the iPhone 6? – Gigaom picks up on the Re/Code story that claims a September 9th release of the new iWatch, along with the new Apple iPhone models. Gigaom is not so convinced, but it’s an interesting rumor and one ... more >

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February 7, 2014

Friday News: A Tale of Sony and Kobo

JanetPublishing NewsAdobe / Australia / Canada / DRM / epub / Kobo / Rakuten / Sony / Sony Reader Store / UK / US26 Comments

Sony abandons North American eBook stores – You have have heard by now (perhaps by email, if you are a Sony Reader Store customer), that Sony is closing down its US and Canadian Reader Stores. However, in other parts of the world, Sony is still in operation, with no immediate ... more >

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