Publishing NewsAmazon / digital rights management / Harlequin / Lauren-Myracle / privacy44 Comments
EFF, a watchdog for internet privacy rights, questioned Amazon about SILK and the use of data to create predictive web browsing patterns. According to the answers given by Amazon to EFF, Amazon does not intercept encrypted traffic and it logs only the URL requested, the timestamp, and token identifying the ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / book-sales / Charlaine Harris / digital rights management / graphic novels61 Comments
Amazon launched its science fiction, fantasy and horror line called 47North. It’s lined up some big names in scifi with the launched of 15 books “including ‘The Mongoliad: Book One,’ the first in the ambitious, five-book, collaborative Foreworld series led by Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear. All of these books ... more >
Publishing NewsAuthor-deaths / digital lending / digital rights management / dmca / Kindle8 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 ... more >
Publishing NewsAbout-Us / book business / brick and mortar / digital rights management / Maya-Banks24 Comments
I can hardly believe it is already Thursday. The holiday shortened week (for the US readers) and last week’s RWA conference has me all mixed up. Hopefully I will get caught up by Sunday. Item number one today is the news that we are going to host a Q&A with ... more >
Publishing Newsdigital rights management / Google eBooks / Kindle32 Comments
Kobo and BN debuted new Touch devices and Kindle popped in to say that its Kindle with special offers is now available in the 3G version. The Kobo at $129. Uses infrared touch technology which means that there are infrared sensors that perceive your finger (or other object) within ... more >
Ebooksdigital publishing / digital rights management20 Comments
I know that there have been people hopeful that DRM would soon fade away, but it won’t and here is why. 1. Growth. Most trade publishers have a vested interest in making ebook adoption difficult. Their profit structure is built on a paper book business and they have not yet ... more >