JanePublishing Newsdigital rights management / digital_music_industry / Ebooks / piracy1 Comments

This is a fascinating interview by Billboard with Hilary Rosen who was the industry head of RIAA at the time that Napster got shut down. She resigned in 2003. The take away from the article is that digital downloads brings the consumer closer to the manufacturers of the product and ... more >

JanetEbooks / Letters of Opiniondigital rights management / first-sale / intellectual property / Intellectual Property Issues13 Comments

Sunday Pop Quiz How many books are currently in the public domain and available online? About 10,000 About 50,000 100,000 + Another easy one? The answer is C, at least according to Project Gutenberg, where you can access more than 100,000 books between PG and its various partners and affiliates. ... more >

JaneBook Reviewsbook-sales / Borders / digital rights management / Google Book Settlement / Orbit7 Comments

In a not so tom foolery post, Mark Sarvas posts a beautiful in memoriam for his father.   Thanks Elizabeth. Borders does Lisa Kleypas in its new “True Romance” feature.   (Borders needs an embed element). BooksonBoard now offers a new eBook or audio book special every 24 hours! Follow BooksonBoard on ... more >

JanePublishing Newsdigital rights management12 Comments

Inspired by SB Sarah’s rant against DRM last week, Heather of The Galaxy Express compiled a DRM Free publisher list. She has a nice little code box where bloggers can copy and paste the text. Have any to add? Let us know. Amber Quill Changeling Press, LLC Cobblestone Press Dreamspinner ... more >

JaneFeaturesApple / digital rights management / iPhone / Newspapers4 Comments

Everyone but everyone is laying off people: Google, Sony, Microsoft, Intel, Motorola, and on and on.   Almost 200,000 tech jobs lost since August 2008.   Everyone is laying off, that is except for Apple who posted a record profit of $1.6 billion  for the last quarter having sold    4.3M iPhones as well as ... more >

JaneEbooksdigital rights management / Hachette/Grand Central24 Comments

From Teleread.org comes this disturbing news: "Overdrive, Mobipocket Paris, and Ingram Digital have all told us Hachette is pulling them from the feeds," Bob told me in a 4:13 a.m. update. "All the resellers may not have completed all catalog updates yet. I know that we’re auditing our updates-to make ... more >